Growing Season

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Green manure crop has been turned into the soil and Cathy is preparing the planting bed.	Newly planted cucumbers & squash, artichokes & herbs.	Plastic was used to warm the soil, starve insects, and retain moisture (mid March to late April was the time frame for turning green manure, preparing soil beds, and placing plastic).
Tomatoes, peppers & eggplant are caged. Sticky traps are set up to monitor insects.	Solar panel in summer setting.	The mint that was removed back in early April, is outside and growing.

Cathy Hope is holding a mature Italian trombone zuchinni. The green cuke hanging in the upper right is a Japanese Suyo long cucumber. Every year she grows 75 lbs of basil out of the front bed.