Hello Gardeners - - - The pepper tree has not been cut down yet because my gardener had problems with his vehicle last week and needed to catch up on his customers' properties. He hopes to do the job at our Garden this week. So far the tree is holding up after the last rain and the big branch over the shed is less than a foot above the shed roof. If it snaps I don't think it will do too much damage. My gardener will come through. Sometimes it takes a little patience. PLEASE be careful if you are in or around the shed until it gets cut down. I'd rather you not go in the shed until the tree is cut. Everyone's garden plots are teeming with veggies. And most need to be picked !!! It is nice to see that everyone is picking the communal sugar snap peas along the fence. No worries - - - pick to your heart's content and in a few days more will appear. The same holds true for most of our veggies (except the root vegetables). If you stop picking, your plants will think they are done. The more you pick, the more they continue to produce. And with the cooler weather hanging on, our cool season veggies should continue to produce for many more weeks. There are more broccoli, cabbages, lettuces, etc. than I have ever seen. I think it is safe to say that you have made our community garden a huge success. Thank You Gardeners ! You ROCK :-) If you have too much growing, please drop me an email and let me know what I can harvest for Hunger Ministries. This ministry is run by a Vietnamese woman whose village was burned decades ago and she found herself homeless. When she came to this country, a man stopped her on the street asking if she had anything he could eat. Having been in the same situation in her native country, she couldn't believe this could happen in our country. She told him to wait and she would get him something. She went home, gathered some home-cooked food, and brought it to him. That was 15 years ago and she has been feeding the homeless since. She cooks out of the licensed kitchen at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Claremont. I donate about 50-75% of the veggies I grow in my home garden to Kim for her Hunger Ministry. I just gave her several stalks loaded with brussel sprouts, a few heads of red cabbage, a bag of carrots, and a bag of sugar snap peas. In the summer she gets most of my zucchini and makes loaves and loaves of zucchini bread. (P.S. I will also give some of the extra veggies you allow me to pick to our gracious landlords, Ken and Joan Becker). REQUEST: Please check the two fruit trees that Ann and Tony planted outside our fence. They need to have a deep watering once a week. If you see they are dry - - - please take a little time to water. Thanks. Mary |
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2/23/10posted Mar 12, 2010 11:54 AM by Rob Perhamus |