Funky Cold Mizuna

Our first crop of the year is our mizuna, a gourmet plant with spiky, delectable leaves. It loves cool, damp weather, which was pretty much the story of April here on Whidbey. We’ve been able to donate several pounds of the good stuff to Good Cheer and the WIN lunch program already as we wait for all of our other crops to come into their own. The radishes should be up next in a bit, with lettuce coming in soon as well.

Here’s the baby mizuna in early April, before it grew its first set of true leaves:

And again from May 18th (the future!?), growing like a weed (and looking like one too):

This week we planted a full bed of Bull’s Blood Beets from seed and added more tomato plants (kindly donated to the garden project) to the hoophouse. Our next big task is to create some good signage for the garden, so that visitors know what they’re looking at. Even we are starting to lose track with so many good things growing!

Tags: beets, Bull's Blood, community garden, Langley Middle School, mizuna, signage