Good-Bye Peas. . .

How can we have so many beautiful days in Dixie?!?! What a perfect time to be out in the garden. Once again we fortified our ranks against the weeds. The good guys are still winning!! However, the Peas have fulfilled the measure of their creation and are about ready to give up the ghost. Sooooo, we pulled all the plants in Bed 1 and stripped all the peas off. I have a BUNCH at my house that I'm distributing. If you want some, PLEASE call me!

Here are the pics from our morning's work. THANKS FOR THE HELP!!

May 1, 2010

April 21, 2010

Thanks to everyone's help, our garden is thriving!!

Everything's Planted...Almost!

Saturday - April 10, 2010

SURE GOT A LOT DONE!! Planted okra and kohlrabi, weeded, aerated, bermed, trimmed, watered, and more!!

Here are some of the pictures!!

April 8, 2010

Our garden is alive and well!!

Sunshine in Dixie

March 27, 2010


With the help of MANY volunteers we got a lot done on Saturday! We even had a family drive down from CEDAR CITY to spend some time in the warm sun, digging in the dirt! Thanks for coming, Fawson family!

Here's what we got planted:

4 beds of tomato plants (Solar Master, Star Fire, Phoenix, Amelia and Roma!)
From Community Garden 3-27-2010









1 bed of bell peppers, anaheims, and jalapeno
From Community Garden 3-27-2010

2 beds of cucumbers (Amenian and Muncher)

1 bed of striped watermelon

1 bed of yellow squash

1 bed of Banana squash

Harvested 1 bed of broccoli and cauliflower
From Community Garden 3-27-2010

Repaired all the hoses and connections. Great work, guys!!
From Community Garden 3-27-2010
Everyone did an amazing job. The girls from the LDS 7th Ward did a wonderful job of planting, weeding, and helping out! (Truly! They were just "resting" here...)

From Community Garden 3-27-2010

Nice way to get a good tan, too!!

March 13, 2010

Another great morning in the garden! Lots of fun people showed up to help in the garden. . .





. . . AND with the brush clean up in the gully.




Some of the kids discovered that broccoli tastes great fresh out of the garden!!. . .

From Garden 3-13-2010

Our benches got a beautiful "facelift" from Rick Peirce!

From Garden 3-13-2010

GET READY FOR MARCH 27th. . . 9:00!!

We will be putting in all of our PLANTS!! TOMATOES, PEPPERS, ZUCCHINI, etc!!

COME JOIN THE FUN!!

March 6, 2010

WHAT A GREAT GROUP!!


In spite of a little mis-communication, we managed to accommodate nearly 40 volunteers! The garden has never looked SO good! And the gully got a nice facelift, too! Thanks, everyone, for all of your help!

By the way, our broccoli is doing very well and tastes better than anything you can buy in the store. We picked the first head of cauliflower, and it was big and beautiful.
The lucky family I gave it to will have to give us a report!


Our lettuce, carrots, and beets are all coming up and look great!
The Swiss Chard accidentally got "re-dug" (forgot we had already planted that bed! Oops!!)
Still waiting (it's been a whole 2 weeks!)for the potatoes to pop up...
and we start REALLY planting in a couple more weeks.


Now, if we could just get our signs to not fold in half when the wind blows really hard!!

In Spite of the Rain

February 27, 2010

A few dedicated souls showed up to show the weeds who's boss!! Nice work!!

February 20, 2010

What a difference one week makes! Last week the sun was shining and sunblock was advisable. Today, we endured wind, rain, (not so much sleet or hail!) and no sunshine as we worked. But we all still had fun, got lots done, AND learned some new stuff!

We planted red potatoes, and a few russets. We got weeds dug up before they could think about becoming a REAL weed. Beds got numbered...and then we drove down to the gully!





We worked hard stacking all kinds of junk lumber that someone dumped in the gully. We found nails, unintentionally! We found rats, unintentionally!! (If you look closely in two of the pictures you'll see them!) And when we were all done the kids even got short rides on some of the horses! Another great day together!

SEED POTATOES!

