Teaching Garden Update: Potatoes & Leeks

All of life's stresses seem to go away in the garden with all the flowers and especially when it's potato party time! This last week at the teaching gardens at ZBG, we harvested potatoes and then conditioned the soil with spent mushroom substrate and planted another succession of cucumbers. We are already harvesting cucumbers, okra, leeks, onions, garlic, peppers, mustard greens, beans and the last of the radishes. We saved seeds including poppy and love-in-a-mist flowers which are both edible. We planted watermelon, honeydew, and fertilized all the corn, newly planted mallows, like okra, roselle, and red cotton with fish emulsion. We transplanted several warm-season greens from David Kramer including, Chaya, Okinawa Spinach, Longevity Spinach and Brazilian Spinach. We seeded in three types of Egyptian Spinach (Molokhia). We foliar sprayed our tomatoes with seaweed. The corn is growing quickly and we hope we continue to get more rain this May. Once they start to tassel we will inoculate the corn with a fungus to try to grow huitlacoche! Stay tuned and join us next week for more stress relieving fun in the garden. All ages and abilities welcome! Sign up to volunteer on at AustinOrganicGardeners.org