This week, we harvested and donated over 56 pounds of veggies! This included butternut squash, zucchini, rhubarb, 2 kinds of kale, okra, leeks, peppers, herbs, and LOTS of tomatoes despite many being split by the torrential rainstorms as of late.
Work included preparing the former potato beds with more compost and transplanting baby kale (pictured above). After watering the new transplants, we watered them and mulched around them with grass clippings to reduce weeds. It was exciting to see new growth where seeds were planted just a week and a half ago (pictured below).
We uncovered lots of grubs and smooshed them to reduce the future numbers of Japanese Beetles. Also dug up some interesting mushrooms (still working on a good picture), that are about 4 inches long and stick up straight out of the ground. They are red/yellow/orange in color. The white spores, pictured below, hide just beneath the soil around the mushroom.
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