New Garden Pictures

Hey everybody, this is your buddy Hannah who has just been given access to the Garden Blog (thanks Joan and Anthony!). For this premier contribution here are a bunch of garden pictures I took yesterday.

Joan's poppies with a nice little bee

I think these are Scott and Martin's daisies

omg Karen's magic ten bazillion cherry tomatoes! She attributes her tremendous yield to our own homemade compost from our own compost bins.

A few plots in the morning mistiness

Bronwyn and Melissa's Gigantor sunflower

Here's a little cutie for scale--Gigantor is in the upper left.

Have you noticed the new plaques on Joan's plot?  It's #1, right by the road. The steering committee made these to thank the generous groups and individuals who contributed money and resources toward making our garden happen.  

Here's our tiny strawberry plant tipped with dew

Okra!  By Bronwyn and Melissa

I think these are the Bass family's brussels sprouts

Elena's peppers!

Melanie's onion doing its spirited impression of a firework

Melanie onions in repose

Compost bins!  Please, no crazy weirdness in the bins.  Karen and I harvested one the other day and found plastic things and some odd insulation-like black foam.  No good.  If you'd like to harvest a bin too here's how:  Check the bottom for earthy soilness (just look through the slits), and if you see it take the cover off, remove the top third of the bin and set it next to the full one and start shoveling the bin contents into the empty shell.  Then move the next bin layer on top of the formerly empty one, keep shoveling, and at the bottom you'll hopefully see composty magical goodness.  Put the magic on your plot, put the lid on the bin and watch life bloom.

Adios, everybody!  Next post coming soon!