by Barbara Munkres
Kelly Suber and daughter Joanna from Sacred Heart, Lexington Catholic Community, and Christina Sym, Sandy Gardiner, Duncan Todd and Barbara Munkres from Pilgrim Church tended the garden on Saturday morning, April 17.
It was a cold day: 41 degrees with a stiff wind. The first work:
Duncan Todd hung up the new scale in the doorway where the digital scale hung last year! It is ready to weigh the asparagus when it comes up and is tall enough to pick.
Carla gave us a tour of the gardens and we saw neat rows of parsley that had been planted as seedlings. Between the rows of parsley were small garlic plants sprouting from seeds. The asparagus had not come up yet as of Saturday AM.
Carla instructed us and worked along with us. Many uninvited plants were sprouting, and several of us worked at weeding.
Remember the newspapers that helped mark the paths last year? Saturday would have been a good time to spread them, but the wind would have swept them to the fence on the eastern side of the garden! Carla decided that it would be wasted effort to attempt that job.
Kelly Suber and her daughter Joanna helped plant red and white onions, and Joanna planted a row of chard from seed.
Sandy Gardiner and Christina Sym also helped plant the onions. Christina spread compost, and tilled the soil. Duncan and Sandy and Barbara were part of the weeding team.
There was a festive atmosphere that day because of the big Patriot’s Day Weekend. On the green, flags were flying and bunting was flapping in the stiff breeze. It was fun to be at the garden that day. I think all of us went home happy and satisfied, but perhaps Joanna was happiest: Carla gave her some dandelions to feed to the
chickens when the garden work was finished!