All covered up and ready to plant!

compost tops cut cover crops

We finally got the garden beds completely covered with fresh yard-debris compost; the pathways were also topped off with new cedar chips. (it just looks yummy!)

Over the next couple weeks, these beds will compost down and settle to about 1/2 of their height right now.

A couple of the beds were seeded with 'Bulls Blood' beets and 'Black Seeded Simpson' lettuce.



fresh cedar chips for garden pathways



The next few weeks will find us planting 'Early Jersey Wakefield' cabbage, 'Boston Marrow' winter squash, 'Bloody Butcher' corn, 'Scarlet Runner' beans, 'Ozette' potatoes, multiplier onions, and a couple 'Large Red' tomato plants.

We are very excited to get growing this year! We have scaled back our plantings to these few choice varieties and with the addition of our new garden bed, we anticipate growing enough produce to donate to a local food bank or other charitable organization.

THANK YOU to our friends at CLACKAMAS LANDSCAPE SUPPLY for donating the compost and cedar chips for our garden!