Come back quick, students!

CJA students, come back quick!  There's lots to eat in the garden!

Our second planting of beets, chard, and carrots are doing well.

Tomatoes will be ripe before long.

Basil has all grown back since our last harvest.

Look at those beans go!  Flowers are developing, so harvest time is just around the corner.

Mint is going strong.

We harvested seeds from arugula and spinach and planted them.  They are developing well.

Red cabbage looking great.

This arugula seeded itself!  We didn't have to do a thing.

This Delicata squash may be the only one we get this year.  Our squash plants got hit by powdery mildew.

Melons are looking good though.

These Shittake mushrooms are a few days past perfect, but they will still be very tasty!

Powdery mildew on squash

Our squash plants have been afflicted with powdery mildew.  We may have planted them too close together.  It may be because we had a problem with our irrigation system in their early stages of growth.  We may just have gotten unlucky.  A few more squashes may ripen this year (you can see that the newest leaves are green and healthy), but we'll have to learn from this an hope for the best next year.

Garlic Harvest

It's time to harvest garlic!

See the browning leaves?  That means that each of the individual cloves we planted in October has matured into a full head of garlic.

A freshly dug head

The crop curing under the eave of the chicken coop.

We'll sell or eat six of the seven heads, and save the last one to plant again in the fall.