HOLY COW!!

WOW! What an amazing group of people showed up at the garden for a fun time!! I'm not sure which was more fun...watching the adults poke holes so the corn could be planted, the 12 and under kids having a weed pulling contest, or the group that was planting the green beans to perfection!! Oh wait...I DO know what was most fun: the WATER FIGHT after we had treats!!! (Sorry Muki!) I should have taken more pictures, but this gives a little idea of what went on!

SOME people talked more than they worked...others worked while they talked!!

THE WEED PULLING GANG . . .

EVEN THE TEENAGERS HAD FUN. . . and worked hard, too!! Thanks guys!! ^_^

THE CORN PLANTING GOT DONE IN SHORT ORDER!!

LET THE WATER WAR BEGIN!!

LET THE CUCUMBER HUNT BEGIN!!!

KATAUNA CAME UP WITH THE BIGGEST ONE AND WAS NAMED "CUCUMBER QUEEN!!"

Nothing quite like gardening with good friends!!

Summer Garden Party. . .

6:00 a.m. is a BEAUTIFUL time to work in the garden!! We had a great turnout and got a good start on getting ready for our corn planting next week!

We pulled onions, beets, and carrots; picked squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers, and SQUISHED a bunch of squash bugs with our gloved fingers!! (Does that make them "squish bugs"?)

And everyone left with a bagful of produce!!

Not bad for an hour's worth of work!

Salsa Time!

Head over to the garden and get some tomatoes, onions, and peppers, and mix up a batch of salsa!! What a great time of year when there are so many vegetables ripe and ready to be enjoyed! Be sure to dig up some carrots and beets REAL SOON because what is left will be dug up and set out on the corner for the rest of our neighbors to use if "garden workers" have picked all they care to use. July 24th is JUST AROUND THE CORNER and that means getting ready to plant our corn, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans!!

Fresh Veggies

Well, the muncher cruncher cucumbers are at it AGAIN!! Just when I thought it would be awhile before the cucumbers started producing, I was WRONG! There were TONS ready to pick. They sure are good producers, and the cucumbers are really tasty!! Be sure to spend some time in the garden pulling weeds, and picking a cucumber or two. The tomatoes are just about ready to turn red, too!

Primary Kids' Planting Time

With some good help from the adults, we got the broccoli patch pulled, carrots thinned, beets thinned, and the peanut bed ready for the Primary kids to plant! The pictures don't show how much the wind was blowing, but it surely was!! The primary kids came anyway and did a great job working in the garden! We thinned carrots, cut off seed heads from the onions, pulled some beets, AND planted peanuts!! We LOVE our peanut patch!

Garden Photo Shoot

The garden is looking well-cared for, thanks to everyone's help!! Hope you enjoy the pictures. (We also got a beautiful load of "BLACK GOLD" delivered today, thanks to the generosity of ALLIED WASTE and Jason Godfrey! THANK YOU!!)

Thin, thin, and thin some more!

Another beautiful day in the garden! Too bad we didn't get more pictures! We got two beds of beets thinned and put a WHOLE WHEELBARROW full of beet greens out on the corner for people to take home. (We only gave less than 1/4 to the chickens after it got dark!) Thanks to the Porters for their diligent work getting so many weeds out of the pathways and by the shed!! WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Thanks to Rick, and Toni, Elizabeth, Clarene, and Faith Ann for helping out today. Others came on Friday since they couldn't be here on Saturday. We ALWAYS appreciate everyone's help!! THANK-YOU!!