Seed potatoes are finally in at Kirklands!!  We got 10lbs. today and will be planting on Saturday!  We're going to learn all kinds of good things with this potato patch!! 
  We'll be doing potato planting, a little more weed maintenance and then we're going down to the gully to do some "firewood" stacking by the river bed so the fire department can burn it and clean out the marsh that used to be a creek.  Should be loads of fun.  Just hope the rain holds off until noon.  We'll see!!

If you want to come help with anything, be at the garden at 9:00 a.m. this Saturday (Feb. 20th)!!  Work gloves, work clothes, and a water bottle would be good things to bring!

Early Spring Planting

Everyone knows our peas are coming up beautifully! Should I say it again?!?!  They are BEAUTIFUL!  Now, with all the help we had on Saturday, here's what we got planted:

Transplanted all the onion sets that had grown from the seed we planted last fall.  We had enough to plant 8 fifty foot rows...or 400 ft of onions!  NICE!!

Planted 200 ft. of Detroit Red beets; 200 feet Romaine lettuce and Buttercrunch lettuce; 200 ft. of Rhubarb Swiss Chard; and 200 ft of Danvers carrots.

We're anxious for the seed potatoes to come in so they can get going before it heats up too much.

The end of March/first of April we'll plant 4 beds of tomatoes, 1 bed of bell peppers and chili peppers, okra, zucchini, yellow squash and cucumbers!

So, things to do...but a little here and a little there is all it really takes!

THANKS FOR THE HELP!!

February 13, 2010

WHAT A GREAT DAY!!! Couldn't have asked for better weather, and sure had fun meeting new people. The garden is looking great, thanks to everyone's help!! We now have onions planted in two beds, beets, lettuce, and carrots, all ready to start growing in the beautiful soil!





Check back next week for more pictures and information.

Too Early To Plant . . . NO WAY!

"Houston, we have 'lift off!'"  or in other words . . . the peas are popping their little green heads up EVERYWHERE in the two beds that were planted.  What a beautiful sight!!

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We are planting and working in the garden this Saturday (Feb. 13th) at 9:00 a.m.  Come join the fun!

PEAS, GLORIOUS PEAS!

Today we got all of the peas planted! We have 1/3 of one bed in Wando Peas. The other 2/3 of that bed is Snow Peas. Then we have one full bed in Sweet Marvel Peas. We got them in, just in time to let nature do the watering! Let's cross our fingers and hope they don't float away!! Thanks for the help planting, ladies!

What a GREAT day!

Thanks for the help, everyone!! All the beds have compost on them, four of the beds are tilled, ready to plant peas on Monday... Given the rain that's supposed to be coming next week, this is perfect timing for planting!!

By the way, bed adoptions are coming up, so if you want to take care of a bed, please let me or Devon know!

Thanks!!

Patrice

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF GARDENING!!

Here it is January 2010 and it's time to start working in the garden again! Wahoo!!
















Thanks to Steve Condie for hauling our "black gold!!"


And thanks to our 11 year old scouts, and their leaders, for starting the work of putting compost on all of the beds!!

Within the next two weeks we will be tilling all the compost into the beds, and then planting peas, beets, and lettuce, just for starters!

Now is a great time to get your home gardens de-junked and tuned up for the growing season!

HOW THE GARDEN WORKS

This is a community work in progress. Using technology to manage our time well, we will be contacting people via email to delegate responsibilities. e.g., "The Jones Family" wants to help in the garden but has limited time and no financial resources. No problem! The Jones Family would send an email to garden@infowest.com telling of their interest to help and what they might be interested in doing. (Please include a phone number in case we need to call...unless you know that I know your number.)

If you have "adopted" a bed, your responsibilities for that bed include: weeding, planting, rock removal, pest control (as needed or suggested by garden supervisor), and harvesting. One hour a week, caring for your bed, should be sufficient.


Even if someone doesn't have a bed of their "own", everyone is welcome to come help. There is ALWAYS something to do. Bring a rake, or hoe, or shovel, or bucket, and come join the fun!


What we harvest will be divided among those who help. If there is surplus, we will share that with those in need in our area.

If you have already contacted me regarding wanting to help, no need to do so again. If you haven't, be sure to drop me a note. Patrice