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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.
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.
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.
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.
Because of predicted cool temps at 8 a.m., we'll meet at 10 on Friday, May 22 for Aptiv garden work.
We have a good start now on both gardens thanks to many new and veteran volunteers. (Join us!)
CITY HALL: We've started spreading compost on some of the beds and have some things in the ground, including seeds planted last week that are starting to come up and plants we put in at Tuesday's garden time. We still have more to do, but, with the plants--from seeds started by UWL students in March and donated by Todd and Cathy--now populating some of the beds, it's starting to look like a garden. The garlic is up and looking great. We'll harvest it in July! We could use some donated herbs and flowers abd/or someone to manage that bed.
APTIV: Friday we'll put in the cabbages, cauliflower, and broccoli plants plus more onions and some kohlrabi. Spinach planted in fall and earlier this spring is ready to be picked at Aptiv!
We always welcome new garden friends!
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 from 8 to 9 a.m. at Aptiv
TUESDAY, APRIL 28 from 5 to 6 p.m.at City Hall
Last month Sue D and Cathy VM met with Karen Skemp's UWL class on Food and Security. We talked about the Victory Gardens and students helped us plant some seeds fir broccoli , cauliflower , cabbage and other veggies we'll plant out in a couple if weeks.
On April 21, those almost-30 UWL students helped kickstart our gardens, weeding beds and planting seeds and potatoes. WOW! A lot of work can get done when you have a motivated, energetic crowd!
What a great kick-off to our seventh season.
We'll continue with compost spreading and seed and seedling planting on Fridays from 8 to 9 at Aptiv and Tuesdays from 5 to 6 at City Hall.
Please join us. AND, thank yo u students!
Picture by Karen Skemp.
We plan to start group work in the gardens during the last couple of weeks of April. Stay tuned to this website for updates!
