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Start onions indoors
Start Brussels sprouts indoors
Start broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, lettuce, Chinese cabbage indoors
Direct sow Spinach, mustard, beets, peas, edible podded peas
Transplant Cabbage, kohlrabi outdoors, direct sow Asparagus and rhubarb (crowns), beets, carrots, collards, kale, mustard, spinach, peas, edible podded peas, early potato seed pieces, radishes, turnips, green onions, onion sets, endive, Start indoors Peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, sweet potato slips. Dig and divide any 4-year-old rhubarb plants. Fertilize asparagus and rhubarb with 1 lb 5-10-10 per 100 sq ft.
Start broccoli, cauliflower, collards, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, Swiss chard, onions from seeds. Plant mustard, spinach, radishes, lettuce, Swiss chard outdoors
Start muskmelons, watermelons, squash indoors, Plant sweet corn, beets, carrots, mustard, spinach, radishes, lettuce outdoors
Plant sweet corn, mustard, radishes, lettuce outdoors
Plant green beans, lima beans outdoors, Transplant tomatoes, muskmelons, watermelons, squash outdoors
Plant sweet corn, Transplant sweet potatoes outdoors
Sow sweet corn, late potatoes, summer squash, bush beans, lettuce, parsnips, beets, carrots outdoors
Sow sweet corn (early maturing variety), carrots, beets outdoors
Sow seeds of fall cole crops in a nursery area
Sow sweet corn (early maturing variety), kale, mustard, turnips, summer squash
Transplant fall cole crops to permanent location between now and Aug. 15 outdoors, sow peas, edible podded peas, bush beans, radishes, beets, mustard outdoors. Divide old rhubarb or plant crowns if not done in spring.
Sow radishes, spinach, turnips, turnip greens, beets, mustard, lettuce, endive outdoors
Sow radishes, spinach, mustard outdoors
Sow radishes, mustard, turnips, turnip greens outdoors
Sow radishes outdoors
Sow sets of Egyptian tree or multiplier onions. Harvest carrots before heavy freeze
Dig parsnips and store at 32-40°F, or mulch parsnips heavily in the ground
Welcome to REDDENGARDENS
We are an allotment garden in Covington, Kentucky's Eastside Neighborhood, where individuals rent plots to grow vegetables for themselves and their families. There are also many things planted along the outside of the fence that anyone is allowed to pick. Please do not be shy. Our berry plants, particuarly one very fruitful blackberry near the 10th street intersection with Scott, are going to be the star of the show this year as they reach productive maturity but our tomatoes and peppers will hit their strides around July or August. You are also welcome to pick the flowers outside the fence as well but we ask that you stick to those that produce multiple blooms so everyone can enjoy their beauty, including the pollinators. If you are unsure how to pick or what plants are edible, please ask someone you see in the garden if they might be able to help or contact us directly.
Excess produce from inside the garden is shared outside the fence with a giving table we will put out when the first appreciable harvests start, which usually means June with the summer squash but could be sooner. Be sure also to check out the Covunity Fridge project along the alley to the north of the green building. The motto is take what you need, leave what you can! Always open thoughout the whole year. There is also a microwave and hot and cold water station. Currently being rebuilt, we hope to reinstall our Sunflower sharing library for books in 2023!
In addition to our original garden at 909 Scott, we help facilitate a smaller community garden in Goebel Park near the pollinator garden in the northwest corner of the park and planted a Pollinator Garden and Urban orchard on the north and south ends of nearby Randolph Park, respectively.
In the past, we in partnership with The Center For Great Neighborhoods and the Civic Garden Center have offered a Victory Gardens initiative which paired neighborhood mentors with novice gardeners and at home gardens. Fifteen families/homes are selected for victory gardens and given the supplies and materials to build and plant a 4x8 raised bed or a container garden based on what they like to eat. Our gardeners are paired with mentors to guide them along the way and answer their questions. Free classes were also offered through the Civic Garden Center. This has been on hiatus since 2022.