Let's pick and weed!

Our garden is starting to have some ripe vegetables, like cucumbers, that we need to pick. We will try to meet on Saturday, August 22, at 11 a.m. Be prepared to take some produce home to share with your families. See you there.

Wet garden spot--weeding on Saturday, July 25

UPDATE: Saturday morning, August 1 9:01 a.m:
Sheesh! Will this rain ever stop! Muddy again, and tired of ruining shoes and hosing off for hours after working, so let's wait for some nicer sunny time. Check back again on Wednesday, August 5. Please feel free to stop at the garden any time, though, to pull a few weeds! See you!

Let's get together on Saturday morning, July 25 at about 11 a.m. We really need to weed, and depending on the weather in the next few days, maybe water again, but probably not. Also, a deer damaged our fence and broke a couple of fence posts off, so we will have to replace them, too.
See you there, and remember to call if you need a ride.

Watering today, Wednesday, July 15

The garden is getting dry, so we will be watering today. We need help to get it done quickly. We will meet out at the garden between 5:30-6 p.m. See you there. Call if you need a ride.

Wednesday, July 8--Mini-planting and watering

UPDATE--Due to the nice rain today (Tuesday), we'll wait until Saturday morning to work. We were able to get the pepper plants in the garden during the weekend, so all that's left is the onion sets. We'll meet at about 10:00-10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, and we'll cook some hot dogs for a snack. See you then, and remember to call if you need a ride.
We were able to find some cheap leftover pepper plants at local garden shops, so we can add them to our patch this week, along with a few extra rows of onions. Welcome, summer school students! Let Ms. Yetterboe know if you'd like to help this Wednesday. We'll start getting out there from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. See you there!

July 1 Water and Weed. . .

Water and weed--Wednesday, July 1

Let's get together on Wednesday afternoon/evening for watering and weeding. We'll meet at the garden between 5:30 and 6 p.m. The plants are doing great, but the weeds are getting HUGE! Probably need water by then, too, if it doesn't rain before Wednesday (which it doesn't look like it will.) Make sure to call before 5:30 if you need a ride.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

UPDATE--If it doesn't rain tonight, or look like rain tomorrow (as of Friday, 4 p.m., it does) we will have to water sometime on Saturday morning around 10 a.m. Check back tomorrow morning, or watch the weather channel. Thanks.

Thanks to those gardeners that have been coming out to help! The garden is doing OK today, since we weeded and cultivated a little last Saturday. However, as those of you who were there know, it is too hot to work in the afternoon with this heat wave. We were out at 10 on Saturday, and that was even a little too warm. We will see how the rains treat us today and tomorrow, and possibly on Saturday, June 27, we could go EARLY, like at 8 or 8:30 to water and weed. Watch the blog for info, and we will make sure ithe garden doesn't get too heat stressed before then. Call if you need a ride on Saturday morning.

Muddy day--gardening rescheduled for Saturday, June 20

Wow! All this rain is great for our plants, but not to cultivate and weed. We did get a little tilling done the other day, but today it is too wet to work again. However, we have a huge thistle problem that we will need to control, hopefully this Saturday. We will meet at about 10 a.m. We will bring hot dogs and chips for a little snack when we're done. See you there, and call if you need a ride.

UPDATE--June 13, Saturday morning. The garden is again too muddy to work. Check back to this site on Tuesday to check for our next working day.

After surveying the condition of the garden, and with the threat of rain, we decided that it is too muddy to cultivate. A lot of stuff is up, and on Saturday, June 13, we will meet at the garden at about 10:00 a.m. The ground should still be workable, and we won't need to water, so just come to pick weeds, hoe and cultivate. See you there! Call if you need a ride.

Yay! Rain!

Just in time--and wonderfully appreciated! Our corn is up, but so are some new weeds. We will meet on Wednesday, June 10, to cultivate, rake and pull weeds, unless it is too muddy. If any of our tomatoes need replanting, we will do that, too. Call if you need a ride.

Finishing touches, Wednesday, June 3

To make sure our new seedlings don't fade away, we will meet on Wednesday, June 3, at 6 p.m. to water, plant a few extra plants to replace weak seedlings, and finish tightening up the fence. We will need 4 or 5 people to water quickly. See you there, and make sure to call if you need a ride!

Waiting for rain. . .

On Saturday and Sunday we put in our garden and the fence. Here master gardener Jaimé and Abdisalan plant one of our "green" seed tapes--constructed of toilet tissue, washable school glue and seeds. We got tons of work done and had lots of help both days. We will probably get back on our regularly scheduled gardening time of 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, starting this week on June 3. We still have a few extra peppers to plant, put some finishing touches on the fence, and water the garden, if it doesn't rain before then.

Planting Day--postponed until Saturday, May 30

Due to the rain overnight and today, we will delay our garden work until Saturday, May 30, so that the freshly tilled soil can dry out enough to work. See you there! We will try to start at about 1:00 p.m. and work until the garden is planted.

Planting, May 27, 2009

Yes, it's that time again, guys! We will be meeting at spaces 137, 138 in the Zumbro community gardens on Wednesday afternoon to put in our garden. We have a variety of vegetables this year, including the delicious plum tomatoes shown above, San Marzano, that we started from seeds in the classroom. Other plants from our classroom are Homestead heritage tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and the MOST beautiful Asian cucumbers. We will add homemade seed tapes of corn, sugar snap peas, black-eyed peas, and bush beans. Add to that three kinds of potatoes--Yukon Gold, Russett and red; onions and some seed tapes of lettuce (purchased) and variety lettuce, to name a few. Come out and join us--more hands make less work! We should try to get started at about 5:30-6:00. If you need a ride, let us know. See you there.