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2025 garden prospectus

It's shaping up to be a beautiful season!! 

Can you take food? Yes, from the common, ie, not personal beds. We will share tomatoes, cucumbers, collards, kale, radishes, salad turnips, pepper, chilis, okra, potatoes, beans, winter squash, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, strawberries, passionfruit, herbs  and flowers. You can also adopt a crop as your own in lieu of having a bed. 
 
Put a nice, colorful sign on your plot so everyone can see it's yours. Something may still be eaten by a hungry kid, but I'll help protect your harvest. If there's something over-ripe in your plot, others have the right to take it before it goes bad. 
 
Now harvesting: Lettuce and spinach (in the greenhouse). Remove leaves carefully while leaving plants in place. 
 
Wrinkles/improvements planned this year
Double ponds, one for plants, one for critters
Auto irrigation in middle bed
New crops: honeyberry aka haskap
 
Ways to help
Weekend and evening watering
Open and close greenhouse windows if it's really warm or going to rain
Provide needs: Sprouting potatoes, plastic shopping bags
Have a bonfire some night--we have too a wood surplus
Load Chris a wood chipper if you have one
Help build/repair things
 
Chickens are not planned at this point because we can't guarantee they won't have or contract bird flu. 
 
Please don't
Plant mint (it's aggressive and we have it already)
Bring in conventional fertilizers or pesticides; Chris will treat and fertilize using organic methods
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