First Harvest 11/19/25

 Bearden UMC Community Garden - First Harvest 11/19/25

Today, we harvested kale, collard and mustard greens from bed #9 under the pastor's window to give away with the Thanksgiving boxes.

Bed #9 We left the top inner leaves so the plants will continue to grow. 

We harvested collards (12 oz), kale (11 oz), and mustard greens (3 oz) and greens can continue to produce leaves in bed #9. 


Bed #1 has a cover crop of buckwheat. 


Bed #3 with a cover crop of buckwheat. 

Bed #4 is empty except for some herbs and flower at the front.


Bed #5 with a cover crop of crimson clover. 

 

Bed #6 with kale and mustard green plants donated by UT Kitchen Garden and planted today. 


Bed #7 with beet seedlings. The seeds were provided by the Knox County Community Garden and Grower's Alliance. 

Bed # 8 with Fava Bean seedlings, which are a great cover crop and produce beans to eat.. 


Bed # 10 with Fava Bean seedlings. 


Bed # 11 with Fava Bean seedlings. 

 

The whole garden and the gardener's shadow by bed #12 with more Fava Bean seedlings. 

I hope to start construction on a structure for creating our own compost. Let me know if you have building skills and would like to help. 


Thanks, Leigh 




Location: 4407 Knoxville City Greenways, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA

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