This past Friday we enjoyed our first harvest of arugula. We had a salad including dried cranberries, goat cheese and toasted sunflower seeds with a balsamic vinaigrette. And yesterday we had another monster salad including our first spinach, lettuce, more arugula and "sassy salad" mix. Delicious.
Today I am clearing out the two pre-existing garden beds that are partly shaded under the neighbors maple tree. Tomorrow I hope to visit the New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods in Framingham and bring home some native plants or seeds to fill them in.
I pruned back the giant forsythia bush at the back of the property to uncover a beautifully blooming clematis climbing up the back fence from the neighbors property.
On Saturday we talked about corn with a man who lives a few blocks away, with a giant section of his property devoted to vegetable gardening. He grows a number of different varieties and would like to grow one variety up here.
Hence, we are now reorganizing the plan and will now be growing corn in the far corner of the property (previously assigned to squash and pumpkins) and will be creating two new beds; one for our squash, and one for our cucumbers.
Tonight the temperature will go all the way down to 42 degrees and so I am reluctant to transplant our tomatoes, peppers and eggplant today.
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strawberry
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