Saturday 10.17.15

Today was a beautiful fall work day at the garden, highlighted by a visit from Rosemary Kaul, the garden founder!  Rosemary explored every section and helped everywhere.  She will be back on Wednesday, and looks forward to meeting more garden members.

As always, Kathy was the early bird and had harvested tomatoes by the time the rest of us drifted in.  Today’s harvest included not only tomatoes, but beans, okra, padrons, chiles, eggplants, squash, and some little spinach and radishes from the greenhouse (TLC from Geri).

Suzanne  prepped and planted shallots (WHICH ARE TO BE LEFT ALONE UNTIL SPRING), Steve, Molly and Geri prepped and planted leeks in the bed west of garlic while Desiree, Deb and Patricia prepped another garlic plot.

Water elves today were Ingrid, Deb and Desiree.  Steve and Ron continued the never ending job of making the garden tidy and moved stuff from around our shed to the back shed (Ron and Steve’s Place) and some to the dumpster!

Suzanne took home some green tomatoes to ripen for next canning workshop-date TBD.

For Wednesday:  plant garlic in newly prepped bed, continue to pick chile that is ready (leave some to turn red), harvest, harvest, harvest.  Maybe water, although a storm is expected…We will watch the forecast carefully now so we can pick green tomatoes before the first freeze.

Please note:

• Do not water chile!
•  Leave shallots alone until Spring!
• And look for mulch-grass clippings and leaves that have not been treated with chemicals.

Submitted by Molly