Garden Clean Up

The community garden is all cleaned up for the winter.  Except for some lonely chives, there is nothing left in the garden- it looks pretty sad.


We had some wonderful volunteers who came on a Saturday morning to help get everything all cleaned up!  Special thanks go out to all the hard-working church members, boy scouts, and others who joined us.   


First we picked all the last veggies from the garden.  There were lots and lots of big and little gourds, pumpkins, bell peppers, lots of jalapeno peppers, a few zucchini, and green and purple beans.

Then we pulled up all the plants, took out the tomato cages, and tried to pull up as many of the weeds as we could.  Many weeds and some of the plants had grown up the fence, so we had to untangle them from the fence.  Finding the gourds and pumpkins among all the vines was a little like an Easter egg hunt.  We also gathered up all the water hoses and put them away for winter storage.

Getting the weeds out from around the fence

Picking up all the stray tomatoes

 And then the garden got rototilled.

If you look at the far end of the garden on the left side you can see the huge mound of vines and plants that we took out of the garden.  The pile was close to 6 feet tall and probably 6 feet across at the base!  This will all be composted.


We are almost finished compiling all the donation amounts and volunteer hours so I will share that information with you soon- I think you'll be very impressed by all that was accomplished in the first year of the community garden!