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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