Strawberry Harvest

Meg, the garden volunteer who adopted our fledgling strawberry patch, just made the season's first delivery to Lewis House: Strawberries! We should be able to begin weekly deliveries by the end of June. Granted the harvest was only two handfuls so Meg stopped by the grocery store for a little strawberry reinforcement on her way to Lewis House.

Construction, Mulching, and Weeding

Give a group of volunteers a perfect day and four hours in the garden and you'll end up with a long list of to do's done.

We planned on just building a critter fence to enclose both the original garden and last September's addition along with putting the tomato trellis back up.

We ended up finishing both construction projects and spreading 16 bags of donated mulch on the perennial side and digging in some compost around the tomatoes and transplanting some volunteer onion and bok choy plants and thinning a row of beans and weeding.

The Last of the Planting

Even the "hot" weather plants are in and lucky for us the garden is watered by an automatic sprinkler system. We've gone weeks without significant rain.

Tomato

Eggplant

Pepper

Perennials Off to a Great Start

The perennials we planted last fall are off to a great start this spring.

Egyptian Walking Onions

Strawberries

Rhubarb

Kids in the Garden

A class from our onsite daycare has adopted the radishes and a row of beans. Following is an e-mail from one of our garden volunteers and mom:

This morning the kids planted the green beans and radishes. They did a great job and had a lot of fun. They also had fun rolling down the big hill! The beans worked really well because the seeds were bigger and they did the "poke and pat" method -- although that's probably not official gardening terms...it worked well for the children!

Halfway Through the Planting

Thanks to all of the Adopt-a-Crop volunteers we're well on our way to having the garden planted.  Just waiting for that last chance of frost and for the soil to warm up more before putting in the tomatoes, eggplant, melons, and few more other veggies.

Kennebec, Russet and Red

Yup, the potatoes are planted and this year, thanks to the Blue Spud Team, we have three different varieties Kennebec, russet, and red.  Perfect for baking, frying, and boiling.