This week was unseasonably cool! But guess what? The lettuce loved it. We harvested sweet, crunchy, big lettuce leaves. Rarely is it like that in July! We really do need that hot weather to come back, though – it really brings on the melons, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and all those summer crops! Speaking of that, we had our first tomatoes this week. Not enough to sell, so the children got the benefit of the first fruits!
I was on an errand out to the church last week and stopped to talk to Pavlina, who was weeding the lower raised beds. She had a bed about half weeded and the other half had weeds as tall as and mostly taller than the beets that were supposed to be growing there. I helped her a little and had to hold the good plant in the ground while pulling the weeds around it so that the good would not come out with the bad! What a job! But, boy, it sure looked nice in the part she had all done. When I talked to her this week, she said that all those beds had been weeded. I think some angels must have come in and wiped those weeds away so the good fruit could grow! No…really, Janell and Virginia did a lot of it. I captured a wheelbarrow full of weeds on my camera. It is sooo good to see them NOT growing anymore! I’d like to have a before and after photo of the beds, but you’ll have to use your imagination. If anyone wants to receive the satisfaction of pulling weeds, come on out!
Some of the little girls help take the weeds to the burn pile
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