The Missus and I are shivering towards progress, one morning at a time, in the Fonda San Miguel vegetable garden.  We’ve cleaned out 3 of the 14 beds, worked in a cubic yard of Turkey litter compost, and have planted 1,500 carrot seeds, 1,500 radish seeds, and 20 4″ broccoli plants.   We’ve made some minor repairs to the existing drip system, mulched the 3 beds with Alfalfa hay after planting, and have weeded and pruned the native perennial beds along the interior of the garden fence.

120 radish plants were harvested for the kitchen, and last fall’s broccoli plants are still sending out floretes, which are finally starting to turn bitter, signaling the end of the line for those plants.  Last year’s cilantro is taking over the world.  Last year’s leeks are ready to harvest this week.  We’ll be finishing the last round of cool-season planting in early March – swiss chard and spinach.  Gabriel Valley Farms is starting tomatoes, tomatillos, squash, cucumbers and epazote for us, to be ready to plant starting late March.  We’re also hoping to sneak in some other Mexican herbs this month.

We’ve been extra thankful for input from Farmer Jo at Angel Valley Farm in Jollyville, and Farmer “wish-I-was-a-real-Texan” Mike during our first month.  Looking forward to bugging them and others for the months to come.

Come by and check it out!  We had our first random visitor a couple weeks ago, an older gentleman from the neighborhood who just adopted his 3 grandchildren, and who wants to start gardening again for their sake.  I hope to have some starter plants for him next time he visits.