Today was a great day to come together with other gardeners and start one of our larger projects: building the tool shed. The finished shed will be a 10x10 red cedar structure. We can't wait to store the wheelbarrows and often used garden tools there soon! We set the four corners in cement this morning and still managed to get so much more finished at the garden by noon.
To make room for some of the fall crops, we pulled the finished corn stalks. Several of us were surprised at how easy they are to pull - *MUCH* easier than some of the weeds we have! We also put down four yards of mulch in the orchard and between the rose bushes and hedge row along Suburban. Heidi Lung brought an apple pie and her prize-winning peach blackberry pie. I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a "pie break" but that's what we took mid-morning! That hit the spot and regenerated us for more mulching and weeding until lunch. Lunch was an enchilada casserole and strawberry walnut salad served on compostable plates.
A very special thank you to everyone that came to the work day and put the "community" in our garden: Dwayne, Freddie, Martin, Julia, Dot, Sharon, Ed, Linda, Chase, Ben, Claire, Jeff, Analia and Teresa. Volunteers of all ages and levels of expertise are what keep us going strong! Thank you all!
