Waite's Garden

End of Season

2009-11-25T07:05:00.003-05:00

These are the last shots of the garden for the 2009 Season. The garden is now ready for snow.

From top to bottom:

-One of three bulk containment areas for leaves. In the foreground you can see part of the leeks that are being left in the ground over the Winter.

-Remaining leeks. These have been re-mulched and will spend the Winter, the hope being they will be useable in the Spring.

-One section of blueberries with a fresh layer of pine needle mulch.

-View of one mulched area. This is where the beans were this year.

-Asparagus patch in the background. The patch has been fertilized with Pro-Gro organic fertilizer, coated with wood ashes and then covered with leaves.

-Northwest section of the garden with another bulk containment area for leaves. The tilled ground has been planted to winter rye as cover crop.

-Between the bags on the left and the string on the right is a new area prepared for next year. The area has been coated with shredded leaves.

-Another view of the northwest corner of the garden, this one looking southeast.

-On the right is one of two sections of garlic planted in November. This area has been coated with straw that came from a cover crop of oats. You can see the remains of the oats in the upper left of the picture.

-View of access route to the northeast corner of the garden. The remnants of the oats cover crop are visible in the upper middle of the picture.

Panoramic View November 2009

2009-11-05T10:26:00.004-05:00

Here are two shots showing a panoramic view of the garden. That's Waite's house in the background.

You have to look closely, but you can see the bags of leaves. They're pretty small in these pictures.

The blue barrels are used for weeds. They're 55-gallon drums. The weeds go in, but they don't get out.

Annual Gathering of Leaves 2009

2009-10-28T08:29:00.003-04:00

Here are some pictures of Waite's leaf-gathering efforts in 2009. The pictures were taken the 27th of October.

From the top down:

-The pile of bags to the right will be staged around the garden for easier access in next year's garden. They will also be placed in areas to suppress emergence of weeds in the Spring. You can see some green leeks still in the ground.

-Here is a bulk containment area. It has chicken wire on the sides and bags of leaves at each end. Waite has 5 or 6 containment areas located throughout the garden.

-This is a sub-section of Waite's garden with bags of leaves around the perimeter. This is the area where he had beans last year.

-This is a general view of the northwest part of the garden. You can see that the oats (planted as a cover crop) are still green. Waite will cut them down and use the resulting straw for mulch on his garlic bed.

-Here is a picture showing the placement of bags of leaves and a couple of beds enclosed with cedar boards.

-Here is another picture of the bags piled as Waite delivers them to the field. These will be placed around the garden, not left in this large pile.

Apples To Cider

2009-10-06T08:53:00.005-04:00

A few years ago Waite and friend of his went 50-50 on a hand-crank cider press. Their first step was to install an old washing machine motor to drive the chopper. The chopper cuts up the apples for more efficient pressing.

The sequence of pictures somehow got reversed when I posted them. The following descriptions apply from the bottom up:

-Apples staged in Waite's garage. All the apples he gathers are free. He exchanges permission to pick the apples for cider and applesauce. (He presses the apples. His wife makes the applesauce.) Strangely enough, most people with apple trees do nothing with the apples and so are happy to make the trade. When making cider, it's a good practice to let the apples sit for a week to 10 tens after picking. This increases the sugar content.

-The set up: This picture shows everything ready to press. The cider press is on the right; you can see the old washing machine motor. The chopper box is on the upper left of the press. A crate of apples sits ready to be processed. To the left is a work table. Each crate of apples will produce approximately 1 gallon of cider.

-Here is a close up of the apples. Waite keeps track of which apples are which so that he can return the proper cider to the people who own the apples.

-This is a picture of the chopper. The motor spins it fairly rapidly and apples are chopped fairly quickly. He has to be careful not to put too many apples at one time. It takes about 5 minutes to feed a crate of apples through. He will usually put two crates through the chopper before pressing.

-This what the apples look like after going through the chopper. The apples here are the result of chopping one crate of apples.

-This picture shows the press plate installed over the chopped apples. In this case he is pressing only one crate of apples. The pressing mechanism is turned by hand. You can see a large threaded rod in the second picture. In this picture if you look closely you can see juice beginning to ooze out.

