Regular weekly volunteering sessions have restarted at the urban farm! Afterwards, I went to check in on my allotment bed again. I think the weight and breathability of the AG-30 Agribon frost cover was ideal for my needs, but my support hoops will need redone..the heavy snow was just too much. All of the gai lan and most of the daikon were finally winter-killed, but that's okay, they'll enrich the soil. Three or so daikon are still holding on..I may let them go and hope they manage to give me some seeds to save. The kale looks great and seems completely unbothered by anything but slugs, having put on new growth over the winter. The sage also seems to have grown, even though it has some complaints about being squished. All my garlic is up, and I just hope it had enough of a dormancy period..we'll see! Both rosemary plants survived the winter, though they don't look thrilled about it, and the strawberry plants are also growing. The mache and miner's lettuce that I sowed during the winter hasn't done anything, but perhaps it will now that it's warming up. Either way, I will probably start putting radishes/lettuce/etc. in some of the empty squares soon. In the mean time, a lot of bittercress weeds have popped up, but I'm not mad about it since they're easy to pull and pretty tasty! tastes like spinach with a slight radish edge. I think I'll weed them up to add to a salad.
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JL Johnson 
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Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
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