Check the panel at right for a complete list of this month's chores
Previous Months
October 2011
- Mow
- WEED, WEED, WEED
- Water, as needed
- Harvest
- Provide frost protection for late crops
- Plant garlic (mid-month)
- Begin garden cleanup
- Begin 2012 garden planning: evaluate what worked and what didn't for the first season
- Mow
- WEED, WEED, WEED
- Water, as needed
- Harvest
- Begin under-sowing a cover crop of oats
- Host a canning/pesto-making session to use up remaining tomatoes and basil
- Mow
- WEED, WEED, WEED
- Water, as needed
- Host NOFA Garden Tour
- Harvest
- Mow
- WEED, WEED, WEED
- Water, as needed
- Pull garlic (end of the month)
- Pull spent pea vines
- Plant fall crops - kale, collards, beets, carrots
- "Hill" potatoes (mulch barrels)
- Harvest
- Mow
- WEED, WEED, WEED
- WATER (weekly, as needed)
- Remove mulberry tree and chip for mulch
- Transplant divisions of herbs and perennials
- Transplant tomatoes and other warm weather crops (end of month)
- Prune privet hedge
- Remove garlic mustard patch
- Dig out new garden beds
- Spread compost from the NHLT
April 2011
- Get organized for May workdays
- String twine for pea shoots to climb
- Start potatoes in barrels
- Direct sow first plantings of cool weather crops
- Transplant letttuce, onions, bok choi, and chard to beds
- Direct sow peas and spinach
- Mulch garlic beds
- Start seeds for cool and warm weather crop indoors
- Begin garden cleanup
- Meet with members to discuss garden goals and operations
- Build tool shed
- Build raised beds for root and leaf crops and fill with compost
- Start garlic in new raised beds
- Take garden measurements and start planning
- Create 2011 membership application for recruitment
- Clear garden of brush and prune back shading trees
- Sheet mulch main planting area
- Get soil tested