-Here the juice is flowing out of a hole in the bottom plate and into a collection container. Note the small pieces of chopped apple laying about.

-This is some of the finished product. From the collection pan, the cider is poured through a very fine mesh strainer into a funnel and into the bottles. These are some of the containers that he returns to the owners of the apples, gives to friends, and keeps for his own drinking.

-The final picture shows "cider for the big boys." This is a 6 gallon carboy destined to become hard cider. So far (October 5, 2009) he has three carboys filled and plans on doing at least 3 more, giving him a total of 36 gallons of hard cider for the coming Winter. The final total will be less than 36 gallons after racking over from primary to secondary fermentation.

One part not shown in this sequence is the pumice - what's left over after extraction of the juice. He takes the pumice to his neighbor Clem for feeding to the pigs. The pigs eat exceedingly well this time of year: free pumice, free fresh field corn, free garden residue and purchased grain.

Winding Down: Sept. 30, 2009

2009-10-02T08:56:00.004-04:00

It's that time of year to start winding down the garden.

From top to bottom:

-Squash, beans, tomatoes and cucumbers are done and the plants have been removed. Some leeks and arugual remain.

-There are quite a few leeks stil in the ground.

-The grapes are ripening.

-In the upper right you can still see some oats planted as a cover crop. Plants in the center background are tobacco.

-General view with most crops removed. Note the amount of leaf mulch remaining on the ground. Yes, that is a small patch of the weeds in the foreground.

Moose Tubers Spud Trials

2009-08-25T07:27:00.003-04:00

Waite participates in Spud Trials for Moose Tubers in Waterville, Maine. Moose Tubers is a subsidary of Fedco Seeds, where he gets his seeds every year. You can check them on line at http://www.fedcoseeds.com/

He harvested the Spud Trials plot August 21 and prepared some photographs to include in his final report to Moose Tubers. These are pictures of the varieties he grew this year. The potatoes are now out to friends and neighbors for taste-testing as he needs to include information on taste and texture in his final report.

Update August 15, 2009

2009-08-21T09:24:00.002-04:00

These pictures were taken August 15, 2009.

From top to bottom:

-Fleet Bicolor Corn almost ready

-Fourth planting of lettuce. From left to right: Jericho, Simpson Black Seeded, Green Leaf Ice, Web's Wonder Head (2 rows) and Jericho.

-Section of oats cut down. This section was covered with oats as a cover crop. On the right side of the cleared area Waite put down three 30-gallon totes of wood savings and chicken manure from the chicken operation with his neighbor, Clem. He then raked the oats from the left side over the chicken manure. He will plant this section next year to a food crop of some type, probably squash.

-In the center are two rows of Blue Lake Beans. On the far left you can see part of the buckwheat cover crop. Between the buckwheat and the beans is a row of cornichon cucumbers.

To the right of the beans is a section of Amish Paste Tomatoes.

General Views July 12, 2009

2009-07-13T07:06:00.002-04:00

July 8, 2009: Things are Gaining

2009-07-08T11:23:00.005-04:00

Above are pictures taken July 8, 2009. There has been significant growth since the last pictures posted on June 25. From top to bottom:

-Section of Amish Paste tomatoes.

-Section of Sweet Basil. These were broadcast sown, not planted in rows.

-Market More 76 Slicing Cucumbers

-Blueberries slowly ripening

-Blossoms on some potatoes

-Watermelons are finally starting to send out vines

-Blue Lake Beans have buds not visible in the picture. There should be blossoms open within the a few days

-Moose Tuber Spud trials section. Some of the plants in this section have buds.

-Early potato section. This section has two rows each of Magic Molly, French Fingerling and Kennebec.

Dawn and Lewis' Garden

2009-06-25T09:13:00.004-04:00

Waite was down near our garden the other day with his Troy-Bilt tiller and went through unplanted sections of our garden as the weeds were starting to get away from us.

Here's a picture of the result.

