Friday, June 3, 2016

Tosa Farmer's Market

Tomorrow Metro Mountain Bikers, your local IMBA Chapter, will have a booth at the Tosa Farmers Market. Yes, the streets are closed off, but not on the weekends. It is very accessible.

The Fondy Market appears to be an extensive organization with a focus on providing produce in what some see as inner city food deserts; or is it desserts? I only know that one is usually found to be delicious.

I’ve been busy with the soil myself. I am installing another raised bed. That is all the soil it is getting this year. I’ll add another 7 cubic feet of one part compost – one part vermiculite & perlite - and one part peat moss next year. I put some cardboard on the bottom before filling to attract worms. The compost is of my own making.

The cucumbers and other salad vegetables will be going in today. We are a bit late in some things but have started enjoying spinach from our garden, in another bed, already this week. Look at those potatoes grow and the raspberries…..

Growing some beans this year. I am hoping they are pole beans; the package didn’t specify. I was surprised all the seeds took so I thinned things out a bit and put some of the plants in the ground beside the container, giving them a fighting chance. I don’t like to destroy plants or any living things, like that barberry in the back ground, even when they are a nuisance. When I see a bee in the house I escort it outside. We have many fascinating bugs around with our eclectic garden. When my wife sees a bug she has only one thing to say,”Kill it.”

But if I want to expand my garden, so my wife and I can live off our fraction of an acre, that unruly hostile barberry beast will have to go. I just don’t have any other place to put it.

It is time to celebrate Wisconsin Bike Week. It started yesterday and runs for eleven days… Don’t ask me, ask the Wisconsin Bike Fed.

Metro held their first Wednesday night race this past Wednesday. That had yet to be nailed down last meeting and am surprised I am first hearing about it today.

My bike? Still to be prepped for the season; as soon as the garden is all in.

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