Rain gardening

Hogan Garden

We're happy the high heat is gone for a bit and we welcome the rain! This week we'll continue weeding, both beds and paths where needed, and start picking! 

The City Hall garden time this week is WEDNESDAY at 5:30 unless it's raining. Sometimes we just have to catch some dry time on our own whenever it works. 

All the gardens have kale, radishes, lettuce, cauliflower. Spinach is bolting (sending up seed stalks and starting to get triangle-shaped leaves) in some places - pull the whole plant when that happens and eat the leaves. We'll plant new stuff in the gaps.

If you want to join our weekly garden groups or have questions, please email, text, or call.

Spinach-Kale Side Salad from Daisybeet: https://www.daisybeet.com/15-minute-everyday-kale-spinach-side-salad/

Tart cherries

The Aptiv orchard includes (tart) cherry trees and cherries are ready to pick now. We also believe there are cherries at the YMCA Food Forest on Main & West Ave.

Cherry Buckle from The Southern: https://thesouthern.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/taste-recipe-cherry-buckle/article_ee5ba825-0e1d-520d-b790-e0c27331fd6b.html

Easy Sour Cherry Sauce from Art and the Kitchen: https://www.artandthekitchen.com/easy-sour-cherry-sauce/

Scapes + more!

 

We have scapes! And lettuce, cauliflower, dill, and more!

Even as we finalize planting, some things are now ready to pick.

Garlic scapes are the seed stalks that shoot out of some varieties of garlic plants. You can punch or cut them off right where they come out of the plant when they have made a curl, and use them like you would green onions or chives. You can eat of discard the tapered seed head. More from The Gardener's Almanac here: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-the-heck-are-garlic-scapes

At City Hall, there are garlic scapes plus cauliflower, dill (it's everywhere), kale, and lettuce (find the lettuce in the tomato bed, under the pea arch, and around the compost bin. The napa cabbage near the cauliflower, has bolted (gone to seed). You can still eat the leaves (pull the whole plant), but we'll replace it with some other plants soon. We are hoping to remulch the paths in the next few weeks.

At Aptiv, we have scapes and herbs right now, plus some radishes and lettuce.

The Hogan garden is starting to produce lettuce, spinach, and radishes.

Try this - Kale, Garlic Scape, and Walnut Pesto

More scapes, should you need them, should be available at the Kane Street Garden, or a farmers market. They come and go quickly, so het them now!

If you would like to help out at any of the victory gardens, please call or text 608-315-2693, or email us at MinisterOfBeans@gmail.com.

Still planting!

As weather warms, we'll finish up planting soon. This week, the City Hall garden day will be Wednesday at 5:30 instead of Tuesday.