I was lucky to inherit a community garden plot for one year (July to June, an odd growing season but I'll take what I can get!).
July
Plot as inherited: remnants of a mostly bolted veggie garden used for summer camp activities in mid-June.
Then August happened. So hot and humid that after a few weeks of neglect, the weeds had taken over
September: gettin' in gear:
After weeding for days, I performed a "pseudo-double-dig". Not a proper one, just enough mixing to loosen things up and blend in a small mixture of local compost.
4 beds:
Bed 1: mesculin lettuce and kale
Bed 2: carrots and radishes and green onions
Bed 3 and 4: To be planted with cover crop and then harvested to create "green manure" in the spring
October: Now for some weed control and aesthetics:
Hay is easy to come by this season, and makes a pleasing weed suppressant. First the ground around the beds was covered with newspaper, then with hay. The lettuce and kale are dotting the beds, after a trial at succession sowing, two weeks after the initial planting, I added the rest of my lettuce (and radish) packets. The radishes and carrots are starting to sprout and beds 3 and 4 wait patiently for the clover to be planted shortly.
And we're on our way!
