Stephen Albert
Welcome to the CCSF Garden page. Get updates on what’s happening in the garden this week.
Saturday April 27 – Work in CCSF garden 10am to 1pm
We will be re-newing two asparagus beds and planting fava beans and strawberries.
Scroll down through the updates to see what’s been planted, what’s growing, and expected harvest.
Past meetings below:
Saturday April 20: Planted green beans, squash, snow peas, spinach, and kohlrabi. Harvested lettuce.
Saturday April 13: No meeting. Spring break.
Saturday April 6: Visited FILOI ornamental and vegetable gardens.
Saturday March 30: Planted carrots, celery, collards, kale, cabbage. Hilled up potatoes.
Tuesday March 26: Prepared two additional planting beds with weedblock fabric and hoops and covers.
Saturday March 23: No meeting
Saturday March 16: Removed bird damaged plants and added weed block cloth to planting bed. Planted lettuce, cabbage, collards, cauliflower, and kale. Place hoops and netting over beds to prevent birds and insects from attacking plants. Hilled up potaotes in grow bags.
Saturday March 9: Planted a second bed with potatoes and onions; placed weed-block across the bed prior to planting; weed-block should help control the bulb weed called Nothoscordum gracile. Planted a third bed partially with strawberries. Assessed bird damage to the first bed of cabbage-family crops; placed bird netting over the bed to exculde further pest damage. Moved seedlings from greenhouse to lath house for hardening-off. Our tomatoes and peppers and potatoes in grow bags remain in the greenhouse.
Saturday March 2: Planted potatoes. Continued bed preparation. Checked on last weeks plantings.
Saturday February 24: Planted in the garden cabbage, cauliflower, collards, mustard. Potted up tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse.
Saturday February 17: Not meeting due to rainstorm.
Saturday February 10: Planted peas in garden; began preparation of another planting bed.
Saturday February 3: Soil was too wet to plant. Potted up seedlings in the greenhouse.
Saturday January 27: Sow seeds in greenhouse including Carrots, Turnips, Celery, Lettuce, Spinach; work in garden preparing soil
January 22: Seed start indoors: Collards, Kale, Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens
January 20: Seed start indoors: Basil, Chives, Oregano, Thyme
January 13: Seed start indoors: Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants
January 12: Seed start indoors: Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower
December 15: Seed start indoors Lettuce, Peas
Projected planting January – March:
Fava bean, Beet, Broccoli (plants), Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower (plants), Kale, Leek, Lettuce, Mustard, Onion (sets), Parsnip, Pea, Potato (tubers), Radish, Spinach, Swiss chard, Turnip
Projected planting April – May:
Basil, Bean, snap, bush, pole, Carrot, Cauliflower (plants), Celery, Eggplant (plants), Lettuce, Pepper (plants), Squash, summer, Squash, winter, Swiss chard, Tomato (plants)
