We're looking for an experienced gardener to supervise the City Hall garden in 2025. Help & support available! Also if you want to help start seedlings in March, please contact us.
MinisterOfBeans at gmail or 608-315-2693.
We're looking for an experienced gardener to supervise the City Hall garden in 2025. Help & support available! Also if you want to help start seedlings in March, please contact us.
MinisterOfBeans at gmail or 608-315-2693.
From noon to 2 p.m. on Monday, November 11, we'll pull dead plants and put garlic in at the City Hall Community Victory Garden. Come on down if you want to help!
And there's still good stuff to pick at Aptiv. Try this yummy recipe for excess chard (may use vegan sausage). https://true-north-kitchen.com/herbed-white-bean-and-sausage-soup-with-swiss-chard/
But the stars are the broccoli plants, lots of little and not-so-little side shoots are available. There's also tomatoes, peas, chard, kale, parsley, and a little bit of spinach.
Needless to say, garden clean up and garlic planting have been pushed back a bit. Stay tuned!
There are still veggies coming out of our victory gardens! While the tomatoes*, peppers, and squash are done for the year, chard, kale, and even broccoli are still growing at Aptiv and City Hall. Even the late-planted peas are developing little pods .
If you want any GREEN tomatoes, please email, text or call and we can meet at Aptiv. From pies and cakes to relishes and salsas, green tomatoes are the very versatile end-of-season ingredient.
Here are a few recipes links.
Green Tomato Spice Cake - https://www.thespruceeats.com/green-tomato-cake-recipe-3057074
Green Tomato Soup - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012773-green-tomato-soup-with-bacon-and-brioche-croutons
Green Tomato Casserole - https://www.hamtownespicery.com/post/2017/06/22/southern-green-tomato-casserole
Green Tomato Pie - https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/green-tomato-pie/
Green Tomato Bread - https://www.thespruceeats.com/green-tomato-quick-bread-recipe-1136180
The gardens are all producing good, clean, fresh produce that needs to be picked! At the same time, some "first crops" are now done and we are replanting with other veggies that will be ready in fall.
At all gardens you should find greens, especially chards and kale, beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Summer squash can be found at Aptiv and City Hall (pick the round "8-Ball" zucchinis when they're about as big as a large soft ball). Peppers and eggplants are coming in now, too. At Aptiv and City Hall, we have herbs as well.
There are still potatoes at Hogan and Aptiv. Most have been dug at City Hall, though we did find a few escapees when we were replanting the potato bed recently. If a spot looks blank, it's probably got, or will get soon, seeds for turnips, beets, lettuce, spinach, and other vegetables that should be ready in late September. It's always a gamble, but worth a try!
If you pick your own, take what you need for a meal, but, if you can, leave some for the next person.
If you need help knowing what to pick when, come to a group garden time or contact us and we can meet you at a garden to answer questions. As always, we welcome more volunteers at our group garden times.