Watch the video to see what we do with the containers once they are made.
Sorry for part of this video that is duplicated.
Watch the video to see what we do with the containers once they are made.
Sorry for part of this video that is duplicated.
Watch this little video and then help us make these for our gardens.
We always make at least 2000 of these containers.
They come together fast and easy.
You can make these at home.
What is needed:
NOTE: We don't put the soil or seed in the container at this point.
To receive bagels on Thursday, please contact Courtney: (310) 809-2575 or email: govecon@gmail.com
if possible, so you can arrange a time with her to pick up.
There is a wide assortment of flavors available!
She lives in the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City.
You'll receive her exact address once you talk with her.
She usually picks them up after 12 noon, so they are available by 2 pm on Thursdays.
It's February and we are cleaning up all of our gardens from the fall and winter.
Here are a few tips for recycling materials back into your garden.
Adding some of these products to your compost pile will attract rats, raccoons and insects.
For optimal composting, materials should be smaller than 2 inches. These will compost much faster than larger items.
We compost leaves that are much larger than 2 inches but we gather them up, take them to some of our larger gardens, drizzle them over the soil, then till them into the soil, which helps to chop them up into smaller pieces, which helps the composting process move much faster.
You can make a pile, a box, a bin, a barrel, etc. to keep your compost in but...
This will allow your compost to get more air, water and bacteria from the soil, helping it to break down much faster than it would in a bin, barrel, pile or box.
How to know when your compost is ready?
Compost is ready when it is:
This is what we will be doing in the gardens between Valentine's Day and President's Day (Feb. 14 - 22).
Come and help us and enjoy super delicious Sugar Snap Peas in May!!!
It's February 10th, the weather has been unseasonably warm lately so we are excited to get things rolling.... in more gardens!
In our Holladay gardens, for example, we have been working since Feb. 1st, cleaning up our garden space from the fall and debris from winter.
Since this is the beginning of our new gardening season, we want a clean garden to start working in.
Any leftover leaves, branches, debris, etc. should be cleaned out so your new garden is ready to go.
In Holladay, we have been getting a lot of salad greens planted in the greenhouse. Everyone will be able to enjoy these early crops that should be ready to eat by the end of March. If you come and work in Holladay this week, you may be helping us plant.
Outside the greenhouse we are preparing to plant a ton of peas. I generally do this between Valentine's Day and Presidents Day (Feb. 14 - 22). In some of our other gardens in the valley, you can be doing the same thing.
Come and work with us in Holladay to learn how to Plant Peas OR watch my PEA PLANTING VIDEO I made recently.
All of our East Side gardens will have early spring crops planted soon along with Riverton, West Valley and a few other gardens.
Due to the large size of some of our West Side gardens, we bring in a tractor to plow our soil before we plant. This means our land needs to be clean and clear of anything growing in them until after they plow.
These properties include all 3 of our South Jordan Gardens, Taylorsville and West Jordan Garden. That still gives us plenty of other gardens to get our early crops in.
For the larger gardens, the homeowners have already arranged for a tractor to come and till.
There is not a set date for when this happens. They know when the time is right, based on the weather and season and will let us know when we can begin planting.
This website is an excellent guide for those living here in Northern Utah, who want to know WHEN to plant certain crops.
This will give you an idea of what we are planting in our gardens throughout the year.
In our Holladay greenhouse garden, we can plant most of these crops a month earlier in most cases, because of our fantastic high tunnel cold frame greenhouse.
All of this may be done before Wednesday, but the big focus is in Holladay right now.
We'll be moving in to more gardens soon but Holladay gardens are always our first ones to be planted.
Top priority chores:
Finish planting the rest of the "salad makings" in the greenhouse which will include arugela, spinach, and other dark green leafy lettuces.
Clean up all of the leaves from the compost area and other parts of the yard, put leaves into white storage buckets to be transported to another larger garden which will then be tilled into the soil in preparation of our spring planting.
Prepare, clean and straighten all of the pea garden area and fences, in preparation of planting peas in the ground starting Feb. 13 and 22.
I'll be posting additional Garden Work times soon, including Monday afternoon, 2 - 4 pm. RSVP if you can come.
The first 10 workers will each receive a delicious loaf of Artisan Bread!
A big thanks to Tiffiny for working so long in the greenhouse today! For over 4 hours she planted a bunch of Swiss Chard and lettuce in half of our large 1200 sq ft greenhouse. We will begin enjoying this delicious harvest before March 31!
She was able to finish getting a bunch of organic debris off the garlic, which is growing very nicely outside the greenhouse, so we can start eating it within another week!
People are surprised to hear how much work there is to do in a garden in February.
There is PLENTY of work to be done inside a greenhouse AND outside in the yard, right now.
We try to take advantage of these warmer days like today, that feel more like spring than winter.
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