weekly garden digest 2022

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.

First draft of cover, didn’t do great with wind

Current setup. Shower curtain, more clips.

Weekly garden digest 10/16

October 16, 2022October 16, 2022Posted in GardenTagged community garden, cucumbers, denver, Denver urban gardens, Garden, seed starting, squash, tomatoes, vegetables, weekly garden digest 2022, zucchini2 Comments

Harvest

I didn’t do great with documenting my harvest this week, but things are definitely slowing down. Most exciting new harvest- I pulled out one watermelon radish because they’re starting to look big. Not sure they’re all ready but so pretty!