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.

Note: All cucurbits sprayed with surround every so often, since early June, except Trombocino (too tough) and A12 (covered until July 1(?), then sprayed). All fruiting crops got regalia at planting, and once more in June. All tomatoes, plus summer squash and some okra got Tomatotone on 7/7.

Large harvest of turnips, radishes, lettuce, some carrots and strawberries happened on 6/2

• A1: Overwintered Egyptian walking onions, arugula, parsley and tarragon.
• A2: Late June, last lettuce harvest, new starts added June 10. 4/4 Lettuce and parsley starts
• A3: 6/30 Cabbage whiteflies returned, pulled rest of collards and kale. Threw in some cilantro seeds (7/7). 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: Last week of June, first cukes. Leeks harvestable. Lettuce done. 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: June 10, turnips done, some beets left. Diva anadd Suya cukes planted on trellis. 3/14: hakurei turnips and beets planted (plan cukes)
• A9: 7/4 first few cherry tomatoes 5/12 Tomatoes planted: Bumblebee, sunpeach, sungold, black cherry, annarita, black krim. Overwintered cilantro
• A11: 7/7 First trombocino harvested. 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: 7/1 ish, insect netting removed, plants are flowering. 6/10 Safari and Sephyr added, more arugula moved. . 5/26 Yellow crookneck squash added, some arugula moved.. 2025: Overwintered arugula (Plan summer squash)
• B1: As of July 10, still some edible lettuce, added parsley at some point. 5/12 cut and come again lettuce ready for thinning. 4/4 Lettuce starts, 3/29 Lettuce seeds
• B2: 7/10 faqous heavily flowering, no cukes yet. 6/30 first corintos. 5/12 Farouq and Corinto cukes planted along with Thai and Genovese basil and dill seeds. . 4/4 lettuce starts 3/29 more radish 3/14: Four kinds of radishes planted, occupying right 3/4 of bed
• B3: 6/10 peanuts and Ethiopian and Thai basil in, puntarelle out except one.. 4/21 first puntarelle harvest 4/4 bulbing onions, overwintered puntarelle
• B5: 6/27 Harvested last red cabbage. 6/9 Good mother stoller beans planted. 6/6 Primo cabbage and one red cabbage harvested. 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
• B10: Early July bed uncovered, serious aphid infestation, distorted leaves. 6/10 Hill country and white velvet (PHS) and sweet potato slips. And one papalo. overed. June – peas recovered enough to eat,5/12 Some napa harvested. Peas probably too bird eaten. 4/4 nappa cabbage starts, 3/12: snow peas planted (plan okra/sweets)
• B11: 6/10 Marine Kabocha squash and Canary melon starts. Alyssum starts. Lots of volunteer marigolds. 5/26 First fava harvest, 5/10 first fava beans appear. 4/18 first fava flowers. Favas (planted fall), no alliums (plan: cucurbits)
• B12: 6/10 Garlic harvested, Watermelon starts planted. 5/26 Scapes harvested. Garlic and spinach (planted fall) (plan: cucurbits)
• C1: 6/23 last turnip harvested, malabar spinach starts planted. 6/2 last radish harvest. 4/21 first radishes. replanted with more radishes and some hakurei turnips 3/29 Bacchus radish
• C2: 6/10ish Dragon tongue beans planted. 4/28 peas ready to trellis. 3/14: snow peas planted; cilantro and lettuces remain in bed
• C5: 6/16(?) Limas planted. 6/13(?) Garlic harvest. 5/26 scape harvest. Garlic and spinach (planted fall) Plan: no cucurbits or nightshades
• C8: 6/10 Sweet potatoes added. 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 with italian basil. 4/28 Mustard harvest. 4/4, mustard greens and scallion starts (Plan: Tomatoes)
• C12: First week of July, first shishitos. 5/12 peppers planted 4/28 Kale harvest 4/22 first bok choy harvest. 4/4 bok choy, kale. (Plan: Tomatoes)
• D1: 6/23 Malabar spinach starts (got a few peas in June. 4/28 peas ready for trellis. 3/14: snap peas and lettuce planted
• D2:7/7 day neutral strawbs producing. Kind of meh. 5/9 first fava bean appeared. 6/10 thai and genovese basil added. 4/18ish first fava flowers. 4/4 day neutral strawberries planted, favas (planted in fall); no cucurbits or nightshades
• D3: 6/10 Honeynut squash starts. 6/6 Buttercup squash starts6/2 last turnip harvest. 3/29 hakurei turnips
• D4: 6/10 Aunt Hettie’s Red and White Velvet Okra and sweets planted. Some beets harvested. 4/4 bulbing onions, 3/29 mixed beets
• D5: 7/11 First eggplants probably ready to harvest, but plants are weak. 5/12 planted two eggplant, one limo, one scorpion, tulsi 4/28 first radishes. 3/22 Three rows french breakfast radishes, three rows bacchus radishes.
• D7: . 7/9 various tomatoes ready. . 6/29 first matina harvested. 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:. 7/7 Various tomatoes ready, first cuore di bue. . 7/2 first bear creek. 5/16 (?) Replaced with more tomatoes. 5/12 rest of tomatoes planted, but groundhog ate most.I talian basil. 4/21 Planted two tomatoes in walls of water. 4/18 Dug in compost.
• D12: 6/ 21ish last strawberries. 5/26 first strawberries. 4/4 added some day neutral strawberries, last year’s Strawberries