Spud Trials and Mulching

2009-06-25T07:42:00.008-04:00

Waite worked on mulching the Moose Tubers Spud Trial plot. He put split-leaf maple on the tops and sides of the hills. Next he will fill in between the rows with other bags of leaves. There is one picture of the Spud Trials looking north and another looking south. The third picture is of Blue Lake Beans, where the mulching is complete.

2009-06-23T18:11:00.006-04:00

Below, freshly hilled Kennebec potatoes. These are coming in very, very nicely this year. The Kennebecs are not part of the Moose Tuber Spud Trial Potaotes.

Above, Blue Lake beans, all completely mulched and coming into their own very rapidly.

It's Not All Vegetables

2009-06-21T07:35:00.004-04:00

While Waite grows an extensive garden, he is most definitely not a vegetarian. In fact he doesn't like too many vegetables; he just likes to grow them. He works with his neighbor, Clem, raising pigs and chickens to supply meat for the long Vermont winters. Clem has a small barn and likes to raise animals. He doesn't like to garden and so he and his wife get all their vegetables for their own consumption from Waite's garden in exchange for use of his barn for the pigs and the chickens.

On June 19 Waite and Clem butchered 26 chickens...well, actually 25, because, as it turned out after some investigative and tracking work by Clem, Clem's dog somehow managed to grab and run off with a beheaded chicken without anybody's noticing it.

Here are some shots of the operation.

From the upper left to the right:

A chicken being removed from the plucker. The plucker is motorized and can pluck two chickens in less than a minute.

Clem (left) and Glenn Cole -owner of the equipment- load two chickens into the killing cones. The dog in the middle left of this picture is the one that managed to sneak off with a chicken. If you look close you can see it's scheming something.

Picture of the plucker.

The set up: Killing cones (orange) are in the background; in the center is a tub of water heated to 150 degrees F (water temperature is critical for proper plucking); in the foreground is the plucker. On the back of the red pick up truck are two boxes of 2-gallon freezer bags.

A picture of the flock just before the operation commenced.

The chickens are Cornish X, a hybrid. They are only about 7 weeks old. Dressed weight ranged from 3.9 lbs. to 6.4 pounds. Most of them were just over 5 pounds, perfect roasting chickens.

Clem and Waite have another 50 day-old chicks arriving Monday, June 22. Between the two flocks, Waite will have a year's supply of chicken.

June 8th

2009-06-15T18:22:00.006-04:00

To the left is a section of Blue Lake beans. The string lines have been removed and the beans have been mostly mulched.

Below is a shot of emerging potatoes. This section contains two rows each of French red fingerlings, Magic Molly (purple) and Kennebec (white). Each row is planted very compactly and these potatoes will all be harvested as baby potatoes.

Below is a picture of one section of tomatoes. They're a little hard to see with all the mulch. There are 4 rows, each 60 feet long and each containing 20 plants of Amish Paste Tomatoes, except for the fourth row which has only 16 Amish Paste and 4 Cosmonaut Volkov. Wire will be strung between the posts and the plants will be secured to the wire as the season progresses. Waite has two other sections of tomatoes and this year he set out a total of 386 tomato plants.

To the right is picture of five California Wonder pepper plants recently transplanted. These are not from his own greenhouse; a friend gave these plants to him.

The hand of Waite

2009-06-08T13:32:00.001-04:00

"Here's a shot of Waite's hand after a day in the garden. Yes, he's left-handed. It's right here that the man meets the soil. The dirt is pretty much caked into the cracks and it pretty much stays there until about January or February. Nice wedding ring, huh?

June 3rd; Note Coyote and Buddy

2009-06-03T07:22:00.008-04:00

1. Coyote decoy on the job. Leeks in the foreground. They're looking much better the last couple of days.

2. To the left are posts to be strung with wire for a row of tomatoes. To the right is a fence for cucumbers. The area in the middle is still open for development - quite likely for beans.

3. The trusty Troy-Bilt Junior rototiller/power composter. It's older than Buddy.

4. Three rows of fence posts set for tomatoes.

5. It's hard to see, but there are 8 hills of watermelons in the plastic area - 24 plants, all transplants from the greenhouse. The plastic absorbs heat and holds down weeds.

