Saturday Morning

For the moment, the community garden is weed-free. Eight families came together on this glorious morning to weed, water, plant, mulch, cut garlic scapes, tease out some strawberries, wash planting pots, thin peaches. Jenni treated us to fresh-from-the-garden tabouleh. Thanks for sharing your Saturday morning: Phil, Jenni, Gabe, Olive, Don, Dick, Christy, Mary, Marni, Key, Karla, and Hazel.

 

Spring Came Finally

Chrisy took these photos of early spring activity.

Garlic, strawberries, rhubarb, and asparagus are flourishing. Pear trees in full bloom. Peach bloom finished and cherry coming on. Goose and Service berries leafed out. Pawpaw the slowest.

Thanks to our own (B)Master(d) Gardener for double digging, weeding, mulching, pruning, cleaning, and with Marni, digging out the gutters for a free flow of bounty into our rain barrels.

Early planting by Mary and Marni of spinach, lettuces, peas, dry beans, collards, radishes,
beets, and carrots.

Warm season crops are hardening off under Marni's nurturing.

All hail spring!

Gabe and I made refrigerator pickles using cucumbers and garlic from the garden as well at a handful of Marni's burr oak tree leaves (thanks, Marni!). The tannin in the leaves is supposed to help keep the pickles fresh.

Gabe and I had some fun with the kale before making kale chips.

Thanks

Sandra, thank you for updating the blog. Richard

Miracles in a Garden

Hollyhock

Gooseberries

Amos Pettingill, White Flower Farm’s resident writer, recently sent out this greeting to our email subscribers: “These long, lazy days are the best time to relax and enjoy the miracle that is your garden. The patience, planning, and effort that went into its creation are amply rewarded by the beauty, serenity, and abundance of the show, not to mention the unexpected variations that nature always provides.” 

 

 

"It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."-Edna St Vincent Millay

 "Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short. But when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, Volume 8

Tomato

Butternut Squash

Napa Cabbage

 

 

 

Fresh Strawberry Pie!

I made this from the amazing strawberries in the garden! A few lucky neighbors got to sample a slice!