We had a lovely morning getting new seeds and sprouted plant babies for our fall crop. We headed to a Mahoney's that would be near a farmer's market, and we really lucked out! The nursery was basically a ghost town, but it was 9:30am on a Saturday... We picked up seeds for spinach, kohlrabi, gourmet carrots, gourmet beets, oat grass, radish, and turnips. There were no kale seeds, so we got some red Russian kale seedlings. There were Bok Choy seedlings right next to them so of course we gave them a home too :).
We then headed over to the farmer's market and purchased a $60 haul. Just like at the nursery, I would have been happy to buy everything I saw :). We got rhubarb, strawberries, heirloom tomatoes, heirloom (stripey!) eggplant, purple orange and yellow bell peppers, blueberries, pluots, bananas, a whole chicken that had been raised like a chicken and hand-slaughtered, and fresh-caught scallops and haddock. Ohh yes we did.
After some lunch we headed out to the garden to move our now-giant butterfly weed, trim back our ubiquitous but slowing cucumber plant, and prepare our fallow squares with new compost. We also moved our friends' strawberries (which were alive and well hidden under other plants, stealthily sending runners through the beans and beets) to a smaller empty box where they could propagate freely. Then we planted the two varieties of spinach and kohlrabi, as well as the kale and Bok Choy seedlings, and called it a day after a good watering for all. Not bad before 3pm. Nap time....
