We really could use some rain, but otherwise the Crestwood gardens are looking good. Peas in the circle garden didn't really take, but there is a healthy cucumber vine, prolific dill, and plenty of volunteer tomato plants growing there instead.
Our next workday is Monday, August 15 from 5:30-7:30! Bring a picnic dinner and join us as we harvest vegetables, pull weeds, and prepare the gardens for the start of the school year (hard to imagine, I know.) We really could use some rain, but otherwise the Crestwood gardens are looking good. Peas in the circle garden didn't really take, but there is a healthy cucumber vine, prolific dill, and plenty of volunteer tomato plants growing there instead. Cucumber close up! An hour of weeding the front garden plots and thinning root vegetables yielded a few small treasures to take home. Can you tell the difference between radishes and little beets? (Hint: beet leaves are smoother and slightly darker green.) We had several volunteers at our recent workday. I think everyone is grateful we had it scheduled before this next awful heatwave hits. Our focus was in the back garden: harvesting garlic and hanging it in the shed to cure (it smells really good in there!), pulling weeds, and working fresh compost into the bare spots. What are they all looking at, I wonder? Ohh. Let's have a closer look at what they found... That's right! A nest of baby bunnies had buried themselves in the garden (so that's who was munching on the beans...) just between the squash leaves and what had been the garlic bed. Of course the kids took pity on them and left signage to let future gardeners know they should tread (and dig) carefully. When you have a relatively short growing season with long, sunny days in high summer, it really is amazing to see how the garden changes from week to week, even sometimes from day to day! By our next workday in August, this will all surely look very different. Won't you join us? MONDAY, AUGUST 15 from 5:30-7:30pm
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Mark your calendars! Next Crestwood community garden workday is Monday, July 18 from 5:30-7:30 Our first summer workday was June 20, and we had a small but hard working crew pulling weeds, hilling potatoes, thinning root vegetables, and pulling more weeds. It was especially nice to see Crestwood teachers volunteering their time when they were probably ready to be away from the school for their well-deserved summer recess. If you missed the first workday, don't despair. We have another community workday coming up NEXT MONDAY, JULY 18 FROM 5:30-7:30PM! Bring your own picnic dinner, wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty, and be prepared to pull weeds! Because we have weeds aplenty. Here's a wheelbarrow full from just an hour's work in the circle garden last week after the storms: You'll notice one big difference at the school. The large ash tree along the sidewalk leading to the east parking lot was a casualty of last week's wild storm. In fact, this section of the property was roped off with caution tape for the last week, making the overflow garden plot by the red wall inaccessible. Cleaning that out is a significant task we'll tackle on Monday along with the main gardens. Maintaining the school gardens over the summer is a big job, but as they say (and as I've said here before), many hands make light work. Hope to see you on Monday!
Cheers, Susan |
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