The community garden is growing beyond our expectations:
'Lettuce' eat salad!
These happy greens are:
Romaine (the 4 big ones)
& left to right
Pak Choy & Butter Lettuce (very left)
Brunia (the babies) West Coast Seeds
mixed lettuce (butter, leafy green...)
Merlot (also West Coast Seeds)
& in the back, spinach, carrots, 'n' Super Sweet Peas!
(with green onions as a companion plant)
All that digging & amending & tending
is paying off in crunchy harvests.
Hard to believe that it used to be this...
Then we spent some time amending soil
and planted some seeds
&
then it looked like this....
When things popped up a little,
it started to look like this...
now it's flourishing into
this!
I can't wait until we can pick fresh sweet peas!
(It's been years since I've tasted one, you?)
And guess what else we are awaiting?
Wee baby grapes:
(We've heard that they'll grow up to be tasty red eating grapes) :)
And we're celebrating another delightful thing
that we never dreamed was possible:
we got a second plot this year!
Normally, we'd have to wait until next year to
get another plot at our community garden
(if there was one available)
but
this one needed a little immediate loving:
It had an over-sized 7 foot greenhouse that was
shading the neighbours veggies out.
&
Guess what menace lived in that greenhouse?
(if there was one available)
but
this one needed a little immediate loving:
It had an over-sized 7 foot greenhouse that was
shading the neighbours veggies out.
&
Guess what menace lived in that greenhouse?
Man-Eating 14 foot weeds!!!
(That's a dose of hyperbole, of course...
but only a little. The weeds were taller than us!) ;)
I swear they were trying to get out of there:
If you look closely, you can see the little ropes
that the weeds have rigged up on the
roof of the green house:
They were planning on swinging out of there! I just know it. ;)
Methinks they were trying to take over the world:
But we fixed their wagon:
(Well, we're working on it...)
No more greenhouse thanks to our fab Neighbourhood Rep Jim.
And we've made a fair bit of progress.
C's sister, Denise, is helping us out. She's amazing!
We're going back this afternoon to continue
placing & filling the raised beds we built.
Can't wait to show you some more leafy green after pics, in the fall. :0)
Well off to go dig dirt!
Hope your day is a delight,
Hope your day is a delight,
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