6. Three full rows of Bellstar paste tomatoes transplanted June 2. Each of the first three rows (from the left) has 22 plants. The fourth row has only 6 planted so far. That's it for Bellstar: 72 plants. I will add Oregon Spring to this area but will run out of space here. I have 126 Oregon Spring plants and will have to put the others elsewhere. Then I have about 250 other tomatoes to put in.

Space is rapidly filling up and I've not even planted corn yet. I might do that today. I'm thinking I'll plant it very close together to conserve space. The soil is rich enough to provide for all of them even if densely planted.

The voice of Waite--on tomatoes

2009-06-02T19:40:00.002-04:00

Dawn saw some cages in Waite's garden but they are next to useless.

Waite says:

I got all of them free. As a friend of mine said, 'You do not want a tomato plant that a cage can hold up.' In other words, any such plant is too small. As I recall you noticed trouble with cages last year. I think your system with that metal grid last year was good.

What I'm doing this year is planting the one type in rows without staking, as I did last year. They don't look so pretty, but it's the most efficient way for me because I'm doing so many. With the others, I'm doing a post and wire system. In fact, I put in more posts Sunday. Then I'll string two wires on each set of posts, probably at 12 inches high and at 30 inches high. As the plants grow, I'll attach them to the wires with surveyor's tape unless I come up with a cheaper alternative.

One other concept I've had and not yet tried is this: set in the cedar posts and then run a wire the height of the cages. Then set the cages and secure them to the wire so that they won't fall over. I think that's a pretty quick, good-looking method for you if you're only doing, say, 12-24 tomato plants. You could get them all in one row of about 75 feet.

Early Spring (mid to late May)

2009-05-31T07:20:00.013-04:00

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.

Meet Buddy

2009-05-21T20:56:00.004-04:00

Here is Buddy, Waite's dog. He is thirteen years old on July fourth. Waite got him from the pound as an abandoned puppy in August of 1996. He has had a bit of a rough time lately, because his poor joints are not weathering the long Vermont winters well. He sometimes needs to be rescued from playing with the kids down the road because he is too weak to run home. Kinue feeds him glucosamine, which helps, and the backrubs help too. Lewis offers meat from the table. We all want Buddy to live a lot longer. He adds a certain whooooo to the garden atmosphere. Note that before today Buddy had 30 pounds of hair; he's a sexy new Buddy.

Tilling the Garden

2009-05-13T20:23:00.009-04:00

Note the clean lines and the view of the Hovey House in the photo below. Waite tills it all!

Here the bags hold mulch for the weeks to come.

Waite's beloved wife Kinue serves up watermelon last summer; we miss you Kinue!

This is the second time that Waite has tilled the garden
this season. The tractor does the work, but it is
not a simple business. You can't turn, so you have
to go back to achieve the ninety degree angle.

Operation Deer Deterrent Circa May 2009

2009-05-11T21:20:00.004-04:00

Waite has decided to pull out all the stops.
The fence that you see here consists of
three electrified wires (note the bolt
heading right down from the heavens
to mimic the fence). Last year there
was one strand, and there was a sign
of one deer's visitation. This year?
He will not be foiled. Ask Waite to
tell you about the strawberries two
years ago.

Assembly of the Modular Greenhouse

2009-04-07T11:00:00.008-04:00

Waite has a modular greenhouse made of rough-sawn 2 x 4 pine from a neighbor's land.
He puts it up in early April and takes it down in early June.

The pictures are posted in reverse order from what they should be. It's a formatting problem I'm working on.

Here is a picture of the deck on his house cleared for assembly of the greenhouse on April 6.

In the next picture, the gable ends and the two sections of the front wall are up.

In this picture, the rafters are up. Each gable end has a rafter and then thre are 7 other rafters that are installed to complete the roof framing. Of course the ledger is also up. The ledger consists of two pieces. There is a support stud in the middle.

Here two of the frame pieces for the bench are installed. There are two other frame pieces for benches on the sides.

Here is the greenhouse with the plastic installed. It takes two people about three hours to erect the greenhouse.

