What another wonderful week!
We got another perfect light rain last night. The seeds are beginning to sprout.
Thursday morning Aug 16 I picked 21 lbs maters, lopes, eggplants, peppers, and peas and took to the Food Pantry.
3,199 lbs YTD + 21 = 3,220 lbs YTD!!!!!!!! Yea!!!!!!!!!!
Our funds balance is $589.39.
The peas are about played out, which means we can clean out those patches and plant more cabbages and greens the last week of September. Les Brannum of Bonnie Plant has once again graciously offered to donate our fall garden bedding plants. Tom Mashour has donated some trial micro organism inoculate fertilizer, June Davidson has donated worm castings tea, and Barbara Culligan donated some blood meal. Aint we blessed!!!
Connie and Laura cut and took fresh zinnias bouquets. Laura took 20 vases full to Baptist Trinity Hospice. This warms my heart and should yours too to be a part of this.
Bob Hathaway and I were in a picture and story on the front page of the Independent News this week. Nice PR for the garden.
GA Crosby suggested we use the pea vines as mulch in the turnip patch and capture the nitrogen in them. GREAT IDEA!!!!
<<Note: I am scheduled to be out of town on business Sunday thru Friday next week and the new seeds NEED TO BE KEPT DAMP!!!>> We have a wand on the front water system and a pistil wand on the rear water system - replaced the wild spraying long wand. I don't expect anything to need picking other than a few of the cantaloupes. I watch for them to turn about half yellow and then if they fall off the vines when I move them, they are ready.
Aint God good!!!
cw
From Savvygardener.com:
In all the recipes for happiness I have ever seen, "something to look forward to" has been given as an important ingredient. Something to look forward to! How rich the gardener, any gardener, is in this particular integrant! For always he looks forward to something if it is only the appearance of the red noses of the Peonies in the spring or the sharp aromas that fills the air in autumn after the frost has touched the herbage."
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