Shared Garden 2024

Donna is enjoying a 2-week trip to Australia right now, so we missed her while putting in the garden. The weeds were in bad shape and it took a lot of time to clear them- we decided we really need to cover the beds with plastic next fall to limit weed growth. We decided to rotate crops in the beds, which required the moving of our posts and support fencing. We also did some perimeter fence repair.

After significant weeding, the beds were in shape for planting. Andy is especially excited to be planting a total of 12 celery root plants. We also installed a drip irrigation system that Dawn has had for years and swears by.

Lots of weeds

This year's plan. Top is street-side

All planted. Harriet oversaw the work

Weeding and tying tomato plants, June 30

Early August

Watermelon

We canned tomato sauce and had to figure out a few new workflows on the induction stove. We remembered to use the ricer, but we still could have cooked down the sauce more after ricing it. One of the 7 quarts broke as soon as I put it into the water canner, so we ended up with 6 quarts.

Canning tomato sauce

Making homemade tomato soup and sausages