All the food grown here is served in the Soup Kitchen!
Bill has drained the irrigation lines at the garden and has also rebuild Bed #3
The squash bed has been cleaned up and a tarp is now covering it. Lumber has been purchased to build 3 ft by 15 ft beds in this area.
The water tanks located outside the fence have been converted to 3 brightly colored raised beds. One bed has turnips and around Halloween Mary will be planting garlic in the two remaining beds.
We still have some tomato plants still producing and the last of the sugar baby watermelons have been picked. Swiss chard is still going strong and need to be picked regularly.
Pollinators are still enjoying the basil and flowers so we are holding off on cleaning out and covering the remainder of the vegetable beds.
The squash bed has been cleaned up and a tarp is now covering it. Lumber has been purchased to build 3 ft by 15 ft beds in this area.
The water tanks located outside the fence have been converted to 3 brightly colored raised beds. One bed has turnips and around Halloween Mary will be planting garlic in the two remaining beds.
We still have some tomato plants still producing and the last of the sugar baby watermelons have been picked. Swiss chard is still going strong and need to be picked regularly.
Pollinators are still enjoying the basil and flowers so we are holding off on cleaning out and covering the remainder of the vegetable beds.
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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