Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Zucchini grows quickly?

Today is Wednesday and St. Joe's Food Program will be joining us prior to our home game this evening...along with our friends at WVBO.
So, I took a quick walk to the garden to gather up any produce that was ready. Quite a few more beans and tomatoes were ready for harvest. I pulled out the last of the kohlrabi. And the zucchini was out of control, really. Last week the large yellow blossoms only had tiny vegetables coming from them. Fast forward about 8 days and wah-lah, a rather large outcome. Maybe I just missed this one last week.




Thursday, August 5, 2010

Salvation Army's Community Garden

So, when I dropped off the box of produce at the Salvation Army yesterday afternoon, a noticed a row of burlap sacks and some car tires along the fence lining the parking lot. The sacks were plump full (with dirt and compost I suppose) and had all sorts of different plants protruding from them.
The Community Garden Partnership has some great programming and established gardens in our area with a main purpose being to teach folks how to grow their own food, sustainably. They have several gardens in the area, but I wasn't aware of the Salvation Army location until yesterday.
I happened to have a camera in the car, so helped myself to a few photos. Robb Waugus, Development Director for the Salvation Army, probably grew curious as to why someone would be hanging out in the parking lot photographing the garden. He joined me outside for a brief chat about his garden... and mine.-

This is creative, space-saving gardening at its best...









Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Beans Galore!

Finally, after quite a stint of patience, we have green beans!
The pole bean vines have been slowly winding their way up the strings that form a tee-pee structure around the center pole. They had such a slow start that I wasn't sure we'd even get any results from the plants. But alas, they're here! They helped fill up another box of produce on its way to the Salvation Army this afternoon.