The Gardens on Spring Creek

  What’s Blooming:  Plans for Vegetable Gardening by Mary Miller, Community Garden and Outreach Coordinator, Gardens on Spring Creek   Each growing season brings new opportunities to one’s garden. Whether your garden space is quite small or is large, spring affords the chance to try a new tomato or add beets and chiles to the list of what to grow. As a nearly-lifelong gardener, I have explored growing a bajillion different varieties of vegetables.   Some are abandoned after the first year.   Others remain as favorites forever (or at least as long the seed remains available).   Sometimes treasured varieties are dropped from the trade. At times, it feels easier to go with what I know and plant many of the same crop varieties season over season.   Responsibilities for me include managing the Gardens on Spring Creek’s Garden of Eatin’.   It is a three-quarter acre site wholly dedicated to edible crops and the plants that support those crops.   Think pollinators.   It is a living cl