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| Snow peas! |
The spring has brought its share of challenges, beginning with earlier than normal warm weather in February, drought, and killing frost in March.
Lately we've been so busy in the garden we haven't had time to post.
Overall the weather enabled us to clean
up the garden and prepare the beds. We harvested most of the winter onions as green, leaving some to mature along with garlic which we had also planted last fall.
The first spring crop to be planted was snow peas, and we built an improved pea support using bamboo. Working with bamboo was another challenge, but it did go up and is serving its purpose.
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| Snow peas support |
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| Red and Green Kale |
The drought slowed germination and growth of crops. Timely rains have finally arrived, and now that frost danger is past we'll have our irrigation on again. We have an abundance of greens and have begun harvesting lettuce, spinach, kale and snow peas. We are grateful for the abundance of early produce.
Our current challenge is cabbage loopers which are raising havoc with some cabbage, but we are working to limit the damage using BT a biological control.
There is never a dull moment at Koinonia Community Garden.
