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Naboth Gardens 2022:  Transitioning to Permanant Beds 

With a little help from our friends!

Cold crops getting their start

Delivery from Lauren Joyce Farms! Their composted manure - total game changer!!

The first pathways and beds made for the Cold Crops. (foreground) (the back field awaiting similar preparation)

June, Trish & Jill planting cold crops May 7th 2022

Cold crop beds prepared and planted!

In go the cold crops! (May 7, 2022)

pathways mulched (this changes later)

This was one of my favorite parts! Using stakes and string to mark the field in preparation of the team to come!

Creating walking paths and building up the garden beds!

Many hands make light work!

This really shows the length of the farm!

Horizontal rows almost complete! Next phase - lay plastic on the pathways.

Moving to the perimeter now!

Crossfit competition occurred to see who could lay down the most plastic... because that's what they DO!

Plastic all laid out! Loading up the produce beds with Wood Chip Mulch

Digging into the Wood Chips!

Gordy, 1st one to arrive and never stopped moving!

No time to chit chat - let's get her done! (love these guys!)

I decided to lighten the mulch on pathways - just enough for garden cart traction (pushed it out of the pathways and up onto the beds)

These ladies worked pretty steadily on mulching the Cold Crops!

The crew from Battle Crossfit along with some friends and neighbors! TWELVE helpers in all! wow

One of my FAVORITE volunteers! My grandson helping water in the greenhouse!

Volunteer nasturtium! Always welcome!

Watering precision makes all the difference!

Cousin Hogie came when it was time to plant and water! He's got it going on with the watering!

And he did his share of MULCHING too!!

Jill, Christian and Trish mulching and planting

Christian had a really nice swinging technique with the mulch! Quick quality work.

More plants in the ground! This year decided to stake the Zucchini and Summer Squashes!

Lettuces in the ground and looking great!

Trellises for Tomatoes; getting the buckets set up for watering. YES! Hand-watering again this season!

Me and Jill after Trellis day! I LOVE it!

Voila! Welcome, Brussels!

The last of the Marigolds to go into the ground (Pest control!)

Hello Broccoli!

Sign at the road!

Our First CSA pick-ups 
Naboth Gardens Chichester 7/25/20,
​Little Red Hen Farm, Pittsfiled, 7/27/20

Late June and July 2020

The gloves tell the story!

Trying to keep the pathways clear of weeds.

Offering some support to the tomato plants

Our precious "FIRST cucumber" Creation is truly amazing!

The flower of a Yellow Squash

Our bees at work pollinating! Woohoo!

Great job, honeybees!

HAD to harvest the Kale! CSA's not starting for another 3 weeks.. what to do, what to do!

planted the Blue Hubbard squash June 12th, 2020 by seed

The tomato plants getting their start!

Our Zucchini plants are looking great - just getting started apparently!

Oh my! Zucchini plants VERY HAPPY!

Again.. CSA's not starting for another 3 weeks. Zucchini bread it is!

Another worker bee! Looking good out there!

Brad, our bee keeper, checking on our little friends!

Bob Perkins, our favorite local farmer, checking on our tomato plants

Bob Perkins, showing me the ropes on how to hoe in the onions! Thanks, Bob!

The garden July 8th! Filling in nicely!

In the foreground - the ever abounding Kale! And in the background, Zucchini!

Our first born Cherry tomato!

Where all the CSA magic will happen!

God bless AMERICA!

New friends - joining the farm soon!

July 13th, 2020

Brad checking on the cucumbers!

Our son and a friend!

Just look at that KALE!

July 15, 2020

Straight ahead - cucumbers! surrounded by squash and kale

Making a special delivery of Kale!

Garden visitor

Graden friend

Brad emptying my cart so I can give everything a good rinse!

July 22, 2020 Yellow Squash and Blue Hubbard to the right

I see Yellow Squash, Tomato plants, hot peppers, cucumbers...

Added those cucumber trellis' around July 13th. Next year we'll do that from the start!

July 22nd (Blue Hubbard)

July 22nd Yellow Squash! Massive plants - almost as tall as me.

First sign of a Blue Hubbard!

A honeybee pauses on a leaf - skillfully using it's legs and tongue to secure the pollen!

Tomatoes grow in such an organized uniform way. My kind of fruit!

Preparing the ground and the Green House!  May - June 2020

A local farmer making time to help us till the Winter Rye.

You can see how the Winter Rye helped turn the dry sandy soil into a more nutrient-rich soil

Brad finished the Green House just in time for our plants to move in!

Transporting these precious plugs from a "borrowed" greenhouse home to our new Green House!

Me, Jill and our friend June installing the electric fence!

Brad helping to cut back growth that might interfere with the wire

Hardening off the plants so that they can transition from the GreenHouse to the garden!

Brad and Trish creating rows for the plants to give them plenty of space to root down deep!

Laying down the plastic now - a bit of work doing it by hand but hopefully well worth our efforts!

Our faithful friend, Riley, helping with the rows!

Could the Zucchini be any happier??

It's getting real now! Trish and Jill getting the plants plugged into the rows!

Turns out Brad is a PLANTER! Beautiful job with those cucumbers!

April 23, 2020  Jill and I preparing our starters!  (A special day to start planting - Marshall's 2nd birthday!) 

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The making of our garden:  October/November 2019

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April 12, 2020  (Resurrection Sunday) (COVID-19 pandemic - day 33)
​The installation of our hives.  These bees launch us into our new adventure!   

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