All the food grown here is served in the Soup Kitchen!
note from Terri...
Irrigation system has been fixed and is on a timer and is watering our garden babies every morning @ 6 am. Thank you Bill for all your hard work and your persistence in making this happen.
All grass in garden has been covered in cardboard and a thick layer of mulch applied. No more mowing!!!
Broyles has donated tomato plants and they have been planted where the Bib butterhead lettuce has bolted.
Soup Kitchen has opened back up and is serving meals to go in pavilion. Garden provided 30 gallon bags of fresh greens to residents on opening day.
Seed trials growing great. We have monster squash plants and in a short time will be able to pick some veggies. Rattlesnake and Lazy housewife beans have reached the top of their trellis. Baby basil have popped up and cosmos have bloomed.
In shed there is a clipboard titled "Produce Log" when picking veggies please write down what you are taking to kitchen. We want a count at end of season of what has been grown for the kitchen. Also this will help up identify our successes as well as our failures for next year's garden.
The irrigation system is not hooked up to the squash bed so we still need to utilize the watering schedule for this area. Please let Mary or I know if you are unable to water your day so we can get it covered.
Irrigation system has been fixed and is on a timer and is watering our garden babies every morning @ 6 am. Thank you Bill for all your hard work and your persistence in making this happen.
All grass in garden has been covered in cardboard and a thick layer of mulch applied. No more mowing!!!
Broyles has donated tomato plants and they have been planted where the Bib butterhead lettuce has bolted.
Soup Kitchen has opened back up and is serving meals to go in pavilion. Garden provided 30 gallon bags of fresh greens to residents on opening day.
Seed trials growing great. We have monster squash plants and in a short time will be able to pick some veggies. Rattlesnake and Lazy housewife beans have reached the top of their trellis. Baby basil have popped up and cosmos have bloomed.
In shed there is a clipboard titled "Produce Log" when picking veggies please write down what you are taking to kitchen. We want a count at end of season of what has been grown for the kitchen. Also this will help up identify our successes as well as our failures for next year's garden.
The irrigation system is not hooked up to the squash bed so we still need to utilize the watering schedule for this area. Please let Mary or I know if you are unable to water your day so we can get it covered.
The Soup Kitchen Project Team posing after a long day of hard work prepping the gardens for new plantings.
L-R: Phyllis Conner, Lois Blanks, Jeanie jackson, Randi Nott, George Blanks
Kneeling: Teresa Uhls
MG's at work in the Soup Kitchen Garden
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Photos from June 2013 Soup Kitchen garden installation.
Twenty seven middle-school children and their adult leaders from Bethlehem, PA spent the week with Randi installing an alternative-technique vegetable garden behind Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. They utilized wood pallets, straw bales, and tires, as well as a rain gutter grow system to grow a variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs. They also added rain barrels with soaker hoses or float valves to minimize the need to hand water the planters. Using recycled cinder blocks, they built a 3 section compost bin. To top it all off, the kids made bird houses and signs as garden art. Their art complemented the recycled metal tools that were welded together to make "scare crows" for a bird bath and bird feeder. For additional information, contact the BSMGA Soup Kitchen Project Leader: Terri Taylor
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Photo used under Creative Commons from Michele Dorsey Walfred
