Vegetable Demonstration Garden Report for October 2017
Fresh produce donated for October, 253.01 lbs
Year to date-total: 4,184.268 pounds
October Garden Activities
- Platform, stairs, handrails and ramp installed
- Rain water reclamation system worked on
- Welcomed new members to our garden family
- Got three great heavy-duty donated picnic tables assembled
- Plantings for this month include beets, cabbage, purple lima beans, kohlrabi, turnips, collards, elbon rye, rutabaga, carrots, lettuce, kale
- Installed three new raised beds
- Put in chicken wire for varmint control
- Removed old raised beds and got rid of debris
- Weekly testing and some repairs on irrigation system.
- Routine weeding.
- Routine pest control for rats, fire ants, aphids and bunnies
- Sprayed pear tree for scale.
- Worked on irrigation leaks.