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Summer Planting Season Has Begun

Submitted by gpaul on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 20:44
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Here’s the latest spring photo update. I hope everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere is enjoying the start of the growing season as much as we are.

Andy's Chinese-style raised beds and low-resource trellising setup.

Andy's Chinese-style raised beds and low-resource trellising setup.

A bubbling broth of aerated compost tea

A bubbling broth of aerated compost tea

Hairy Vetch Flowers. We use Hairy Vetch as a nitrogen fixing and weed supressing cover crop.

Hairy Vetch Flowers. We use Hairy Vetch as a nitrogen fixing and weed supressing cover crop.

Mounds for Winter Squash in a strip-tilled plot. (More on strip-tillage in a future post)

Mounds for Winter Squash in a strip-tilled plot. (More on strip-tillage in a future post)

As a gardener for a seed company it is my duty to grow turnips. As communards it is their duty to eat them - I wish!

As a gardener for a seed company it is my duty to grow turnips. As communards it is their duty to eat them - I wish!

Crimson Clover. A visually delightful cover crop.

Crimson Clover. A visually delightful cover crop.