It is large enough that it can hold about 18 trays of 96 plants each on the benches and there is room for more on the floor.

Waite's DDS (Deer Deterrent System)

2009-03-24T08:10:00.004-04:00

Deer are a prob, at least potentially. Waite has developed what he calls his "Deer Deterrent System" consisting of several layers of security. First he strings monofilament line; deer become confused when they touch something they can't see. Then he uses an electric fence. He also scatters dog and human hair throughout the garden.

He has also come up with an idea that seems to work fairly well. He downloaded various sounds from the internet that he figures would scare deer, including wolves howling and coyotes ("coy dogs" in Vermont) yipping. He put these on an MP3 Player and hooked the MP3 up to speakers which are set in the garden. The whole system is on a timer: off in the day, on at night. The sounds are set to play randomly with 5 to 6 minutes of silence between.

For 2009 he's come up with an enhancement: A coyote decoy. These are actually made to attract coyotes as apparently in some parts of the country hunting coyotes is a sport. Waite's using his as part of his DDS. He disassembled an old Schaeffer Beer advertising clock that used to hang in a bar. It had a rotating motor. He's salvaged the motor and will attach the coyote decoy to the mechanism so that the decoy will rotate. (He has run an underground electrical wire out to the edge of his garden to power the fencer and the MP3 system - and now the rotating coyote.)

He likes to get the DDS set up by the middle of April as deer are then establishing their summer routines. If he can prevent the deer from establishing his garden area as part of their routine, it's more likely they'll not bother it. Once they get in it's harder to get them out.

Here's a picture of the decoy. It looks pretty convincing.

The final line of defense -so far avoided- is to contact the Game Warden for permission to shoot the deer with his AK-47.

Fall 2008: Putting the Garden to Bed for the Winter

2009-03-24T08:03:00.003-04:00

Every Fall Waite spends considerable time gathering leaves. He stores them in bags and in fenced containment areas. The leaves are used for mulch the following year. In some areas the leaves are left to sheet compost and in some areas they are tilled in the following Fall.

Here are some pictures of the garden in November of 2008.

Cider, Wine and Jams

2008-11-27T10:53:00.005-05:00

Waite has a cider press and makes hard cider. He often mixes other fruit with the cider, as shown in this picture of some apple/grape cider. Here is a picture of his raising a toast to the bounty of the land as the sun sets. Note the mulched garden and bagged leaves in the background.

Some years he also makes wine, but in 2008 all grapes went into grape jam. His wife does the grape jam. She also makes blueberry jam. In 2008 she made well over 100 pints of jam. He also has two 21-cubic foot freezers that he fills with vegetables every year. Actually, his wife fills the freezers.

It's Not All Vegetables

2008-11-27T10:43:00.003-05:00

Waite also grows grapes, blueberries, pears, and apples. His gapes include Worden, Van Buren, Beta and Blue Belle. In all he has about 30 grape vines; he has about 30 blueberry plants. He has 6 or 7 apples, but each is a native variety. He didn't plant any of them. They just came up years and years ago and he been maintaining them. He has one three-on-one pear tree that produced some pears one year, but it's a Zone 4 tree and so not very productive. A few years ago he bought two Staceyville and one Summer Crisp Zone 3 pear trees from Fedco. He's hoping to get fruit in the Fall of 2009. Here are some various pictures to illustrate.

Moose Tubers

2008-11-25T11:58:00.004-05:00

Waite purchases seeds from Fedco in Waterville, Maine. (http://www.fedcoseeds.com/) Fedco has a subsidary called Moose Tubers which offers a wide range of potatoes. For the past 5 or 6 years, Waite has been a trialer for Moose Tubers. His garden is in Zone 3. He grows potatoes for Moose Tubers and reports on such parameters as date of emergence, percentage emergence, yield per pound of seed potato, taste and texture. Pictured here is part of one year's crop drying and close ups of two interesting varieties tested for Moose Tubers.

