Collective Planting Chart

2024 Notes on Beds (sorted by Row Number)

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

  • A2: Escarole and radicchio harvested and donated to City Harvest week of 6/30. New lettuce seed planted week of 6/30. planted (5/19): Escarole added, radishes mostly harvested.Three-heart lettuce, mesclun, French breakfast radishes planted 3/26
  • B2: (update 4/7) Red lettuce, green onions and walking onions, plus volunteer borage (update 3/24) Brassicas and walking onions that wintered over from last year
  • C2: (updated 4/16): cleared and planted with carrots and beets. (update 3/24) Contains some cilantro that has replanted itself from last year
  • D2: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Treated with Regalia 6/24. Dill seeds planted 6/2. Update 5/28. Cucumbers and bush beans planted. (update 3/24) Collards and kale that wintered over from last year
  • D3: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Treated with Regalia 6/24. Cucumbers planted. (update 3/29) Fertilized and planted with broccoli rabe, spinach, hakurei turnips
  • D4: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Treated with Regalia 6/24. Fertilized 6/12. Fertilized 5/29 (mid-May)Tomatoes, with marigold and basil. Varieties: Cherokee Purple (2), Brandy Boy, Blue Beech (2), Dr Wyches Yellow, Striped German, Italian Giant Beefsteak, Brad’s Atomic Grape, Sungold Cherry update 4/14: Cleared, PVC tomato trellis erected.  (update 3/24) Old-Timey Blue collards and lettuce that wintered over from last year
  • A5: Treated with Spinosad 6/29. Treated with Regalia 6/24. (5/19): Bok Choy harvested. Updated 4/21: Old Timey Blue and Green Glaze Collards, Willem’s Blauwe Groninger Kale planted. Bed is now fully planted out. Updated 4/16: bok choy planted.  Updated 4/14: collards shady side, napa cabbage sunny side.
  • B5: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Treated with Regalia 6/24. Fertilized 6/12. Fertilized 5/29. (5/19) Eggplants and peppers planted. Pepper varieties: Ají Dulce, Mystery pepper, Elephant ear, Pippin’s Golden Honey, Costeño Rojo, Shishito, Fish. Eggplant varieties: Listada de Gandia. Ping Tung
  • C5: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Tomatoes treated with Regalia 6/24. Fertilzed 6/12. Fertilized 5/29. (Updated 5/19): Willow-leaf lima and Christmas lima planted by trellis. Updated 4/21: Bear Creek, Goldie, Blue Bear Creek, Brandy Boy, and Paul Robeson tomatoes planted. (update 4/7)Compost added, 8 Walls o’water set up for tomatoes. Beans to be planted by trellis. (update 3/24) Cover crop
  • D5: Pole beans planted 5/28. (updated 4/14): cleared. Beans to be planted here. (update 3/24) Some lettuce that wintered over and radishes
  • D7: Sweet potato slips planted 6/25. Varieties: Murasaki and Nancy Hall. (update 3/24) Peas and garbanzo beans, planted March 8
  • B11: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Okra and sweet-potato slips planted early June. Okra varieties: Cajun Jewel and White Velvet. Orange sweet potatoes (variety name unknown). Penn State lab determined that allium leaf mites caused the problem with garlic. Garlic pulled 6/2. Samples to be sent to Penn State Extension to detrmine what caused some bulbs to rot. (update 3/24) Garlic, planted last year, harvest expected early June, and French breakfast radishes, harvest expected by May
  • C11: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Treated with Regalia 6/24. Fertilized 6/12. Fertilized 5/29.(5/19) peppers planted among favas, Varieties: Elephant ears, Ají mango, Balik, Serrano, Hungarian hot wax, Tatli üçburun, Shishito. Mustard Harvested. (update 3/24) Fava beans, planted last November, harvest expected in June, and red mustard that overwintered
  • D11: Onion seeds planted 7/8. (update 3/24) Thyme, tarragon, and parsley that overwintered
  • A12: Treated with Regalia 7/8. Treated with Regalia 6/24. Fertilized 6/12. Fertilized 5/29. Pepper (was supposed to be ají límo, but instead appears to be elephant ear) planted 5/19. Updated 4/21: Matina and Fiaschetto tomatoes planted. One more fiaschetto to be planted. Radish seeds planted. (updated 4/7) compost added, 6 walls o’ water set up for tomatoes. Two ají peppers to be planted here (update 3/24) Arugula that overwintered
  • B12: Radishes, beets, carrots (update 3/24) This bed needs maintenance and will be replaced by experimental concrete planks, probably in June. Can be planted with fast-maturing spring crops.
  • C12: Shallots
  • D12: Strawberries