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Official final harvest 2022

November 20, 2022November 20, 2022Posted in GardenTagged beets, carrots, community garden, denver, Denver urban gardens, Garden, radishes, vegetables1 Comment

Yeah, I could probably keep growing my root veggies in the grow tent but I’m calling it for the season.

Here’s what came out of the ground today. Beets are sadly not grown in but beautiful nonetheless. Carrots all planted at the same time had wildly varied growth rates! Watermelon radishes made a good final effort. Overall I would say that I should have harvested some greens pre-frost (they got kind of icky), and should have started everything earlier to make sure they were farther along before the frost. I also believe that they’d continue to grow if left in the grow tunnel.

General update

I found out a few weeks ago that I got approved to move to a larger plot. It’s about 33% larger as far as I can tell, and all one rectangle instead of two separate ones. It also appears that I will not have to worry about planting dill, as it comes with its own crop.

Final look at the plots before calling it a season.

Garden cool down

November 3, 2022November 6, 2022Posted in GardenTagged beets, community garden, Denver urban gardens, vegetablesLeave a comment

Lest we get a cramp, we have begun the garden cooldown.

Honestly I’m glad to have less garden work for a while. I spent hours disassembling, emptying, cleaning, and stowing garden containers and structures last weekend.

North plot, cleared except for a few stalwart onions and peas

The warming hut

I have a few root veg that I’m continuing to grow in my little low tunnel, mostly to protect them from snow and stuff. I think they’re fine with the cold temps.

Weekly garden digest 10/25 +

October 25, 2022October 29, 2022Posted in GardenTagged beets, community garden, cool weather crops, cucumbers, denver, Denver urban gardens, Garden, radishes, squash, vegetables, weekly garden digest 2022, zucchiniLeave a comment

I started writing this update a few days ago, and already, with a few cold nights, so much has changed!

Silver slicer cucumber took a steep nose dive

Retirements

Harvest and other developments

The major development is the construction of my mini warm house for radishes, carrots, beets, and spinach that are still growing. They should be fine without it for a bit longer, but I’m using this as a learning experience. I already learned that plastic trash bags are unwieldy and shower curtains are the way to go. My neighbor also has a pole along the bottom seam on both sides which is a pro move to hold the ends down evenly.

For the frame I ordered a small segmented kit on Amazon to try things out before investing a bunch of money (and storage space!) on a bigger structure. I still have pieces left, I may add more cross pieces to make it stronger. The great thing about this is I can take it apart and store it in essentially a shoebox when I’m not using it. Storage space for all of my garden gear is becoming an issue since I don’t have a garage.