Yesterday afternoon the sun called me up to the garden to see what could be done. With my seed box, planting plan drawn up in dreary January and trusty rake and shovel under my arm, I trekked up to the Civic Garden Center’s Backyard Vegetable Garden.
A few remnants of last season’s growth remained: four foot tall dry fennel stalks towering above light green feathers of new growth, a leaning kale tower stripped clean by deer, brown rotting tops of swiss chard encircling one bed and hardy turnips, leeks, carrots and daikon radish determined to nourish someone in the heart of winter. I selected a few of the biennial leeks and daikon to complete their life cycle and go to seed, but pulled everything else to create a clean canvas on which to arrange the spring planting.
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