Spring has sprung...???

 It sure feels like spring has sprung...but we might be fooled!  We didn't really get the normal two-week winter thaw mid-January that we usually get...so we may be getting that NOW...a month late.  Time will tell!

Today we got most of the south beds staked and twined!  We also got a bed of beets planted and some of the flower bed seeded!!

We are working on valve replacement and pipe repairs.  I guess it just comes with the territory...things wear out and get old...it feels like my life story!!  Ha!

The garden is loving the sunshine, and we are loving the helpers who show up and make the garden such a great place to be.  

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New Beginnings in 2024!

It feels so great to be back in Utah and getting our hands back in the soil at the Santa Clara Community Garden.  For those who didn't know, my husband (Rod) and I served an 18 month mission in the Texas Dallas East Mission.  We lived in Tyler, Texas the entire time but served as far away as Shreveport, Louisiana, some in Arkansas, and over to Dallas.  We loved serving there and made many wonderful friends that were very hard to leave!!  We also started a Tyler Community Garden and hope that it will continue to thrive!

With that said, I need to also thank Ashley Adams and Judy Holly for all of their efforts to help the SCCG do so well while we were gone!!

Saturday, February 10th, we had our first "garden work party" since we returned.  The large amounts of rain we've had has been great, but it has kept us out of the garden!  It felt so good to be there Saturday with the sun shining and renewing friendships!

We got all of the south beds rototilled thanks to a great community service worker!  And we got all of the north beds cleaned up. The first bed on the south side is going to be used as a FLOWER BED!!  So it will be fun to see what that looks like!!  The next two beds got planted with sugar snap peas and a little bit of regular peas.  Although it's still going to be cold at night, there is a lot of sunshine headed our way!

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Heat AND Squash Bugs???

Sheesh!  There ought to be a law against TONS of HEAT while dealing with TONS of SQUASH BUGS!!! Ugh!!  Or, they should automatically drop dead when it gets hotter than 100 degrees!  We would be squash bug-free!!!  Oh well.  We'll keep working at it!!

We had a great get together Tuesday evening and got corn, squash, onions, and broccoli planted- thank you to those who came and helped! Our next garden party will be on August 11th at 7pm. We will be planting the lettuce, carrots, peas, and onions. We are in need of donations for seeds.  If you have an extra few dollars, please Venmo me at #patrice-hunt-1  

Ashley will take the money to buy seeds at Kirklands in the next week or two.  THANK YOU!!!

In the meantime, the pumpkins are ready to pick! Please come pick a pumpkin for your family.  They will stay good until Halloween, or you can cook them and make pumpkin pie now!  *_*

There are also onions ready to pick to use. The green peppers are coming along nicely.

Heating Up and then some...

 Here are a few pictures from the past couple of weeks!  The squash bugs seem to be winning the war!!  YIKES!!  The tomato plants have had a lot of trouble with viruses!  And of course, rain has not been around much!!  We sure could use some!!  Thanks for the pics Ashley!!