Kick Fard Harm

Happy Mother's Day! What a great gardening day, the Ashby Community Garden was bustling with activity and inspiration. I pulled weeds, "potted-up" (transplanted into bigger pots) some tomato and tomatillo starts in the green house, expanded the small triangular plot by the bench, then made some tomato cages out of plastic fencing to support the tomatoes planted in the new bigger plot (see below). Star, Nora, David, and I, in a moment of exhaustion and delirium, also came up with some ideas for a new garden name (an example of one of the more confusing ones inspired the title of this post).

Star and Nora dug up what we all thought was a giant Swiss Chard, but turned out to look more like a radioactive mutant beet. We were all quite awe-stricken by the huge root which tasted and bled like a conventional red beet.


There's still so much work to do to ensure a bountiful Summer and Fall harvest, but the energy of the garden/ers is so high right now I have no doubt we can all pull it off! For a constantly updated album of Ashby Garden pictures, see my photo album on Flickr.