Monday, September 20, 2010

Today at the Garden: Planting Cover Crops

Above is a photo of our Monday, Garden Skill Share. This week at the garden we had 11 participants in the our garden skill shares, 10 for addiction recovery support group, 4 for the veterans support group and 1 for trauma care.
Ilyse enjoys the flowers growing from the peas that are growing up the fence.
We had a large harvest of carrots!
And we got a new "to do" list board to help all the garden volunteers know what needs to be done each week.
We planted Cover Crops:
Above is a photo of the mix we used.
Finn, our garden educator, shows our garden members and interns how to turn over and prepare the soil.
Then, the seeds are scattered over the soil.
Here's a photo of what it looks like, so you can see about how many seeds we scattered. Then, we gently raked the seeds to cover them with soil.
The photo above is of some of the flower seeds we scattered the previous week, that are starting to peek out of the soil.
We,'ve also started adding these beautifully simple signs to our beds so that we can let people know what we've planted.

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