Broccoli bonanza

Many victory garden plants survived the low temperatures last week and are still producing food.

At our regular picking time this morning at Aptiv, we harvest a bag full of beautiful broccoli. Some us a bit oeggy, but you can always use it chopped up in an ones let or fried rice or potato broccoli soup. We also have a nice batch of smallish tomatoes and a few green beans. Pick your own chard, kale, green tomatoes, and, in the back raised bed closest to the greenhouse, spinach (and maybe an eggplant).

The City Hall garden even has some little zucchini and cauliflowers along with peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes.

PICK ME NOW

 

There is a freeze warning for tonight. Temps may dip low enough to kill off warm weather vegetables like peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, beans.

PLEASE PICK STUFF TODAY!

You never know if a weather prediction will become a reality. Maybe it will only get to 34 tonight and nothing will freeze, but we don't have capacity to cover all the beds and hope for the best. A freeze may harm the vegetables as well as the plants.

Dig out your GREEN TOMATO recipes and help us wind down the garden. If we get a reprieve, there may be more to come.

Still producing

In the olden days, we would have been looking to our first frost about now, but with the warming Earth, our zones have changed and our gardening seasons are changing. 

Today at the Aptiv garden, we picked tomatoes, eggplants, squash, broccoli, and beans, with chard, kale, and spinach ready for you to pick. Check the garden stand under the tree or pick what you need. We will pick up what's not taken from the stand Saturday around noon (when it's going to be 80°+!)

The City Hall garden is also still producing. Tuesday we found tomatoes*, peppers, eggplants, summer squash, broccoli, a little chard and kale, and green beans. A few tromboncino squash (thank you, Council President Dickenson!) are working their way to maturity in a few weeks, too. Things are a bit dry there, but we hope to fix that soon.

Once we do get a killing frost, we'll clean out most of the plants. Until then, pick what your family needs.

*Green tomatoes are wonderful and versatile! Check out these green tomato recipes from Rural Sprout.

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.