Early Spring (mid to late May)

Here are some pictures of the garden in Early Spring. By "Early Spring" Waite means mid-to-late May. He usually does not put out frost-sensitive plants until the first week in June, althought sometimes he puts out a few and takes the chance on a late frost.

As of May 30, he had set out only 1 hill of watermelon and about 15 small Thai Basil plants.

On the right, above, is a row of Azuki beans. The rest of this area consists of two rows each of Magic Molly, French Red Fingerlings and Kennebec potatoes. All are planted very close together. This plot will be for harvesting of early potatoes, starting probably about the first of July.

This area was coated in about 6 inches of compost and then seeded (by broadcasting) to Danvers carrots. Note the rake marks; Waite loves these. Buddy snuck into this shot too.

Here are 12 hills (all made of pure compost) of a new variety Waite is trying this year: Emerald Bush Buttercut Squash - four seeded planted per hill. Note the area is very heavily mulched. There should be no need to weed this section except for the hills.

In the far right there are Walla-Walla onions. He only got 270 plants this year even though he ordered 600. The rows on the left are leeks. They're looking a little anemic in this shot but that's because they've only been in the ground about 5 days. They'll perk up in due course. He got 600 leek plants. Most are in this photo but he also has another plot where he planted them very close together for early harvest during the summer.

Here's another no-till area. It's been planted to 7 rows of Marketmore 76 Cucumbers.

This area is all Blue Lake Beans - about 1/2 ounce of seed. Waite has another 1/2 ounce to plant later (so harvests are staggered) and also have a half ounce of Haricot Vert to plant.

Here is a shot of two more no-till areas. The one in the foreground has 6 types of lettuce. The one in the background has three kinds of a lettuce and three rows of cabbage. Waite will be staggering plantings of lettuce throughout the summer.

This area is seeded to Sweet Mama Squash.