The Garden Moves Outside

Yesterday was the last frost date, and the Greylock Garden is up and running! On April 30, a group of Mt. Greylock and Williams students set up the garden for growing season. Pulling up last year's buckwheat (the cover crop for the part of the garden not in use), we made three long wide beds for veggies and one long skinny bed for flowers. We fertilized with bags of compost.We also planted Buttercrunch Bibb lettuce and Bordeaux spinach and transplanted Red Express cabbage and nasturtiums from the greenhouse into the beds. On May 11, the seed potatoes also went into the ground. We planted four different potato species: Romanze, Kennebec, Elba, and Russel Burbank. This week, we will also transplant cucumbers and tomatoes from the greenhouse into the garden. Feel free to come up and check on the garden--the lettuce and spinach are sprouting, but so are the weeds!