Gardeners' notes compiled July 27:
July 20 - Harvested 30 lbs. of cucumbers. Harvested more squash.
July 22 - Harvested Yukon Gold potatoes with campers Lauren, Enni, Julia, and Stara.
Harvested and made Merc delivery: Yukon potatoes, squash, cucumbers, basil, tarragon, sage, cherry tomatoes.
July 23 - Pulled dead squash plants from row, freeing 1/3 of the row.
Staked and twined corn and gourds (removed one that looked like it was covered in a grey ash; Barbara thinks they were eggs).
Leaving flowers on opal basil; they are for flower arrangements, although edible, too.
July 24 - Harvested herbs with grades campers. Quinn and Max helped harvest squash, cucumbers, and Sun Gold cherry tomatoes.
Okanis Garden Groundbreaking
Students, teachers and a volunteer on the site of the Okanis Garden, a project funded, in part, by a grant from the Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation
Okanis Garden Plan
Rich Bireta, Grant Township trustee and member of Citizens for Responsible Planning, holds the Okanis Garden plan while measuring out the locations of the planned garden beds
Locating the Okanis Garden
Rich Bireta helps determine the location of Okanis Garden beds on January 7, 2009.
Measuring Okanis Garden
Okanis Garden mentor, Barbara Clark, measures the length and width of the planned garden beds
Okanis Garden Celebration
Happily celebrating the end of the first day of work in the garden, March 7 2009. Pictured David Werdin-Kennicott, Laurie Ward, Julie Fernandes-Ferreira, Barbara Clark and Melissa Watson
Okanis Garden First Tilling
Melissa Watson operates the tiller on the first day of work in the garden on March 7, 2009
Staking the Okanis Garden
Julie Fernandes-Ferreira drives a stake while laying out the garden plot.
