Mini Tour + Lavender fest + work days
Greetings St. Mary’s Gardener: Thanks for keeping up with our news. We work hard to serve our neighbors at the St. Joseph’s food pantry with freshly grown food from our garden without depleting our soil resources. Please enjoy our news and stay in touch. Please note our wish list toward the bottom of this message if you would like to donate to our cause.
Thank you to those who donated supplies and funds we received a soil multimeter this week. The meter can test soil moisture, pH, and light.
I made an initial purchase using funds from the Pope Francis Charitable Trust Fund. We found our new harvesting bins very useful. I am especially impressed with their stickability. We received some of our new weeding tools. We will test them out next week. Next I plan to purchase some seed.
Work Days
Lavender festival garden visits: Feel free to stop by the garden and visit with our neighbors who want to learn about our garden and our mission. Friday-Sunday, 6/17-6/19.
Friday: 1-4
Saturday: 3-6
Sunday: 1-4
Monday, 6/20 ~6PM we will hoe weeds in pathways, hand weed between plants (or try out our new tools), plant some more okra, check on our corn, and maintain the tomato trellis.
Tuesday, 6/21 Evening harvest ~6PM. Please get in touch with Jason if you plan to help.
Wednesday, 6/22 Morning harvest and delivery ~845AM. Please get in touch with Jason if you plan to help.
Of course we welcome gardeners who want to work at any time. Please let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to give Jason S. a call or a text and we can think through a small project that will make a difference in the garden.
The are approximate price values assigned to each crop so that we can compare quantities: Herbs $2/bunch, squash and peppers are $3/lb, and all others are $3/bunch.
MINI TOUR! Here’s a quick late Spring tour. We expect to harvest a lot more greens and basil this coming week. Peppers and zucchini are starting. Soon we will have green beans and tomatoes.
Kale in our east edge bed
Healthy squash plants in bed #1.
Happy tomato vines in bed #2. Basil grows down the middle of the row. We have a special seed saving project happening in this growing bed.
Beans growing up our bean tee-pee in bed #3. We have a lot more beans in this bed. Also, I am fairly sure that I took care of those weeks on Monday evening.
Delicious peppers in bed #4.
Our first okra seedlings in bed #5.
We planted our corn under this row cover hoping that this will deter the creature that seems to eat up all of our seed. We had four lucky plants that made it. We expect a lot more than that soon. Maybe we should collect those seed since these four were able to thwart the culprit! We will plant out the remaining parts of the row in a couple of weeks.
