Happy September Gardeners!

What a productive and beautiful summer we have enjoyed on Main Street. The newspaper and mulch really helped with the beds this year, keeping the garden looking neat and orderly. Generally the plants have done well and are in full production: tomatoes, green beans, peppers, beets, carrots, chard, kale, you name it!

We did harvest the potatoes a bit early last week as the plants had all shriveled up.  Garden members that were present last week each took some home, the rest will be available in the shed tonight, feel free to take a few home.

For the rest of the season we need to focus on getting weeds out. With fall approaching weeds start flowering and going to seed- and if they are not removed they will seed out into the garden and next year will be filled with lots of baby weeds. Whenever you are at the garden, please spend a chunk of time weeding, and put any flowering weeds or grasses into the trash (NOT compost). I know harvesting is more fun, but if everyone pulls weeds for a bit, then everyone can enjoy harvesting too!

As per usual, the garden will go through the first fall freeze, so plan on showing up every weeks until it's really, really cold- which hopefully will be mid-late October. We will then have a work day to clean up the garden, turn over the soil, pull the drip lines, and get ready for winter. Look out for announcements about this in a couple months.

To celebrate the beginning of September, we will be having a potluck next Tuesday, September 8th. Plan on working in the garden and then sharing a dish with your fellow gardeners!

Tonight we'll be weeding (yay!), and harvesting all of the flowering basil tops (regular and thai), ripe tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and tomatillos, picking all of the green/purple beans that are ready, and picking your own greens and herbs.

Enjoy this beautiful weather!