The move is on!

We have started to move the garden. One bed has been moved completely, and two other bed's pallets have been removed. Unfortunately the pallets that were underground started to crumble after they dried in the air. We won't be able to salvage as much of those as we had hoped. We hope to find a new home (chipped up) for them or maybe use them for fire wood - we will see.

Saturday October 2nd will be the biggest day of moving with help from Civic Works during the Ricky Meyers' Day of Service. Come out and join us.

We are also going to start to plant our winter crops. We will be doing onion sets and garlic again, as well as some swiss chard, and some 30 day radishes. We will also try to sneak some carrots under the wire - just because we can.

Harvesting and prepping for the move

Yesterday the 5th grade harvested 1/2 a bushel of winter squash (mini pumpkins), a peck of tomatoes, a peck of hot peppers, as well as sunflower, and dill seed. We cleaned out three of the 5 raised beds and discarded all of the harlequin bug infested cabbage family plants, we also weeded all the beds. There is a lot of basil to be harvested and more hot peppers that need to turn red.

We saw many other insects, mainly beneficials and saw many worms - a good sign. We will start to dismantle some of the beds for the move this week. We will also do more hand picking of the pests.

The canoe garden has bokchoy and a regular head cabbage that is getting munched on by cabbage worms. I have picked no less than 15 of these pests off of these cabbages. we have also seen cucumber beetles and harlequin bugs on the cabbage - there are only 11 plants! Ugh! i wonder how much a floating row cover would help?