Transplanting summer crops: peppers, basil on 4/25

Reminder: This Thursday is the UT Organic Farming and Gardening Field Day. You can register on-site. Call 865-974-7201 for more info. 

Transplanting summer crops: Last week we had a smaller crew, but we transplanted 48 Roma tomato plants that we had planned. We potted up the leftover plants and donated them to the St. Mary’s school plant sale. If we have extras I will let you all know. 

The Roma seedlings in the black tray were our contribution to the plant sale. We hope it helped raise some funds for the garden club at St. Mary’s School.

Next week we will transplant peppers and basil at 6pm on Monday, 4/25. We also need to help maintain the mulch pile. If you go work on the pile, please try to make sure that the mulch gets piled onto the wooden pad. We are trying to keep the grasses from growing up into the pile.

We need to help shape the pile so that it rest completely on the wooden pad.

Here are some pictures of the garden: 

Our weekly picture of the garden.

Baby radish seedlings.

News from Ss. Isidore and Maria Garden: Tom and I hitched up a John Deere garden tractor to my old truck and rode over to Alice’s house to till up the garden one last time. Our plan is to put down some ground cover to control weeds. We will install drip irrigation on top of the ground cover. Then we will seed butternut squash and sweet potatoes for late summer storage crops for the food pantry.

Thanks also to Walter and Kathy for stopping by and helping us plan out our next steps.

This is Tom’s John Deere garden tractor on a borrowed trailer on the back of my truck. The freshly tilled garden is in the background.

Wish List Update: 

-We need leaves and shredded yard trimmings for compost (no sticks, no herbicide)

-Landscape fabric for a future compost setup

We do not need any seedlings at this time. We have peppers and basil on the way.