The Boston Latin School Garden!
25 October 2012, by Lily Lu
It's been a while since our last blog post! Today was also the first big garden maintenance session we've had in a while, and boy did we have a lot to do! We racked in a HUGE harvest of practically everything in the garden: beans, eggplants, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, chard, basil, and banana peppers! Despite the cold snaps we've been having every now and then, the garden still looks green, healthy, and productive. The tomato plants have been browning a little, and there were some moldy leaves, but we hope we can get a couple of more harvests before it's completely gone. Here's where we'll be trying that technique mentioned in a previous post, where you "shock" tomato plants into ripening faster by slighting damaging the roots at the base of the plant. We'll see if this works or not!
Our nasturtiums have grown OUT OF CONTROL, and we had to pull them up. They're in the compost bin now. In their place we planted garlic, cabbage, and spinach. Out with the old and in with the new!
 We also installed out cold frames for the season! That'll keep a steady temperature for the plants to survive even in the winter.

Did you know? You can plant garlic cloves direct into the ground, and they'll grow! It's a great way to be sustainable with your garlic, just save a clove or two, and keep the garlic plants growing!
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12 June 2013, by Amy
Summer is around the corner, the tomatoes and strawberry are flowering! Last week, we picked our first strawberry (a picture of it is in the gallery). Other plants that are in the garden include cilantro, LOTS of scallions, chives, pepper, spinach mixed greens... The nasturtiums from before are sticking around. We'll try to get a recipe for that when one of us steps up to the plate. (Ha! That was pretty funny.)
We planted beans, which are coming up, but something is eating its leaves (picture in the gallery)... We also planted cucumber seedlings, but they are not doing too well.
We recently cut a lot of scapes, which is the curly immature flower bud of garlic plants (there's a pattern here -- picture in gallery!).
It's been raining a lot, which is wonderful for the plants. Our challenges now are finding out when plants are ripe and ready to eat, treating pests to our beans, and reviving a strawberry plant.
12 JULY 2013, by Amy
Today we had fun mulching the garden with cocoa hulls, which smell so good (but, to our dismay did not taste chocolatey...). Newly added to the gallery are our plants making great progress, with the beans definitely recovering from their pests problem. The strawberries in the garden bed have all died. The container strawberry is still, but not looking too great, so it received great compost tea from the great Green City Growers!
Welcoming into the garden beds (also from our partner Green City Growers) are banana pepper, squash, cherry tomato, mint, and rosemary. We planted more carrot seeds, and the nearby radish seeds from last week are coming up. Our eggplant addition from last week is also doing marvelously.
We pulled up the cold frame from one of the garden bed, because it is needed now no longer!