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 Bearden UMC Community Garden - Summer vegetables 5/14&16/26 This week, my garden friends and I planted summer vegetables such as peppers, cucumbers, okra, kale, and basil. We weeded and watered.  In bed #1, the potato plants are up to my hips in height and starting to produce buds, which we clip off.  In bed #2, the cabbage is growing well along with the elephant garlic. We added some more green onion seeds.  In bed #3, we have tomato plants and added some basil and kale to the other side of the trellis.  In bed #4, we have carrots and onions. The carrots will be ready to harvest in June. We added some more carrots seed for another crop.  In bed #5, we have a cover crop of crimson clover and plan to plant trombinco squash, which is resistant to vine borers.  In bed #6, we have cauliflower and kale that was harvested for the giveaway. We added some more kale along with okra.  In bed #7, we have tomato plants and added some basil and kale to th...

 Bearden UMC Community Garden - Harvest and Giveaway 5/8-9/26.  On Saturday, BUMC gave away 100 pounds of produce that we harvested on Friday from our community garden. We had kale, turnips, turnip green., cabbage, and collard greens.  We have a great group of volunteers at the giveaway which include the confirmation class.  Thanks, Leigh

 Bearden UMC Community Garden - Tomatoes planted 5/5/26.  This afternoon, my garden friend Carol and I planted our tomato plants by the new trellises in bed #3 & 7. We also planted some basil seedlings behind the tomato plants. We watered some of the other seedlings. God should be watering tonight and tomorrow.  In bed #1, my garden friend Ann and I cut off the blooms forming on the potato plant to help them put more energy into their roots (aka potatoes). Yesterday, Angela's students also worked on cutting of the potato blooms and transplanting pepper plants into bigger pots.  When the temperature gets consistently warmer, we will plant our pepper plant .  Thanks, Leigh 

 Bearden UMC Community Garden - Trellis placement 5/2/26. Today, I am very thankful for my strong garden friends, Mike and Dennis, who helped me put up the fencing poles and panels. We will use these panels as trellises for plants like tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, etc. The slide hammer/post driver was very handy to drive the poles into the ground.  After we put up 6 panels in 4 rows, my garden friend helped at the rummage sale.  The tomatoes and pepper are under cover due to the cold temperatures tonight. It was also helpful to have them out of the way while we put up the trellises.  My master gardener friend, Tobi, donated some great organic products to our community garden. She also donated a wheelbarrow to us.  Next week, I hope we can start planting summer vegetable. Our potatoes have started putting out flower buds that we need to pick off to help them put their energy into their roots/new potatoes. I was also able to put several layer of comp...