{"id":940,"date":"2013-05-11T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2014-08-07T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:19:07","slug":"finally-springtime-and-the-garden-is-planted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Finally! Springtime, and the garden is planted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 4th was the ‘official’ Opening Day at the Roseville Community Garden<\/a>, and I’ve got my plot 95% complete!<\/h4>\n

I was anxious to get a jump on the season, so on April 6th \u2013 the first Saturday the garden was open for ‘pre-season’ activity \u2013 I arrived bright & early, hauled in a half dozen wheel-barrows of\u00a0 fresh topsoil and fired up the Bolens roto-tiller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden on April 6, 2013: cleaned, tilled and all ready for the 2013 gardening season. Click image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Over the past four weeks I’ve been busy digging in the dirt while proceeding according to the well-thought and eagerly anticipated 2013 ‘Garden Plan’ for Plot 63. A plan that started while laying on the sofa watching a crackling fire (and listening to a crackling transistor radio) during the power outage in the week after Sandy, reflecting on the things learned \u2013 both good<\/a> and bad<\/a> \u2013 over the summer of 2012.<\/p>\n

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‘The Plan’ was then modified slightly when the Burpee Seed Catalog showed up in January, and a half dozen times since, right up to the moment I planted the various rows and hills and patches of seeds, shaking in a little bit of Miracle Gro Shake and Feed<\/a> to give the seeds a better start. Here’s what the ‘planting map’ ended up looking like:<\/p>\n

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The ‘planting map’ for Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden, May 4, 2013. Click image to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n

I tried to optimize the space by planting early season radishes between rows of slower growing later season vegetables like Swiss Chard, beets, and numerous varieties of squash. The only things not yet planted are the three variety of peppers that I’ve started in seed starter kits, which will go into an area now growing and planned for two plantings of radish (at the bottom of the map) while the peppers grow big enough to transplant.<\/p>\n

I decided to roll the dice and plant my tomatoes early \u2013 on April 27th, since I got such a deal on the plants (5 for $10) that I felt the risk of another frost was worth taking to have tomatoes on the Fourth of July! Fingers crossed! Here’s the now familiar ‘baseline’ photograph of the garden for the first weekly update.<\/p>\n

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Plot 63 at the Roseville Community Garden om May 4th, 2013…the ‘official’ opening day for the 2013 season. Click photo to enlarge.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Here are links to this year’s crop of garden flowers, herbs & vegetables:<\/h4>\n

Flowers:<\/h4>\n

Solar Flare Sunflower
\n<\/a>State Fair Giant Zinnia<\/a><\/p>\n

Herbs:<\/h4>\n

Sweet Basil<\/a>
\nFernleaf Dill<\/a>
\nFlat Italian Parsley<\/a><\/p>\n

Vegetables:<\/h4>\n

Chioggia Beets<\/a>
\nDetroit Dark Red Morse\u2019s Strain Beets<\/a>
\nEarly Wonder Beets<\/a>
\nSweet Treat Carrots<\/a>
\nBushmaster Green Beans<\/a>
\nCherry Belle Radish<\/a>
\nCrimson Giant Radish<\/a>
\nFrench Breakfast Radish<\/a>
\nShort Top Icicle White Radish<\/a>
\nPink Beauty Radish<\/a>
\nNeon Lights Mix Swiss Chard<\/a>
\nRuby Red Swiss Chard<\/a>
\nBlack Seeded Lettuce<\/a>
\nEarly Prolific Straightneck Squash<\/a>
\nBlack Beauty Summer Squash<\/a>
\nWaltham Butternut Squash<\/a>
\nEarly Acorn Squash<\/a>
\nSweet Red Peppers<\/a>
\nHot Jalapeno Peppers<\/a>
\nPepperochini Hot Peppers<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomatoes<\/h4>\n

Red Beefsteak Heirloom Tomato<\/a>
\nSuper Fantastic Tomato<\/a>
\nSuper Sweet 100 Tomato<\/a>
\nMr. Stripey Heirloom Tomato<\/a>
\nLemon Boy Yellow Tomato<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch for more updates in the days and weeks to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 4th was the ‘official’ Opening Day at the Roseville Community Garden, and I’ve got my plot 95% complete! <\/p>\n

I was anxious to get a jump on the season, so on April 6th \u2013 the first Saturday the garden was open for ‘pre-season’ activity \u2013 I arrived bright & early, hauled in a half dozen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[112,159,109,108],"tags":[358,163,114,236,113,235],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nL7w-fa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}