First Community Garden Potluck of the Season: Next Tuesday!

Join us for our first potluck at the garden on Tuesday, August 6 after the work session! Feel free to join us even if you cannot make the work session from 5:00-7:00.

harvest on July 30

Invite your families and friends including anyone who might be interested in the community garden! Bring a dish to share, a chair, and your own plate/utensils.

Week of 7/30

Happy Tuesday! That means it's garden night! Join us this evening from 5:00-7:00PM!

There are still a lot of weeds! Weed in the rows, between the rows, under plants (especially the squash, it's getting to be quite the jungle over there; pull out any beans under the squash. These are volunteers from last year and and are contributing to the jungle), even pull weeds in the driveway and around the edge of the garden.

Check for squash bugs!

Also check for aphids on the kale

Harvest anything that MUST be harvested, i.e. green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, tomatillos (things that will get too big if we leave them)

From the things that will be fine as long as we let them grow (i.e. chard, kale), harvest for your own personal use


As a reminder, there has been a group meeting on Saturday mornings at the garden as an alternate work session. Feel free to join them or to work on your own time!

Tomatillos

Crookneck squash and cucumbers

Different varieties of basil

Tomatoes and Eggplant harvested last week

Tuesday session: new activities!

Happy Tuesday! It's garden session tonight! To do: weed (pull put grass in the back beds by hand and shake off as much of the good soil as possible so we don't throw it away!), hoe up mounds of dirt around the potatoes in the front bed (leave about 6 inches of plant above the soil), stake and sucker tomatoes, and harvest! For harvest pick all the beans; look for 6" plus eggplants, 6" yellow crook necks and plump cucumbers; pick any basil tops that are flowering; and harvest your own personal handfuls of greens. Please make sure all tools make it back into the shed at the end of the night and last person to leave locks it! And once again, please do NOT adjust any watering! And have fun!

Weed-a-thon tonight! :)

Don't forget our gardening session tonight from 5-7! We'll be doing similar things to last week, but first and foremost if everyone would pull weeds for a full hour that'd be great, especially in the back herb beds and front perennial area near the street. To do: weeding, suckering tomatoes, replant carrot bed w chard, make sure all drip tape is facing holes-up. See you soon!

Irrigation system

A note to all gardeners, we have set the irrigation system on a timer with the right pressure so please do not change/turn-on/off/adjust any of the system. If you think there is a problem send an email to gjmainstreetcommunitygarden@gmail.com ad someone will take a look at it! Thanks!

Work session tonight: tis the weeding season

Happy Tuesday! Today we'll be pulling weeds (need to get a handle on them now!), suckering tomatoes, staking tomatoes, replanting seeds that didn't germinate, clipping flowering basil, and harvesting some greens. 

This is a goat head plant, they've all GOT to go!! Use a spade to help get out the roots and put them in the trash!

Weeds are taking over... But since they are still small they are easy to pull out 😄

This is a tomato sucker, a leaf or stem that is growing between the main stem and a main branch. These we pinch out and remove, as shown below! 

Saturday Work Sessions!!

Beginning this Saturday, June 8, we will be holding Saturday morning work sessions at 9AM!

We know you can't all make it out on Tuesday evenings so we are designating Saturday mornings as a second option for a group work session. Saturday mornings will be less "structured" than Tuesday's sessions, but we will update this blog weekly (as well as our Facebook page) about what needs to be done at the garden.

This week:

mostly WEEDING!!

In the rows, between the rows, and even around the garden and in the driveway. At this point, I think all of the rows are planted. Watch for tiny greens, carrots, basil, beets, etc. just coming up.

If someone wants to take on the front section (the area between the road and the sidewalk) there are a lot of weeds in there as well.