Salutations!

It's hard to believe that the tiny lettuce seeds we started in the winter have given us their energy, gone to seed once more, and then been turned into new energy in the compost. As tomatoes and broccoli are ripening, our second crop of lettuce and other greens is already coming up!

Yesterday, Tuesday the 28th, we pulled up the old arugula and lettuce and also thinned the beets. We harvested beautifully multi-colored chard and some kale, as well as the last of the peas and some beets. We watered our gargantuan tomato plants and their pepper, broccoli, eggplant, and petunia sisters and brothers. The perennial and annual flowering plants around our new arbour garden and bordering one side of the green house are going strong - all except chamomile which has past its prime.

We were rockin' in the Simple Garden plot, creating three new raised beds and filling two of them with basil, parsley, and chard. Bordering the beds we planted some petunias for a bit of instant color and flowering plants purchased recently from Mother Earth Gardens - a few well known favorites like salvia and a shasta daisy as well as native perennials including tickseed and monkey's paw flower.

See you next Tuesday from 6-8 - and don't forget that August 11th from 6-8 will be our garden potluck!

Peace,

Esther