Thank you, students!

Thank you, students from UWL Prof. Alysa Remsburg's class - Food, Culture, and the Environment - who took the bus to the City Hall garden on Tuesday morning to help week and clean up the garden! Dr. Remsburg is a garden volunteer who has shared the garden with several classes over the years.

The students were fantastic, pulling weeds from paths and beds and digging, pulling, and picking veggies, too. They even found a few garlic bulbs missed during the harvest earlier this summer.

We are still getting eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, beans  broccoli, summer squash, kale, and cucumbers, so cleaning out beds should help the plants that are still producing continue. 

The Aptiv garden is also producing, including late crops of spinach and kale. At Aptiv l, we will have several winter squash to pick, too.

BEANS!!

Both Aptiv and City Hall gardens are loaded with beans right now!

At Aptiv, there's a food stand where already-picked produce is available Fridays through Saturday morning. Come and get it - today, besides beans, there's rhubarb, chard, kale, a couple of summer squash, a few little ears of corn, broccoli, a butternut squash, and a few tomatoes. We have lots of tomatoes but they just haven't started to ripen yet.

At City Hall, you'll find chard and kale, peppers, tomatoes, summer squash, cukes, beans, broccoli, and turnips (mixed in with the summer squash). There's also a black garden pot covering some potatoes we dug on Tuesday. While you're there, pull a few weeds from the paths!

Recipe: Simple Green Beans & Potatoes - https://simply-delicious-food.com/green-beans-and-potatoes/

Potatoes +

There are potatoes under the black bucket at the City Hall garden. Also at that garden you will find turnips, green beans, cabbage, broccoli, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, chard, kale and summer squash. Check for beans in both the long bed between the broccoli and pepper beds and on the hoop closest to the compost bin.

We are getting an overflow of weeds and hope to get that cleaned up soon. Please feel free to pull weeds from the paths when you are there!

This week at Aptiv will be corn week probably. Plus all the other great stuff. 

See you there!

Broccoli +

This morning, the Aptiv stand has broccoli, green beans, chard, kale, and a couple of summer squash. We will grab up what's still in the stand Saturday at about 1 p.m. so if you want anything, get it today.

If you want some garlic email MinisterOfBeans@gmail.com or call 6083152693.

City Hall tomatoes finally got tied up. Beans are beaning and we have cukes, kale, chard, peppers, and maybe an eggplant. The potato project was postponed to next week. Look for dug potatoes Tuesday evening.

Come and pick it

Every Friday, find picked produce in the stand at Aptiv. Thfough Saturday morning m, there's rhubarb, chard, kale, cukes, and broccoli  You can pick things, too.

There's an explosion of beans at both gardens now and potatoes can be dug. At Aptiv, there are a few kohlrabi and carrots plus emerging summer squash and cukes. At City Hall, the turnips need to go to make room for summer squash.

Both gardens could use a few more volunteers. You don't need to come to the group tines, 5 p.m  Tuesdays at City Hall and 8 a.m. Fridays at Aptiv. Mostly we're trying to keep up with weeding the paths and bed edges. This can be done any time.

Suddenly Summer!

Rain and heat have helped some crops spring ahead and challenged others. The Aptiv garden has more, but both have food to pick, including turnips, kohlrabi, beets, beans, cabbage, broccoli, chard, kale, peas, dill (LOTS of dill at City Hall - please pull a plant or two and take it home), and potatoes. 

The potato plants have not died back yet, so if you want a couple of potatoes, please just fish around the soil surface near the crown of the plant. We all probably start to dig potatoes next week and more will be available then.

At Aptiv, on Friday mornings, we harvest stuff that's ready and put it in a produce stand under the shade tree. Today I think we have beens and chard. Take what you want.

We could really use some help weeding bed edges and paths at City Hall. You can go whenever you want to weed. Put weeds in the compost bin at the center of the garden. If you want help the first time, contact us and we'll meet you.

The City Hall garden is accessible via the #4 and #6 MTU bus. You can get to the Aptiv garden on the #1 bus.

Friday late start

Because of predicted cool temps at 8 a.m., we'll meet at 10 on Friday, May 22 for Aptiv garden work.