Friday, March 26, 2010

...and the planting begins!

Over the winter, the Landless Gardeners were fortunate enough to form a relationship with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (http://www.conservationcouncil.ca/) who are in possession of a beautiful greenhouse. Even more fortunate for us, they were willing to host our seeds for the months leading up to gardening season. Located just a couple of blocks from two of our plots and a beautiful building filled with helpful and enthusiastic folks, the greenhouse at the Conservation Council is the perfect place to start the season... and start the season we did!


Greg, planting far too much broccoli


Yesterday, four of the Landless Gardeners got together at the greenhouse to start some seeds. After some consultation with soem more experienced gardeners and farmers (and a look at the upcoming forecast) we decided to plant just three crops. With the greenhouse being unheated and the weather about to dip again over the next few days we did not want to freeze anything before we even got started. We ended up planting broccoli, green onions, and beets.


Kerri, getting into the green onions!




The beets weren't a necessity since last year we had plenty of luck with growing them straight from seed outdoors however, we're attempting to do more succession planting this year to make foods available at different times throughout the season, so these beets will turn out to be an early crop and we'll plant more from seed in June.

Some of the Landless Gardeners, divying up assignments... our research
team (Bill) working feverishly on the right.


In a week or two, we'll be back in the greenhouse to plant some more seeds. We may even start some lettuce that we can pick straight from the greenhouse! Are any of you planting anything yet?