Thursday, July 3, 2014

Food Forest update from the Twarzek's!

Things at the garden look great!  There isn't anything ready but there are signs that the plants will be producing soon. There are a couple of tomato plants that have green tomatoes and some of the zucchini have flowers. There were not a lot of weeds so that's good!  I loved the 3 sisters- so neat!  






              "Knee high by the 4th of July!" At least Kennedy's knees!

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Update from the Moody Family

The Moody family visited the HME garden on Saturday, August 24th in the afternoon.  The weather was perfect with blue skies and sun.  We spent a little over an hour and did a lot of weeding.  In particular we went 
around some of the watermelon, squash, carrots, a few rows of corn, tomatoes, and reclaimed about a row of strawberries.  We repositioned one tomato cage.  It looks like some of the corn has broken.  Perhaps it 
was caused by winds, as we lost almost 100 corn stalks in our own garden one year from wind.
The peppers looks great.  Ella picked one small carrot.
Its a beautiful garden.  It could use more weeding around the strawberries.  First year won't produce many berries but if kept weeded they will produce well next year.

















Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Update from the Steinberg-Barcza Family


Gorgeous Day at the Garden

                                                                                          Cole and Dylan with lots of cucumbers:)                                 




  
Baby Watermelon


    Green Peppers......lots of little ones. They don't want to grow.


Touche


                                                                   Baby Pumpkin





Little, Little Carrots

Friday, August 9, 2013

Message from the Neupert Family


Here's how the food forest is going...we picked a cucumber, zucchini and one cherry tomato which Joelee ate right there and said was delicious!!! We noticed a carrot peeking out of the ground, a pumpkin on it's way to being a jack-o-lantern, quite a few adorable tiny watermelon...the cucumbers, peppers and squash should be ready very soon, they just need to grow a 
little bit more...there's quite a few green tomato's too!!!




Lily and Joelee


The start of a pumpkin. 


Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Update from the Page Family


Nick, with his little brother, showing a cucumber he picked.
                                                             


                                                       


Thursday, August 1, 2013

Update from Ms. Farwell


It's my last summer working day until the end of August, so I decided to take a stroll through the garden before I left...it's amazing to see how much everything has grown since those days of planting back in May!
 Spotted a tiny watermelon starting to grow.

Many of the pepper plants have some small peppers growing on them.  

Can't wait till these are ready to be picked!

Hard to see from my cell phone picture, but some neighboring chickens were nearby to keep me company.

I didn't see anything ready to be picked yet, but I'm sure very soon we will be able to harvest some veggies!

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Update from the Scaccia Family

The garden is really looking good. It did require some weed eating around the fence today.
We think that the beans and peas need to be moved to the other side of the fence next year.
The vegetables on the east side of the garden don't get any sun until around noon. 
Thanks again to all the families coming to weed the garden. Your support is greatly appreciated!!!








                                                                     Cucumbers







                                                                   Pumpkin





                                                                   Cherry Tomatoes