Tentative Garden Blessing Date

Hello! Fr. Walter has on his calendar to bless the garden on Tuesday, June 22nd at 6pm. It was confirmed by his secretary but he's been out of town and may decide to change it. Stay tuned for confirmed plans and hopefully everyone can make it!

Garden Update

Posting for MB:

"Brennan, Aidan, and I spent some time in the garden last night.

The Good News:
The tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, basil seedlings, cilantro seedlings, green onions, squash, zucchini, beans, peppers, zinnias, the three carrots and six lettuce seedlings that came up are all doing great!

The Bad News:
The other 97 carrot and 94 lettuce seedlings.

On the Fence:
Eggplants, strawberries (although I saw one new bloom!), broccoli (is it too late for these guys to produce adequately?)

We have more carrot and lettuce seeds that we can plant. Need to hoe out the non-producing area and reseed.

What would be cool to do but would like some men-help: Clear out the area behind St. Francis all the way to the fence. Plant goliath sunflowers & smaller flowers there in an L around the corner area. To the right of that, plant pumpkins to be ready in the fall. I have all the seeds for this, just need it cleared.

Go Happy Gardeners, Go!"

Garden Evenings

I was lucky enough to go out to the garden alone tonight to check on things and have a few moments of peace after a long week alone with kids (thanks Mom!). I've decided 5:30 pm is my new favorite time in the garden. The sun has gone down just a bit and the world looks and feels just perfect. We've had some nice rain this week so I'm not sure about anyone else, but I haven't had to water.

Things are starting to perk up, especially the tomatoes and squash. And, we have a bitty-baby broccoli emerging from the leaves! Whoohoo!

The strawberry transplants are looking a little weak, perhaps the transfer was too much for them or perhaps we're getting past the season for them, I hope they'll make it a little longer. The beans and radish seeds are growing nicely and many of the basil and lettuce seeds are poking though. It's kind of hard to tell how the carrot seeds are doing as we are in need of some serious weeding. Hopefully we can tell as they get a little bigger. I was able to weed a bit around the basil and radishes but a cute kitty friend kept laying down right where I was trying to weed...so I gave in and played with him instead.

Maybe we can get a group of us to have a weeding party soon. I like the idea of straw too as that will kill off many of these weeds but we need the seedlings to get a bit bigger still.

We're in the process of arranging with Fr. Walter to come to the blessing, so we'll keep you posted. Looking forward to more evenings in the garden soon.

a morning in the garden

My family went to the garden. All of the plants were growing even ours! This is a pitcher of broccoli that I took with my mom's camera. There is also anther garden next to ours it is my friend's garden named  Diana.  Next  we  picked mint leaves . Before that  my  mom  said  Mary B. we have to   get  strawberry seeds for are garden,  okay i said  lets go!!!!!!!!

Straw is Great!

Ruth, thanks for the offer. We would love to use the straw for the strawberry plants. With their fruit directly on the ground, they are much more likely to rot.

We are thinking of putting some melons in behind St. Francis. They'll need lots of space to spread.

I believe Cortney's out of town for a couple of days. That's her sage...

New Strawberries!

Yesterday we planted 8 new strawberry plants in the "BAB" plot. 2 of them have fruit on them already and the other 6 are 2nd year plants from our garden last year that failed because of too much shade. But these plants came back and they were producing fruit in our yard as well so hopefully we'll get a decent crop of berries in June! We've noticed many of the other gardens have netting or chicken wire around their berries to protect them from birds and other critters. We're going to watch and see if we'll need to do this as well.

There has been lots of slow steady rain this afternoon so thanks to Mother Nature, we didn't need to go water today. Green bean seeds are quickly coming up as are the squash plants we planted in mounds. Carrots and radishes are poking though too. I'm very anxious for the tomatoes to grow bigger, they look kinda sad right now as do the pepper plants. It's still pretty cool though but the broccoli seems to like it!
-BB

Welcome!

Hello! This is a blog for the 6 families to communicate their experiences with our shared garden spot at the Sewanee Community Garden. Many of us are fairly new to gardening and with so many people in one place, I thought it might be nice to have a common location for updates, news, successes, etc. I also thought it would be fun to post recipes once we start getting (hopeful here!) some of the fruits of our labors. The first task is to name our blog, I temporarily named it Grow Sewanee, which we can keep, but if you're feeling more clever than I, feel free to submit ideas and we can decide what we like. We can also change layout, add features, etc. as we see fit. Let me know if you have questions/ideas and happy gardening!
-BB