Collective and City Harvest Planting Chart

Map of Hansberry Garden plots by number

2025 Notes on Beds (sorted by Column Number)

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

  • A1: 5/5 green onions always ready for harvest. 4/6 Parsley added near tarragon. 3/29 tarragon moved from high bed to end of bed, other end planted with arugula. 3/18 Onions moved from A12;
  • A2: 5/5 everything ready for light harvesting. 3/23 Planted Capitan lettuce, corn lettuce, French breakfast radishes, greens mix, Easter egg radish, puntarelle, spinach, capitan, Easter egg
  • A3: TBD
  • A5: 3/15 Sugar Snap peas planted (magnolia, sugar daddy, and sugar snap (?)) (planned – peppers/eggplant)
  • A8: 5/5 broccoli raab is bolting, should be harvested or pulled. Garbanzo harvest should be mid-June. 3/23 Bok Choy harvested, some donated to community fridge; Planted broccoli rabe, garbanzos, all-star lettuce
  • A9: 5/5 radish harvest underway (planned – beans); 3/23 planted Detroit Red beet, Napoli carrot, Bacchus radish, Goldor beet, Dragon carrot, Chioggia beet, French Breakfast radishes
  • A11:( planned – beans or summer squash); 3/15 Cleared;
  • A12: 4/15 collard starts added, leeks added to edges; 4/1 Collards planted, 3/15 Cleared;
  • B1: 4/6 lettuces from Weavers Way
  • B2: TBD
  • B3: 5/13 Cucumbers (Little Leaf, Corinth, and Palestinean Faqous) planted
  • B5: 3/25 Snow peas and Sugar Ann snap peas planted, interplanted lettuce starts (peas are getting a very slow start); (planned – cukes)
  • B11: 5/11 Tomatoes planted (Varieties: Gin Fizz, Paul Robeson, two mystery, Bumblebee, Jaune Flamme, Orange Oxheart) . Lettuce remaining in bed. 5/5 radish and greens harvest underway (planned: tomatoes); 3/25 Cover crop dug under (vetch mix), Crunchy King and French Breakfast radishes interplanted with assorted lettuces and greens (planned: tomatoes)
  • B12: 5/11 Tomatoes and basil planted. (Tomato varieties: Cherokee Purple, Matina, John Henry, Goldie, Green Zebra, Blue Beech, Brandy Boy, Speckled Roma) 5/2 soil added (planned: tomatoes)
  • C1 (City): 4/6 lettuces from City Harvest and Weavers Way added; 3/18 Snow peas and snap peas planted;
  • C2: 4/15 added mustards, curly and lacinato kale starts, bulbing onions around edges (walla walla, redwing, patterson); 3/29 amended (char), replanted cilantro,
  • C5: 5/5 Bok choy almost ready for harvest (planned – climbing squash or melon) ; 4/15 bok choy starts added (turnip harvest should start about 5/13) ; 3/29 planted half with hakurei turnips
  • C8 (City): 5/13 cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers
  • C11: 4/29 new soil added (planned: okra and sweet potatoes); 4/15 beets transferred to A9; 3/25 Cover crop dug under (pea mix), Boro beets in half the bed
  • C12: (5/5) Radish harvest underway; 3/15 Garlic from fall sowing, radishes planted between rows. (garlic harvest expected mid- to late June. (planned: okra and sweets).
  • D1 (City): 4/6 pulled kale and planted lettuces from City Harvest: 3/15 Overwintered kale; amended with fortified biochar;
  • D2: 5/12 tomatoes planted
  • D3: Peppers (ají limo, ají amarillo, and balik) and eggplant (Turkish delight and Ping Tung)
  • D5: 4/15 nappa cabbage (harvest soon) and piccadilly cabbage (harvest mid- to late-June); (planned – climbing squash or melon.)
  • D7 (City): 4/15 collards and kales (and maybe mustards), onions around edges
  • D8 (City): 5/7 pulled one aphid infested kale plant; 4/6 planted kale and collards for city Harvest, planted red onions from Weavers Way
  • D12: Strawberries and borage

Mid-summer goal:

The following plan balances nightshades, cucurbits, beans and other things for summer. Shady beds can continue to produce until it gets too hot, then can fallow until August. Most brassicas (kale, collards) will continue to produce over the summer.

  • Three tomato beds (planted)
  • Two pepper/eggplant beds (one planted)
  • Two cuke beds (one pickling, one slicing) (one planted)
  • One summer squash bed
  • One winter squash or melon bed
  • Three pole bean beds (one lima, one Good Mother Stollard, one Yellow Romano)
  • Two okra/sweet potato beds
  • Herbs and flowers as borders (basil, dill, nasturtium, marigold, onions).

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Late summer goal: plant winter radishes, rutabagas, frost tolerant greens

Late fall goal: plant garlic, favas

Other notes (first week of May): Broccoli rabe on shady side of bed are bolting before maturity. Lettuce harvest began. May in most beds. Peas in A5 are in bloom, in C3 tall enough to trellis, but B5 are still quite small.