Use for chamomile

Week 4

This week we have strawberries (red, juicy, seedy, things with green tops), radish, mixed greens, chamomile (long stemmed white flowers), green onions, red chard, and kale. 

The next items only some of you received this week. 

Broccoli (green, thick stemmed, looks like a flower), cucumbers (long green, tubular things), dill (fern looking like leaves), jalapeño (type of pepper, has a bigger top and narrows to a point on bottom of fruit, please be advised to wear gloves when cutting, the juice could burn), asparagus.

Sorry about the funny descriptions, but I hope hey help if anyone has questions about what something is. 

God is good!

Surveying the damage...

We now have an extension of topsoil-garden that extends to the blackcaps. 

This was a row of carrots and 4 rows of beets, planted, mulched, and already up. The only thing I think is salvageable is part of a row of beets.

 

This was the end of a sweet potato row, you can still see the plants hanging on but the mound of dirt that was around them is gone.

Most of the green in this picture is where I tilled the weeds into the soil...all that is left is weeds. I planted cucumbers in 4 mounds but they are gone. I went out tonight and I found 3 cucumber sprouts in one spot...so not all is lost.

We will have to wait on the new lettuce bed to see if it floated away too.

This is the waterway, still running tonight but is usually dry.

This is washed in debris...

some more debris that cause back-ups and over flows all over.

From this I turn to the beans...and we have a lot of them planted...they are full of whole from pesky bugs called bean leaf beetle and they destroy everything...I think I've also seen some cucumber beetle on them too.

Finally, we celebrate, not only do we still have most of the garden but we have 2 new baby chicks. 

Rushing Water

The kale underwater.

I replanted some cucumbers in this spot Wednesday. They are gone.

Water rushing through the middle of the garden.

So much water coming from all different directions.  

Approximately 1 inch and 8 tenths fell in about 30 minutes. Evan and I went out in the dark to try and divert some of the water from running into the garden but with so much water rushing and more on its way we'll just pray that things are still living in the morning. 

June 19

Looking forward to some family favorites this next week. Here is a preview.

The first blossom on the peas, finally!

The strawberries are starting to ripen fast and with the predicted heat for the weekend probably won't last long.

A big thank you to Mark for weeding the raspberries and taking a turn using the wheel hoe in the potatoes!

Also, a big thank you on Monday was to Brenda for helping lay some black plastic around some melons and tackling some weeds in the carrots!

There are many more weeds if anyone is looking for some hours...did you know that if you weed and don't pick them up and it happens to rain or stays cloudy and rains the weeds just come back. It is like  shuffling cards, we move them around but never get rid of them. 

So, the past few days with the sun shining have been great for the weeder, not so great for the weeds! 

June 21

Oh, just look at those strawberries. A whole 8+lbs today and a blessing of 1.2 inches of rain last night.

Week 3

This week we have lots of greens! 

Top left: mixed greens (spinach, beet top, kale, lettuces), buttercrunch head lettuce, kale

Lower left: arugula, Choy, green onions, baby Swiss chard (this has a very earthy taste and can be eaten cooked of uncooked), rhubarb (last week for it), radish, spinach. Some of you may also have broccoli and/or asparagus. Enjoy!

Rhubarb cake

Week 2

This week in the box is top: arugula, it has sort of an spicy/mustardy smell, kale, mixed greens, spinach, it has smooth, kind of round leaves. Bottom: radish, rhubarb, asparagus(only in some boxes), jalapeño jelly, green onions, baby Choy, it has long white stems and is in a bunch. Some of you received an herb: sage, cilantro, parsley, or chives.

God is so good!

June 10

This morning was beautiful...

The view towards the garden!

And then the sun came and warmed up everything...and He proclaimed it good. That is how I felt today. 

They say many hands make light work, or at least I think that is how it goes.

Thanks to the Plummer's for helping with the washing of seed trays and containers so I can reuse them. 

Also, a big thank you to Pam for pulling WEEDS!

June 7

Praise God we had some sunshine! 

Tonight we worked on making sweet potato ridges or mounds and laying black plastic over them to warm the soil.

We lay a soaking hose underneath the plastic so we are able to water. 

 

Here Evan is using the wheel hoe with the furrowing attachment to put dirt over the edges of plastic. This will keep the plastic in place. The sweet potatoes like a very warm soil and climate, so the plastic will stay in place the entire season and we will plant the sweet potatoes through it. 

June 4

Oh the joy a little radish can bring!

 

 

Eli helped harvest radishes this morning and everyone he pulled out was oh my goodness, or look mom, oh wow!!  

Did you know that rhubarb was useful for more than just eating?

Here he is again and this time he says the leaves make great hats.

Actually, rhubarb leaves are poisonous. They can be used in a form of steeped tea to keep away garden pests.

At the end of the harvest this is what it looked like...

9 filled boxes ready for pick-up. Thank you April for helping today. Praise God for providing just what we need when we need it. Amen.

Week 1

In the box this week is kale, oregano, salad mix (baby lettuces, kale, spinach, and beet tops), green onions, rhubarb, popcorn, orange marmalade, and radish or asparagus(not pictured).

June 3

Eli was helping me put on the tape for the names on the boxes.

How this works...Each of you will have 2 boxes with your name on it. On the first week you will take one home with your produce. Please wipe it out with a damp cloth, they are wax covered so water should not be a problem but they are your responsibility to keep clean. The second week I will fill the second box and your job is to bring back the previous weeks box so I can fill it for the following week. This exchange will happen every week.