Summertime Planting! We've begun our gardening with enthusiasm and we're barely into May. Our gardeners have been holding off as long as they can, but now the race is on. Planting!! I've enticed our gardeners with the promise of a a bright yellow 2 peck (1/2 bushel) basket! The first 10 to have me out
Marcelle St. Germain Step by Step, Big Ugly Summer temperatures and conditions have been with us now for a week or so but the cold, wet, winter would not let go of us during the month of April. The planting of potatoes and cabbages took place when there were brief interludes from the rain. Some
Bea Sias, Step by Step Logan, WV The first three days of this week, it has rained and rained hard. Maybe, the next two or three days it will be pretty, the sun will shine and a lot of yard work and garden work will be done. There are only a few things you can
Hello out there from Ramella Park Community Garden of Eatin'. These past two weeks we have witnessed such a flourish of growth and green in the garden. Almost all of the beds have been planted in by now, with the exception of those few that waited until the last recorded frost date of May 15th,
--Deb Vensel and Brandon Richardson, High Rocks AmeriCorps Members, Hillsboro, WV This month we combined our cooking and canning workshops to see if that would be more convenient to our participants. The combination worked well but in changing the hours of our workshops to accommodate both sessions we may have made the workshops less accessible.
After a relentless and seemingly never ending winter we have skipped right over spring and are now slugging through the heat of Summer. Thank goodness for our high tunnel or our gardens would be in jeopardy. Our little valley has recently endured every type of weather in the last month from snow, strong winds, rain,
This month we are finally harvesting our first lettuces and kale. Our kohlrabi and radishes need one more rain before they are ready to come out of the ground. The original plan was to plant broccoli solely in the fall, however, we decided to take a chance this spring. Unfortunately, our broccoli plants might end
Travis Adkins here at Red Bird Mission, we had service week here on campus for some of our students at Red Bird Christian School on April 19th and 20th. We had a lot of fun planting strawberry plants in one of our raised beds. We also planted some tomato and pepper seeds in our green
This months meeting was held at the Scott Christian Care Center. As some of you know we have several raised beds at the center that we community garden. This meeting gave everyone a visual of what to do and what not to do in their raised beds. A lot of work has been done out
Greetings from Appalachian Sustainable Development! Grow Your Own programming is in full swing here in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. We're preparing to offer summer plants this week and next week including a plethora of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Summer seed will include white half runners, rattlesnake preacher beans, squash, and much more. The slow,
