Tomatos and Cucumbers!!!

There are tomatoes and cucumbers growing in the garden!!!  The cucumbers are very very little and the tomatoes are little and green, but they are growing!  

There are all sorts of flowers on the cucumber plants!

You can see the little baby cucumber starting to grow to the left of the flower!

A few baby green tomatoes!

More baby tomatoes on a cherry tomato plant!

Guest Blog

Melissa, along with a small core group of people have been doing a great job with the community garden. She has spent many hours planting, weeding, fencing in, and generally caring for the community garden. She has faithfully kept this blog up to date. While she is away, I will try to add my ideas for the blog.

The garden is doing quite well, but with that come new concerns.

We need more help! To truly make this a COMMUNITY garden, we need more of the people from the church community to volunteer to maintain it. We are very thankful for the hours already spent by about 12 people removing the sod before it was plowed. That has already saved many hours of weeding. There were about 10 people who helped plant everything. A few of you have helped weed.We are grateful for this also.

The Boy Scouts are helping us with the weeding on Monday nights. They took the 4th off to enjoy our independence and will be gone July 18th, so we need extra volunteers while they are away. The Summer Camp people are helping one Wednesdays and doing a great job. But the garden is quite large.

Now that everything is growing, vegetables and weeds alike, we are entering a new phase. We will not only need to weed and water, but soon we will be harvesting and delivering the vegetables to organizations who can share them with people who truly need them.

If you have time on Saturday mornings from 9 o'clock to 10 or 10:30 or so, please come over for a while. If you are available Monday nights at 6:30 or after, this is another opportunity to come together as a community to garden together.

Our Savior is blessed with a beautiful Prayer Garden with flowers blooming throughout most of the year near the building. There is also a great labyrinth with grape vines and other plants. Please enjoy these. For me, the vegetable garden is my place to relax and pray while weeding, so that is my 'Prayer Garden'.

I thank God for all of you who have helped so far. I look forward to spending time with many others of you who I don't know as well as I would like. Young, old, or in between, there is a place for all in the community garden. Now, if you are able, please spend a few minutes at the garden, even if you can make it only once and you have no experience. See how God is already working in it. Pick a few weeds. Or just enjoy God's creation. I think you will find it rewarding. I know I do.


Bill

Week 6

Things are going well in the garden!  The fence seems to be slowing down the rabbits.


The kids from the summer camp did a really good job weeding a couple of sections of the garden one morning.  They were really cute about helping each other with the big weeds and they shared the garden tools well.  However, there was an awful lot of complaining about it being too hot- they were still good workers though.


As you'll be able to see from the pictures below, the weeds are growing quite well.  We could really use some more help to keep the weeds under control.  Join us on Saturday mornings at 9:00 or come out and work along with the Boy Scouts on Monday evenings at 6:30.


Here's some pictures from the week:

The garden!

The pumpkin patch

The peppers are getting so BIG- won't be long before the harvest!

Beautiful rows of cherry tomato plants

3 peppers on 1 plant!

Flower on a cantaloupe plant

The leaves on the watermelon plant are pretty

The gourd plants are growing so well!

The grass is taking over the herb section  :-(

You can sort of see the rows of bean plants growing among the weeds.