Victory Garden status Thursday June 21, 2012
On Monday Norma Montesi and I picked some cukes and squarsh, flattened the old leaf pile so it can be mowed over, and she pruned the flowers and buds off the basil.
Today I picked some large maters and along with the squarsh and cukes we picked on Monday and a bouquet of basil, took 46 lbs to the Food Pantry. Should have, Lord willing, some purplehull peas next week.
2,183 lbs YTD + 46 today = 2,229 lbs for 2012.
Laura Ruth took 14 vases of zinnias and basil to Baptist Hospice House.
Rick Pudwell is cutting some zinnias and sunflowers next Monday for a meeting.
We still have lots of basil for anyone to pick as it needs continuous pruning.
We still have lots of basil for anyone to pick as it needs continuous pruning.
If someone can, the garden and the compost pile inside the stockade need mowing and trimmed.
Lots of basil needs trimming and taken to a nice home, else it will bolt!
Something worth reading and considering about Natural Farming:
Here's a short excerpt:
Invariably our peasant visitors were puzzled about our opposition to
ploughing. I would dig up some soil and show them how many more
insects and worms we had. Farmers had no difficulty understanding that
those were our ploughmen. I used to ask them, with so many millions of
tireless ploughmen in the soil, where was the need for us to plough?
Some observant visitors used to point to weeds, cobwebs, frogs, algae,
and other signs of untidiness in our fields. I used to tell them that if they
compared their own crop with ours they would find our input costs lower
and yields much higher. The choice was theirs.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UK-council-lifts-gag-on-9-year-old-food-critic-3636916.php#ixzz1yREYxRiU
Aint God good!
Thank You, Lord, for making perfect weather for gardening for almost a year.
cw
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