C.S.A. Week 2

We usually plant in blocks, all the beets together, all the carrots, the beans, the squash, the brassicas, and so on. We do this out of habit and for ease of rotating the crops the best we can. Each type of plant has different nutritional needs, different diseases, and different pests. On a scale so small as ours it’s hard to know how much the rotation matters but we do it anyway.

. Last year was just so wet, both Kyle and I found ourselves dragging our feet this winter about garden planning, our 2023 farming depression spilling into the winter. I found myself thinking about the section of beans that submerged on July 4th last year, as well as the ends of the cabbage beds that sat amongst semi-permanent puddles and wishing the damage and been spread out more a bit. I also thought about this one beautiful kale plant last year that somehow snuck itself into the bed of zinnias and how it avoided the fall aphid onslaught the rest of the kale falls prey to seasonally.

So, this year we decided to spread things out, to see if would help slow down pests that jump easily from our first planting to the next successions, and to hedge our bets against any weather-related problems. It made prepping the garden a little more complicated and it still to be determined if the pest or disease pressure will be less, but the garden is awfully pretty to look out right now, I’m enjoying the varied visuals immensely.

Please choose 8 items

• Broccoli

• Summer squash/Zucchini mix

• Kohlrabi

• Kale

• Butter lettuce

• Beets

• Chard

• Scallions

• Basil

• Parsley