2026 Notes on Beds (sorted by Column Number)

City Harvest beds and collective beds are merged this year; donations to City Harvest will be a proportion of the produce of all the Collective beds.

Notes are in chronological order with the most recent entries first.

• A1: Overwintered Egyptian walking onions, arugula, parsley and tarragon.
• A2: 4/4 Lettuce and parsley starts (plan: tba, maybe malabar spinach)
• A3: 6/6 Heavy insect damage. Sprayed with dipel. 6/2 Collard leaves harvested.4/26 Spinach harvestable. 4/4 Collard starts, 3/29 Dill seed, 2025:nOverwintered Calendula and spinach
• A5: 5/12 Little leaf cukes planted. 4/4 Leeks starts, 3/22 Planted cut/come again lettuce on Wayne Ave side of bed. (Plan cukes)
• A8: 3/14: hakurei turnips and beets planted (plan cukes)
• A9: 5/12 Tomatoes planted: Bumblebee, sunpeach, sungold, black cherry, annarita, black krim. Overwintered cilantro
• A11: 5/26 Trombocino squash planted in back of peas. 5/4/28 Lettuce harvestable. 4/4 lettuce starts, 3/12: snap peas planted; (plan trombocino and peanuts)
• A12: 5/26 Yellow crookneck squash added. 2025: Overwintered arugula (Plan summer squash)
• B1: 5/12 cut and come again lettuce ready for thinning. 4/4 Lettuce starts, 3/29 Lettuce seeds
• B2: 5/12 Farouq and Corinto cukes planted. 4/4 lettuce starts 3/29 more radish 3/14: Four kinds of radishes planted, occupying right 3/4 of bed
• B3:4/21 first puntarelle harvest 4/4 bulbing onions, overwintered puntarelle
• B5: 5/12 Napa harvested 4/15ish: Lost five cabbage to cutworm. Put collars on rest. 4/4 green, red, napa cabbage, 3/29 dill seed (Plan: okra/)
• B10: 5/12 Some napa harvested. Peas probably too bird eaten. 4/4 nappa cabbage starts, 3/12: snow peas planted (plan okra/sweets)
• B11: 5/26 First fava harvest, 5/10 first fava beans appear. 4/18 first fava flowers. Favas (planted fall), no alliums (plan: cucurbits)
• B12: 5/26 Scapes harvested. Garlic and spinach (planted fall) (plan: cucurbits)
• C1: 6/2 last radish harvest. 4/21 first radishes. replanted with more radishes and some hakurei turnips 3/29 Bacchus radish
• C2: 4/28 peas ready to trellis. 3/14: snow peas planted; cilantro and lettuces remain in bed
• C5: 5/26 scape harvest. Garlic and spinach (planted fall) Plan: no cucurbits or nightshades
• C8: 6/2 Yakov Akoy and Puerto Rican Everblush okra planted. First carrot harvest. 4/4 leek and onion starts, Carrots (fall planted); Plan: no nightshades, cucurbits
• C11: 5/12 Tomatoes planted 4/28 Mustard harvest. 4/4, mustard greens and scallion starts (Plan: Tomatoes)
• C12: 5/12 peppers planted 4/28 Kale harvest 4/22 first bok choy harvest. 4/4 bok choy, kale. (Plan: Tomatoes)
• D1: 4/28 peas ready for trellis. 3/14: snap peas and lettuce planted
• D2: 5/9 first bean appeared. 4/18ish first fava flowers. 4/4 day neutral strawberries planted, favas (planted in fall); no cucurbits or nightshades
• D3: 6/2 last turnip harvest. 3/29 hakurei turnips (Plan: Pole beans)
• D4: 6/2 Aunt Hettie’s Red and White Velvet Okra planted. Some beets harvested. 4/4 bulbing onions, 3/29 mixed beets (Plan: Okra/sweets)
• D5: 5/12 planted two eggplant, one limo, one scorpion 4/28 first radishes. 3/22 Three rows french breakfast radishes, three rows bacchus radishes. (Plan: nightshades)
• D7: 4/? Tomatoes planted in walls of water.. 4/21 Harvested collards, dug in compost, planted some tomatoes in walls of water. 2025: Overwintered collards
• D8:. 5/12 rest of tomatoes planted, but groundhog ate most. 4/21 Planted two tomatoes in walls of water. 4/18 Dug in compost.
• D12: 5/26 first strawberries. 4/4 added some day neutral strawberries, last year’s Strawberries