We enjoyed some wonderful weather this weekend, including a beautiful Sunday that was a perfect setting for our warm weather plant and compost sales. Scott Williams of Garden To Be sold over 3,500 plants at EHCG this Spring, including 1,400 this past Sunday. Compost was sold at Eagle Heights, and Adam, one of our garden workers, oversaw its transportation to University Houses gardeners, cartload by cartload. We do sell this compost at cost, and this year scaled back to $2 per 1/3 cart load. We hope that you had a chance to get some of this wonderful compost. We are discussing selling off the remainder some time in the near future, and will keep you updated.
After the warm weather plant sale and the recent temperatures, I think it is safe to declare that we have begun the part of the late Spring that can be classified as "tomato weather": it is now safe to grow tomatoes outside. But how do you know if tomato weather has truly begun?
Everyone has different superstitions and anxieties about when it is ok to put fussy warm weather plants outside. I have put together a very simple chart (below) with very general guidelines about tomatoes. Feel free to respond with your own perspectives and experience.
Along with the sales, I walked through Eagle Heights garden with the registrar yesterday to get an impression of how far along our gardeners are with their Spring garden work. Many of you have beautiful, well-managed, robust plots already bursting with gorgeous lettuces and carrot tops. I look forward to continuing to admire the work of our gardeners as the season progresses.
Happy gardening!
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