This week at the garden: second week of May

Here in Central Virginia, we had a cold spell last weekend with night time temperatures in the thirties. All our plants survived, and use of floating row cover helped us to protect more sensitive crops.  It is exciting to walk into the hoophouse and see not only lettuce mix growing but blooming colorful flowers too!

Last year we planted nasturtiums in one of the hoophouse beds.  Those plants dropped seeds last fall which have yielded  new "volunteer" plants this spring.  Nasturtiums are an edible flower and we grew them to add to our lettuce mix and to wholesale to Boar's Head Inn. 

Below is a flashback photo from 2019 summer CSA with nasturtiums added to the lettuce mix bags.  The flowers add a zesty pepper flavor and a burst of color.

Our onions planted late March-early April are growing well.  Weeding the onion beds is on the list for next week's garden tasks. 

MKG was excited to donate lettuce mix again this week to Cultivate Charlottesville's Urban Agriculture Collective.  We harvested twenty seven pounds of lettuce mix  (55 individual servings of 1/2 pound bags) and delivered the produce today.  We look forward to donating more to UAC this spring.

Happy spring!  Stephanie Meyers, MKG Farm Manager