The Princeton Garden Project encourages participants to play with their food. Click on this photo to see this and more photos from the project on the Facebook page.
The student-run organic garden is always open to more helpers. Click here to see posts about growing adventures and the harvests. For more information about the project or to volunteer, email pugardenproject@gmail.com.
The growing season for 2015 begins on Tuesday, on traditional pea-planting day.
Snow may be lingering on the north side of dorms, but spring is here. Garden expert Mike McGrath writes at Gardens Alive: “There are two very good reasons to get peas in the ground on March 17th:
“Peas are not a summer crop. As soon as it gets hot, the vines wither up and depart this mortal coil….and one of the great superstitions of gardening is that is it lucky to plant peas on St. Patrick’s Day.