From: Rose Sherry
Hello all,
I wanted to update everyone on the latest from the garden:
HARVEST:
Today's harvest was wonderful. Plenty of tomatillos and cucumbers and small tomatoes. A few large squash and some of the remaining pole beans and kale.
We also harvested some hot peppers and kale. The eggplants will be ready soon as well as many hot peppers that we are waiting to turn color before harvesting.
BUNNY UPDATE:
We believe that the bunny that was in the garden to day showed us how they little critters are gaining access. There is a breach in the fence that is attached to the gate. The "hole" is near the hinge corner. It appears that something or somehow the green coating was "chewed" off and the wires have become disconnected. The little bugger hopped through the hole in the little white plastic edging fence and magically through the green wire fencing. Upon further investigation we found that they fence wires were disconnected. You will see the temporary stop-gap solution we put up. We added extra white plastic fencing so that it can't fit as easily through it. Then we added some poles between the white plastic fencing and the gate so that if they try to get through the wires they cannot as easily climb over the white plastic fencing. I'm hoping this helps, we'll see.
I have thought of a more permanent solution but am trying to discern what materials to use. If we can block the bottom of the gate with a solid barrier I believe that that would help, but the barrier cannot impede the opening of the gate door. That's were I'm at with it for now, I welcome any suggestions.
FALL CLEANUP:
Yes this has been a beautiful summer and fall will soon be upon us. For those who are new to the garden I wanted to let you know how we get the garden ready for the "Post-fall" season (I don't think any of us are ready for the real word). For those who are veterans we are going to try something a little different.
As fall approaches the various crops stop producing and the plants either die or can be removed. What we've done in the past is start removing those plants that can be removed as they are ready for it and then have a single cleanup day for all who can make it to help finish off the beds, put away supplies and get the beds ready for...that "post-fall" season.
What we will do this year is have each group who is assigned to a bed start cleaning up their assigned bed as it is needed. I or Erich will let you know when the bed or crop is ready to be removed. For instance the first pole beans and bush beans are ready to be removed because they have stopped producing. One of us will email you directions as to when and what and how to remove and dispose of the plants. Next month we will have a better idea of when to schedule the "CLEAN- UP " Day.
It's usually on a Saturday morning in October but has been done in November as well. It depends on how the garden is going and the weather.
Also, at the end of each season we like to go over what we thought worked, what didn't and could use improvement get a list of any needs or ideas people have for next year so that we can document these. Please make a list of things you can think of in this regard.
Thanks,
Rose
Hello all,
I wanted to update everyone on the latest from the garden:
HARVEST:
Today's harvest was wonderful. Plenty of tomatillos and cucumbers and small tomatoes. A few large squash and some of the remaining pole beans and kale.
We also harvested some hot peppers and kale. The eggplants will be ready soon as well as many hot peppers that we are waiting to turn color before harvesting.
BUNNY UPDATE:
We believe that the bunny that was in the garden to day showed us how they little critters are gaining access. There is a breach in the fence that is attached to the gate. The "hole" is near the hinge corner. It appears that something or somehow the green coating was "chewed" off and the wires have become disconnected. The little bugger hopped through the hole in the little white plastic edging fence and magically through the green wire fencing. Upon further investigation we found that they fence wires were disconnected. You will see the temporary stop-gap solution we put up. We added extra white plastic fencing so that it can't fit as easily through it. Then we added some poles between the white plastic fencing and the gate so that if they try to get through the wires they cannot as easily climb over the white plastic fencing. I'm hoping this helps, we'll see.
I have thought of a more permanent solution but am trying to discern what materials to use. If we can block the bottom of the gate with a solid barrier I believe that that would help, but the barrier cannot impede the opening of the gate door. That's were I'm at with it for now, I welcome any suggestions.
FALL CLEANUP:
Yes this has been a beautiful summer and fall will soon be upon us. For those who are new to the garden I wanted to let you know how we get the garden ready for the "Post-fall" season (I don't think any of us are ready for the real word). For those who are veterans we are going to try something a little different.
As fall approaches the various crops stop producing and the plants either die or can be removed. What we've done in the past is start removing those plants that can be removed as they are ready for it and then have a single cleanup day for all who can make it to help finish off the beds, put away supplies and get the beds ready for...that "post-fall" season.
What we will do this year is have each group who is assigned to a bed start cleaning up their assigned bed as it is needed. I or Erich will let you know when the bed or crop is ready to be removed. For instance the first pole beans and bush beans are ready to be removed because they have stopped producing. One of us will email you directions as to when and what and how to remove and dispose of the plants. Next month we will have a better idea of when to schedule the "CLEAN- UP " Day.
It's usually on a Saturday morning in October but has been done in November as well. It depends on how the garden is going and the weather.
Also, at the end of each season we like to go over what we thought worked, what didn't and could use improvement get a list of any needs or ideas people have for next year so that we can document these. Please make a list of things you can think of in this regard.
Thanks,
Rose
