July 17 Garden Report

By Amy Swanson

I went to help with the harvesting this morning.  What a bounty!  As we walked over to the Pantry, Carla, Theresa and I were guessing that maybe close to 30 pounds was harvested. Here are the items I remember that we picked and some of the associated poundage.

Cucumbers (~ 9lbs)

Corn (~5.4 lbs) — The first of the corn was picked, with its fresh grassy smell.  There’s some animal who is also after the corn so we’ll see how much gets left for the rest of us!

Onions…red and white  –Beautiful specimens

Basil

Flowers

Green beans (~ 5lbs)

Squash blooms

Rosemary

We walked over to deliver the produce to the Pantry and I must say that the tableau was beautiful (and fragrant!).  We wheeled most of it layered in a garden cart with trays of squash blossoms and flowers and basil and rosemary on the top layer.  (You can see it below.) We had enough produce that it did not all fit in the cart so Theresa and I carried the overflow.

Harvest Produce on July 17th

And guess who we met working at the pantry?  Our Joyce Greif!

FYI, Carla is expecting to harvest potatoes, peppers and more onions next week. Speaking of onions, here is what I learned this week–after the 21st, most of the onion growth goes into the bulb and if you were to visit the
garden, you would see these beautiful bulbs looking like they just been shot out of the ground.