Happy Earth Day in the garden

The garden has been so responsive to the rains that we gardeners are working hard to keep up with the growth and overgrowth. Check out some of the abundance:

Bulb-out garden brightens Bimini Place

Jess’ Onion Abundance

First artichoke: the cooking water looked like it had been dyed brilliant green

Below: Peas were reluctant to germinate this year and required 4 re-plantings. The ones that sprouted flourished. I usually eat 1/2 of the daily harvest while I’m picking them, and we still have plenty to share with neighbors. While the pea vines begin to decline, the Fava (broad) beans are maturing.

I love growing Romanesco broccoli because it is so beautiful. Unlike the broccolini that preceded it, it won’t have side shoots, so that is the cost of beauty. Next year we’ll grow them simultaneously for abundance and beauty.

I can’t say enough about the efficiency of planting sweet potatoes and potatoes. Cut one into several pieces, plant each piece and each piece may yield 1-3 lbs! We harvested sweet potatoes in late fall and we started digging potatoes mid- March.

Some Ecovillage children, led by Autumn, spent hours digging wild onion out of this plot, hauling bricks to frame it and planting.