Huron Hometown News

Submitted by Mulberry Creek Herb Farm

Itching to plant?  Let’s go AS LONG AS THE SOIL IS DRY

___SPRING HARVEST
1.  Tired of salad greens?  Seed or plant summer veggies
2.  Leave 1” of greens, lettuce and spinach-may re-grow
3.  Pull green onions
4.  Pull kohlrabi, cut off stems, peel, slice, eat fresh
5.  Pull rhubarb stalks and use stalks only
6.  Harvest asparagus by cutting at ground level

___SUMMER VEGETABLES TAKE OVER
1.  Tired of salad greens?  Seed or plant summer veggies
2.  You need to re-nourish your soil
     -Apply a layer of compost
    in row or over bed
     -Sprinkle with organic fertilizer
     -Till or hand spade in; Dig deeply, Tread lightly
3.  Examples
     -Seed 10’ of bean seeds where
    the spinach grew
     -Plant late potatoes where the
    radishes were
4.  Plant early, main and late season
of some crops
     -Corn
     -Beans, snap or lima (late varieties NA)

___COMPANION PLANT WHEREVER FEASIBLE
1.  Neighbors can help each other in many ways
2.  Get those herbs in with vegetables
Examples:
   basil helps pepper or tomato
   lovage with beans
   bee balm with tomato
   marigold & potato, rose or tomato
   borage with bean or strawberry
   mint with cabbage or tomato
   chamomile & tarragon help all
   onion with beet, cabbage or lettuce
   chervil with radish
   oregano with bean
   chives & carrot, rose or tomato
   rosemary with bean
   dill & cabbage, onion or lettuce
   sage with cabbage, carrot, or tomato
   garlic loves roses, or course
   savory with bean or onion
   horseradish with tomato
   thyme & eggplant, potato or tomato
3.  Enemy combinations-don’t get too excited about this
Examples:
   chives/garlic detest bean or peas
   fennel fights bean or pepper
   cilantro fights fennel onion detests bean, pea or sage
   dill detests carrot or tomato
   wormwood’s bad for most vegetables