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Late April Check In

We’re well into the growing season. Easter has come and gone, and we’ve already had several lettuce harvests that have made for wonderful farm to table salads! The big winners have been Roquette Arugula, which has always been reliable for me, Summertime, one of my favorites as far as flavor and texture go, and a new variety that we’ve tried this year, New Red Fire. Yields of Sunland have also been decent. More on that below.

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Spring Gardening: Soil, Seeds, and Structures

I’m a few weeks into the spring gardening season, even though it’s still over a week until the spring equinox and 2 weeks before the average last frost date. The weather has taken a turn for the better after a month long stretch of cold temperatures. Although my plan had me planting beets, carrots, peas, and lettuce this week, I actually planted them 2 weekends ago after the long range forecast in my weather app showed springlike conditions for the foreseeable future. So far that gamble seems to be paying off.

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