Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 23 Entries. Monday, January 1 View Page Happy New Year to all! Made it to the summit this morning of Mt. Holyoke. Views of the Connecticut River, Berkshires, NH, VT, CT. A Bald Eagle was circling the summit. Our first time up here.   Saturday, January 20 View Page Boston Harbor Winter Wildlife Cruise. 20 degrees and a three-hour tour. No Snowy Owls this year, but a lot of Harbor Seals.   Friday, February 16 View Page GPC Big Show in Kasterlee, Belgium. We had fantastic hosts! It was great to meet growers from all over the world. On Saturday there was also a separate offsite tour option. Congrats to all of the award winners! Learned a lot. Great people, great food, and great drinks!   Saturday, March 30 View Page We had our SNGPG spring meeting in Exeter, RI today. Congrats to all who received awards.   Saturday, April 6 View Page Started two Connolly 1,375 seeds today. Great color and shape, and a proven in small plots. Also started a bunch of vegetable seeds. Celebrity, Super Sweet 100 tomatoes, and cucumbers will be started later.   Saturday, April 13 View Page Today is opening day/clean-up day at the community garden in Boston. We raked and bagged a ton of leaves, and cleaned up branches and sticks that fell during the winter. While Boston only got about 12 inches of snow this winter, we did have a lot of wind. After clean-up, we paid the annual fee and signed the contract. Once again, we went with Winter Rye as our cover crop-planted it around Halloween of last year. Took soil samples today that will be going to UMass soon.   Saturday, April 13 View Page Corner shot of my girlfriend's vegetable garden. While the Winter Rye is a bit spotty in each of our gardens, it still did a very good job of blocking out weeds.   Saturday, April 13 View Page The fence on the West side of my plot partially collapsed this winter and is now leaning over private property. A few posts rusted out and completely separated from the concrete. Boston Parks is aware-as far as when it will be repaired, who knows? As a precaution I will not be starting any plants on this side of the garden. Hopefully repairs do not lead to any plant damage in my garden.   Monday, April 22 View Page Dropped off soil samples today at the Paige Laboratory at UMass Amherst. A beautiful day for a drive.   Saturday, April 27 View Page Reminds me of a ZZ Top song from back in the day.   Sunday, April 28 View Page Much better now in two gallon pots with stakes.   Friday, May 10 View Page 69 degrees indoors. I thought about building a hoop house, but since there would be no heating cables and it would be offsite, we decided to simply keep the plants indoors until the soil is warm enough to go outside.   Saturday, May 11 View Page The Winter Rye got a bit away from us. First time here since clean up day.   Saturday, May 11 View Page My girlfriend’s vegetable garden.   Saturday, May 11 View Page First stop this morning was Home Depot in Quincy. We rented a Mantis Tiller. Light enough to simply carry into the garden. Also used a hand tiller for the edges and rock borders.   Saturday, May 11 View Page Lots of green manure.   Saturday, May 11 View Page A couple Robins feasted on some worms. These birds must spend a lot of time in the park around people. They came up very close to us.   Saturday, May 11 View Page Fortunately Boston Parks fixed the fence.   Saturday, May 11 View Page We cleaned up the Rose Garden too.   Saturday, May 11 View Page The other end of the community gardens looking North.   Saturday, May 11 View Page Leaving the park. All done for the day. Time for a very late lunch in Dorchester.   Monday, May 13 View Page Hardening off some veggies that we started from seed.   Monday, May 13 View Page The pumpkins are out front for a few hours.