Wednesday Night Help

Donna lends a hand taking okra stalks to the woods. We're so glad to have her on board. We didn't compost these because they'd take too long to break down.  
Brotherly love helps us clear the garden of okra stalks.
 
It takes a village to take down the spent okra.
 
Pam's grandaughter was a big help. It was their first time in the garden and they score a TEN for work effort.
 

I Can't Believe It's Fall

We're proud to say we're one of the very few gardens that are still full of produce with Halloween less than two days away. Behind the first bed of savoy cabbage is one of our beds that's already been put into cover crop. We sowed winter rye and hairy vetch together in the field crop area and in all beds as they come out of production. This puts nitrogen ito the soil (the vetch is a legume), prevents errosion over the winter, breaks up the soil via root action and gives us lots of biomass in the spring with which to make compost.
 
Kids made their own garden tags for their own raised bed gardens. Notice the new cultivar - "Rabish".
 
Franklin mulches the main pathway with hay that was brought over by The Chapel Door's hayride.
 
Another lush overview.
 

The Lord's Acre is Still Beautiful

It's fall and the garden is still beautiful and still producing. We still have cabbage, kale, lettuce, beets, carrots and peas yet to harvest and it's October 29th 2009.
 
The kids' garden really produced this year. Last week alone we took a milk-box full of carrots, another of turnips and almost another of beets. Before that it was lettuce and chard.
 
Savoy cabbage -one of the most beautiful fall vegetables and one of the hardiest.
 
A bed of romaine ready to harvest at dawn tomorrow.