Vegetables Up Close

2008-11-25T11:51:00.002-05:00

Waite purchases seed from Fedco in Waterville, Maine. He highly recommends them for quality, variety and price. You can go their site at http://www.fedcoseeds.com/. Fedco sells not only seeds but also a very wide selection of top quality planting stock.

Here are some pictures of various vegetables from his 2008 garden, all from Fedco seeds.

In the Beginning

2008-11-25T10:16:00.007-05:00

Waite bought part of an adjoining field in 2002.
Prior to that he had been confined to the original
1 acre plot he bought to build his house in 1975.
The following pictures show some work done
soon after purchasing the land. He cleared up
along the stone wall and used pigs to help
begin the process of clearing the land.

TURNING A NEW LEAF

2008-11-24T21:36:00.006-05:00

Well, the title isn't exactly true. For months
now, Waite has been teaching me about the
complexities of mulching. To bring you
up to date, we should begin at the very
beginning.....

A long time ago the garden area was a
pasture for Holsteins. When Waite
purchased the land in 2002 he fenced
in some pigs to help clear the land.
You can see part of the fence in the picture
on the left. Then he bought a small used
Massey-Ferguson tractor with a tiller
and started putting in cover crops

and tilling them in and adding leaves
to amend the soil. You can see the
newly-emerged winter rye in both
pictures, which were taken in early
November of 2003.

He started gardening on this land in 2003.
A major part of the overall vision was to use
leaves as mulch and to allow them to sheet
compost. Every Fall he gathers leaves and
stores them in bags or in so-called
"containment areas" and applies them
directly to the ground.

Walla-Walla Onions

2008-07-03T09:01:00.004-04:00

This picture was taken July 1, 2008. It shows 4 sections of Walla-Walla onions, about 500 in total. On the far right you can see part of the leeks. On the far left you can see part of the fence holding Oregon Giant peas. Beyond the onions are a couple of sections of beets. In the upper left you can see part of the asparagus patch with about 200 plants. The bare area in the foreground is for later planting of lettuce or short-season (50-day) beans so that harvests can be staggered. In the lower right you can see part of a section of Haricot Vert beans.

2008-07-02T17:44:00.003-04:00

This sign was posted to warn all leek-
lovers that the leeks are not to be
approached without permission from
Waite. Last year, as Dawn stealthily
crept towards the leeks with a plastic
bag and pocket knife in hand, she
jumped as she heard a deep voice
from behind the garden wall: "step
away from the leeks." Jumping into
the air, she managed to grab a few
fat ones to roast on the way down.

Jet Star and Roma Tomatoes

2008-07-02T06:46:00.002-04:00

Here's a shot of one of Waite's tomato patches. In all he has about 300 tomato plants in his garden and varieties include Jet Star, Roma, Early Girl, Grandma's Paste and Heinz. In this patch the first two rows on the left are Jet Star and the others are Roma. The plantings are timed so that they do not all mature at the same time.

Moose Tubers Spud Trials 2008

2008-07-02T06:41:00.004-04:00

This is a shot of Waite's Moose Tubers Spud Trials. For the last three years, he's done a trial patch of potatoes for Moose Tubers in Waterville, Maine. They are part of Fedco, where he buys his seeds. You can check the Fedco/Moose Tubers website at http://www.fedcoseeds.com/

Leaves as Mulch

2008-06-25T07:29:00.003-04:00

Waite is pretty serious about mulching. It suppresses weeds, conserves moisture, and, through sheet-composting, adds to the soil.

He collects them in bags every Fall and also has fenced-in bulk storage areas.

His favorite type is split-leaf maple.
These two pictures show part of one year's gathering.

2008-06-24T21:27:00.003-04:00

Waite took this photo last fall, at season's end. The onions that you see
above now inhabit part of this garden. There are many more veggies
to be seen, however, but they cannot be seen until Waite gives Dawn
more photos.

Leeks: after the summer solstice

2008-06-23T20:33:00.014-04:00

Waite planted these Lincoln Leeks about six weeks ago. Harris Seed at http://www.harrisseeds.com/ has very competitive prices. Once they were established after about three weeks, Waite mulched them heavily with leaves gathered last Fall and stored in bags over the Winter.