Our baskets are filling

As July continues on our garden continues to grow in all directions! The sunflowers now tower over the garden, the tomato plants have developed into fragrant bushes holding delicious fruits and the kale and Swiss chard give bountiful harvests weekly. This week our community gardening night was full of plucking and picking as well as dead heading and putting in more twin and poles to hold our tomato plants up off the ground.



Out in the Simple Garden plot we discovered that a creature of the nearby woods has been nibbling on our veggies (and sunflowers too!)With the late planting things are coming up slow, and because of the nibbler we planning to modify it into a fall garden for the next season with things that stay tucked away under the soil and out of nibblers mouths like potatoes and onions.



















With all the nooks and crannies of out tomato bushes, harvesting is sometimes more of a scavenger hunt. but Bree still manages to fill her basket with lots of yummy cherry tomatoes










Mmm, yellow pear my favorite!

What a beautiful eggplant!

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Our garden has also been blessed with the creation of several videos about our garden's mission and community. Check them all out below!





More to come soon!

Best,
Kassy

Transitions and new life!

This season continues to bring transitions and new life! Our seeds that were planted a little over a month ago have taken root and bared their harvest for many meals already. The Arbor Garden and it's edible landscape sprouts ongoing beauty and food and the companion planting of things such as tomatoes and basil has proven to be beneficial for both involved.

Basil and tomato plants enjoying the company of each other

Various greens create a salad bed on the edge of the Arbor Garden

Renewed life has also been given to the Simple Garden, a larger plot belonging to St. Catherine University and a senior project of a student who has since graduated. For the past few years the garden has been over grown and left unused. At the end of last season we were able to clean it up and plant a ground cover of clover to enrich the soil. This season we are blessed with the early start in the space and also the few personal plots that have been taken up by community members.

Rows of basil, beets, swiss chard, cucumber, zucchini, potatoes, spinach, sunflowers and more now line the stretches of the garden along with transplanted rhubarb, asparagus, raspberry bushes and calendula from the old garden that has ended it's time with Celeste's Dream.

Much needed structure now exists within the Simple Garden plot, created both by the bountiful rows of vegetables and a beautiful corner plot of perennial flowers and ceder mulch. The medical herb garden that rests in the middle of the plot also received a much needed thinning.

As we talk of transitions I cannot forget to introduce myself as well. My name is Kassy and I am blessed with the opportunity to be the new intern with Celeste's Dream for 2010-2011, and thus the new recorder of all the gardening adventures! I am a student at St. Kate's majoring in both social work and women studies and have been a member of the community garden for about a year now, which is a constant vessel for growth. I look forward to sharing the gardening happenings with you all, and as always, everyone is welcome to join us on Tuesdays from 6-8pm outside of the Administration Building in the Arbor Garden!

Best,
Kassy