we've been working hard!!! updates for 4/18 &4/25

okay, i admit it, i have fallen behind in the updates! sorry about that but i have a good excuse. as you know i am working on my second cookbook and the deadlines are kicking my butt!!! i still manage to get out to the garden but any time leftover is utilized for testing recipes and formatting them on the computer. so here is what is happening in the demo garden:

first of all, a big round of applause for the following interns from the class of 2010: wendi micheletto, bari bacilieri, gwen mckinney, joy kosarsky, and roy miles for coming out and giving us a hand in the various shade beds and the grass garden. With Darry and Nancy leading the way, baskets and wheel barrows were filled numerous times and lots of weeds were shown the door!

Here are a few of the sights you will see if you come out to visit:

broccoli in one of the junior beds. we are utilizing the space for cool season crops

lettuce and radishes

spinach

as you may have heard, i am redesigning the herb garden. the entire garden will be planted using the lasagna method and found objects. this is one of the beds that 2010 intern laura reith helped me build.

we also built this bed and transplanted all of the sage plants into it

another view of the sage plants

to outline the garden, i am using stumps and limbs of all shapes and sizes.

one of the best parts of working in the demo garden, the chance to work with extension agents. the group of pathologists working here always have something going on and we get to watch the trials as they progress. we also get the chance to work with david cook and this week we had a visitor

the catapillar for an underwing moth. they feed on the leaves to the willow oak tree.

come on out and join us some time! we have many new features to build, lots of old features to revamp and a lot of weeds to pull.