Happy Friday! Here’s your garden planner for the week from Mother Earth News.

Greetings, gardeners! In case you are new to the Garden Planner, note that our twice-monthly newsletters bring you timely gardening tips and provide a list of customized planting reminders based on your garden plans. Composting in the office often seems like a far-off dream, but here at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS headquarters, we’ve found an office-friendly solution: a repurposed trash can for the collection bin and a compost bin built from pallets. Composting is a natural process, similar to the way nature breaks down leaves and other dead material on the forest floor. If we want to re-create the kind of soft, fertile soil we find under the leaf carpet of a forest rather than the gooey muck of a marsh, we need to think of a compost heap as a living thing that requires the essentials of all living things: air, food, and water in a balanced combination when maintaining a healthy compost pile. Sowing and Planting Reminders from Your Plans You can click on any name to be taken to the relevant GrowGuide for that plant. There are no plants in your garden plans for 2020 which need to be sown under cover or indoors at the moment. Plants you can sow outdoors or plant out over the next two weeks: Borage  Cucumber  Geranium  Johnny Jump Up  Tomato (Large)  Tomato (Small)  General Planting Reminders for your Area You can click on any name to be taken to the relevant GrowGuide for that plant. Sow under cover or indoors: Broccoli  Kale  Sow outdoors or plant out: Beans (Bush Snap)  Beet  Broccoli  Cucumber  Kale  Tomato (Large)  Zucchini  (Please remember that dates for sowing and planting are general recommendations based on the frost dates you have specified. You should always consult instructions on your seed packets and adjust for your local climate and weather if necessary. Plants marked with a * are using custom dates that you specified for the plant or variety.)

Update on The Bridge garden - July sowing suggestions.

Yesterday we had a wonderful group of staff volunteers come to The Bridge garden to help with cleanup. It was a beautiful day and we got so much done! 

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It was a joy to see my coworkers and catch up on their lives as we social distanced, worked and heard about their success stories with their personal gardens.

Bren helped empty the blue shed because we’re getting a new one!

Iya and Bren cleaned up tables and placed everything outside to allow it to solar sterilize.

Maureen deep watered because today is HOT

We found weird worms that I’ve never seen before:( Caenoplana is a genus of land planarians from Australia and New Zealand.  They are known to be in our region.)

Jenny weeded the beds

Tim and Michelle dismantled old garden beds and the compost bins.

Iya used her Tetris skills to pack the dumpster full!

 Who said video game skills don’t transfer to daily life?

It was a wonderful day with friends.

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Here are your growing reminders for this week:

July means fall sowing. Here is a list of what to do now in your garden. Keep seeds covered with bird netting to avoid ants, mice and birds digging them up. This time of year I sow all my seeds in 4" pots because of the warm weather. IF you sow in seed trays they will dry out over night and not sprout.

* Sow leaf lettuce - I grow New Red sails, Butterhead, Olga Romaine

* Sow Broccoli- I grow Waltham or Calabrese

* Sow Beets - For beet greens and pickled beets

*  Sow Carrots - Danvers half long OR Yellowstone; 

       (carrots require constant moisture to sprout which may   take up to 2 weeks. This can be a challenge in the warm         weather.  I sow them in space vacated by other crops, in         the shade of another plant.)

* Sow Sugar Snap Peas - Pole or bush

* Sow Cabbage

Your winter squash should be planted but if you've not done that yet you can still get them growing before the fall frost.

Plan on looking into garlic. I plant mine in the fall in the greenhouse so it is ready to pull in May or June of the following year.