{"id":389,"date":"2012-06-25T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:44:44","slug":"garden-update-radish-vs-weeds-radishes-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Garden Update: Radish vs. weeds, radishes winning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_390\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0120sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-390 \" title=\"IMG_0120sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0120sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Radish harvest\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0120sm-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0120sm-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0120sm-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0120sm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Approximately four dozen tasty radishes harvested on June 22nd.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I fell a little behind the past week in doing my garden update, so I have some catching up to do. When <a title=\"Garden Update: Who\u2019ll stop the rain?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=344\" target=\"_blank\">I last posted<\/a>, I was lamenting the rain and issues it caused in the garden. Well it&#8217;s now day 35 of the garden project, and the first products of the rains (besides the massive weed growth) are ready for harvest!<\/p>\n<p>On the 15th of June, I pulled the first dozen or so red radishes from the ground, did much more weeding (and only achieved 33% complete status) and was happy with how things are looking, overall.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already reached some conclusions on what needs to be done next year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plant earlier overall, and lettuce &amp; spinach definitely much earlier. It is amazing how far ahead of me the produce is in some of my neighbors at the <a title=\"Roseville Community Garden\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=202881980299043394739.0004c0845c827af63688f&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=40.984013,-74.725099&amp;spn=0.021058,0.035834\" target=\"_blank\">Roseville Community Garden<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Weed earlier and far more aggressively, even if it means pulling a few sprouting seedlings with the weeds. The longer the wait, the harder to differentiate between the two!<\/li>\n<li>Start more seedlings indoors and earlier next season, and pare down the variety of produce I plant based on what has been successful so far.<\/li>\n<li>Where not feasible to start indoors, plant nursery-started items for some produce. I&#8217;ve had a hard time getting cucumber plants to germinate or survive from two rounds of seedings I&#8217;ve already done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_394\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0099sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-394 \" title=\"IMG_0099sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0099sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Plot #63 on June 15, 2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0099sm-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0099sm-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0099sm-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0099sm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rains bring radishes. And more weeds! This June 15, 2012 photo shows the status of my Roseville Community Garden plot.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since I missed posting last week, here is a hot of how the garden looked on June 15, 2012. I spent another 5-6 hours over the weekend pulling more weeds and got them removed from just over 50% of the garden &#8211; while stragglers continue to pop up in already completed portions.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that <a title=\"Weeds Rule the World!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=330\" target=\"_blank\">weeds are ruling the world<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the week of the 17-22nd, I made short stops to water and do maintenance weeding of already cleared areas, and returned on the night of the 23rd to attack the next major weed stronghold: my beets, broccoli, spinach and Swiss chard rows. It was ugly-muddy, as we&#8217;d had a massive rain Friday night, but that also helped make it easier to pluck the offending squatters from the soil.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of hours, as night and the mosquitoes descended on the garden, I&#8217;d rid about 75% of the garden of unwanted growth. One more endurance session of kneeling and bending and I should have the worst of the weeds defeated! Oh to be 30 and have healthy knees again!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting excited at the so-far successful growth of some of the things I planted. The radishes have produced spectacularly. My rows of fennel are coming along quite nicely, as are all the pepper plants that I had almost given up on as seedlings. I should be in &#8220;pepper heaven&#8221; come late July and August. And the tomatoes have grown thick and wildly, with tons of flowers and fruit already appearing on several of the plants. I am anxiously awaiting that first home-grown tomato of the season. &#8220;I love the taste of homegrown tomatoes in the summer&#8230;it tastes like victory!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_399\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0130sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-399 \" title=\"IMG_0130sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0130sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Plot #63 June 23, 2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0130sm-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0130sm-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0130sm-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0130sm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The most current image of my Roseville Community Garden plot, taken Saturday, June 23, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Herbs are another story. Except for the basil, the other herbs I planted from seed: parsley, rosemary and thyme have been no-shows, a victim of the first flooding downpours after planting.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line? As you can see in the photo on the right, things are looking good after 35 days.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how much the garden has changed since I <a title=\"Roseville Community Garden plot #63 - May 19, 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0062sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">took this photo<\/a> after preparing the garden for planting on May 19, 2012. And I&#8217;ve harvested my first crop (only about half of it!) of radishes, had the opportunity to share them with neighbors and enjoy them myself &#8211; the hard work is paying off. But let me tell you, it&#8217;s far harder work than I imagined, and I&#8217;m not doing near as good a job as some of my garden neighbors. But that will be a topic for an upcoming blog post &#8211; a Tour of the Farm &#8211; in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one last thing. I found a potato in a bag I had just purchased that had started sprouting &#8220;eyes,&#8221; and rather than toss it out or cut the eyes out, I halved it and planted it in the garden during the first week of June. Guess what? It&#8217;s growing! So it looks like I may have potatoes to harvest come fall &#8211; we&#8217;ll have to see how that goes. Below is a photo of the new potato growth sprouting in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading along in my garden adventure &#8211; see you next post!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_402\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0128sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-402 \" title=\"IMG_0128sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0128sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"You say Potato...\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0128sm-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0128sm-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0128sm-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0128sm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sprouting potato plant in plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden, taken June 23, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Approximately four dozen tasty radishes harvested on June 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>I fell a little behind the past week in doing my garden update, so I have some catching up to do. 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