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Final 2024 Garden update: Nov 20

11/21/2024

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Greetings, the numbers have been crunched...
Zucchini - 1,033 lbs. We were still harvesting in October WOW!
Cucumbers - 336 lbs. Arrived early but did not fare well - disease and bugs got to them.  
Green Peppers - 1,572 lbs. Really nice year for peppers; just kept on producing all the way to frost
Tomatoes - 5,701 lbs. Better than last year, still our most popular veggie
Eggplant - 313 lbs. Nice harvest from 50 plants
Yellow String Beans - 59 lbs. Planted less than other years but they just did not grow as good as I would have liked 
Green String Beans - 567 lbs. Summer plants gave out early, fall plants did well, also a half row did not germinate. 
Potatoes - 1,062 lbs. A new record! Planted 3 different types of potatoes, 2 yellow and 1 red all did well.
Butternut Squash - 25 lbs. Planted just 2 raised beds 
Sweet Potatoes - 202 Lbs. Very nice but the gophers had a feast with several of the bigger potatoes.
Honey Nut Squash - 32 lbs. Seeds did not germinate as well as other years 
Broccoli - 168 lbs. Fall harvest was better than spring harvest
Cabbage 1,756 lbs. Not a record but a nice harvest; the dry weather kept the heads smaller
Red beets - 208 lbs. Not bad but several beds did not produce as well as expected. Planted both red and golden beets
Carrots - 57 lbs. Only planted a spring crop.
Onions - 750 lbs. Our onions were smaller than other years.  
Hot Peppers (Jalapeño) 72 lbs. Very hot this year; used in our salsa
Lima beans - 128 lbs. Planted further apart this year; the plants bushed out and did well.
Cauliflower - 212 lbs. Lost quite a few; they bolted early
Lettuce 240 lbs. Around 60 heads. Lost several to wilting. The heads we harvested were beautiful. 
That is the harvest for 2024. We did harvest some dry corn and a few ground cherries. The total comes to 14,493 lbs. Better than last year and a goal to shoot for in 2025. Thank you to all who supported the garden mission this season. See you in 2025! ​
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Garden Update, Nov. 7

11/7/2024

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Greetings fellow gardeners, the last of the last was finished off last Saturday. The last 200 lbs of cabbage (our biggest head of cabbage was 13 lbs) was harvested, the plants were all pulled, the remaining tomato cages were cleaned and all 800 were stacked and stored for the winter. This Saturday we pull up the plastic mulch and drip tape. After that, the garden is officially closed for the season.
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The only big job left is processing all the leaves and garden plants into a big pile of chopped up pre-compost ready for composting next summer. If the weather holds out, I should be done by December.

I have all the tally sheets from the season; I will be adding up all the totals and sending out an email before Thanksgiving. 

Do you have any pumpkins that you used for decoration? Don't throw them in the trash; bring them to the garden and I will add them to the compost mix. I have a wooden pallet at the end of the church parking lot where you can drop off your pumpkins.

Last Saturday we stopped working early because we had a special lunch to attend. We enjoyed an 80th birthday party for Nancy Alderfer at the Souderton Home. Nancy has been a volunteer at the garden since day 1, over 18 years. WOOHOO Happy Birthday Nancy! Someday we will sit down and figure out how many pounds of weeds Nancy has pulled in 18 years. Too many to count!

Thank you to all the volunteers who took time out of their busy schedules this season to make the 2024 garden a great success.

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Salford Mennonite Church is a member of Mosaic Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Church USA, and Mennonite World Conference.