Greetings fellow gardeners, last Saturday we took another step towards a full garden. Tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, eggplant, string beans and lima beans all made it in the ground. The eggplant, zucchini and cucumbers were then covered with insect netting to keep the pests away from the young plants. The netting will stay on until the plants get too big and start to push up on the cover. This week we plant our green peppers and squash seeds. I still have some room for more tomatoes, so I bought 2 more flats. I was going to hold off on planting a large number of tomatoes, but I couldn't help myself. Who doesn't like a fresh grown garden tomato? If we have time, we will start to hill our potatoes and fertilize some of our spring veggies which are about halfway to harvest. I also planted one of our raised beds with red dry corn. The stalks get over 8 feet tall and the cobbs are a deep red color. The corn is then left to dry and can be ground into corn meal. Very tasty. I will also be planting some corn seed sent to us from the Lenape Nation in Oklahoma. This is also dried and used for flour or corn meal. We will also plant some squash seed sent from Oklahoma too.
Thank you to everyone who worked on their hands and knees to make sure all the plants made it in the ground. Not an easy job but our volunteers are the best. Steve, [email protected] 215-872-6616
Thank you to everyone who worked on their hands and knees to make sure all the plants made it in the ground. Not an easy job but our volunteers are the best. Steve, [email protected] 215-872-6616
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