YTD production= 186 lbs + 12 lbs last week + 5 lbs this week = 203 lbs.
Saturday May 7 and Monday May 9, 2011, interns Rita and Candice, the Crosswind Elementary School Roots & Shoots Club, me, Les, Peg, Whit, Wes and Girl Scout troop moms and girls: (hope I did not leave anyone out)
mowed and edged.
moved some of the dirt to raised beds.
moved most of the leaves to the raised beds.
hand weeded.
harvested sweet peas and reddishes and took to Page Robbins.
planted 25 beauregard and 25 porto rico sweet tater plants.
planted 2 rows top pick purple hull peas.
planted 4 rows pinkeye purple hull peas.
planted 8 better boy maters.
planted burpee slicing cucumbers and yellow straightneck squash between the maters.
planted marigold plants tween the maters.
planted white marigold seeds in aisle side plot 6.
planted 8 CA wonder green bell pepper and 4 black beauty eggplants in plot 6.
put Carbon Boost and catfish emulsion and osmocote in holes where everything was planted.
provided product of modern chemistry on bug infested taters.
watered all new plants (Monday).
reapplied poison on the ant hill.
conducted tour for Jim Townsend, Farm Manager, Binghampton Community Garden.
broccoli is almost ready to pick.
all plants donated by halls feed and bonnie farms.
Thursday 7am I will harvest some onions, sweet peas, reddishes, and all the greens and take to the Food Pantry.
We found an adult rabbit head in plot 1 today, and the rear spigot had been disassembled and reattached leaving most of the hardware on the ground.
We NEED to front wheel of the wheel barrow fixed and the rear spigot reassembled.
Next Monday we plant remaining rows in plots 1 and 2 with purple hull peas, and continue moving dirt into the raised beds so we can put more plants in them.
Aint God good!!!
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