Community Garden Update

What's in your World Garden—Thanks you all —the garden is doing wonderfully well. The eggplants are producing and will continue till frost.  As the fruit grow it has “creases”. The creases lessen as the fruit matures--when the creases disappear and the skin is more or less smooth it is ripe for harvest. The stems are somewhat tough and you may want to cut with hand clippers.

The Green and Yellow Zucchini in the tires are ready to harvest when they are six or more inches long but before they are nine inches.  Firmly grasp the fruit and gently pull and twist—the fruit stem should break, if not take your trusty garden knife or clippers and cut the stem.

In a couple of weeks we will ask you to help transform the tires into a fall garden removing the squash, refreshing  the soil and planting broccoli and cauliflower—stay tuned we will do the work on a Sunday morning.

The tomatoes speak for themselves. With this week’s abundant rain the fruit should grow rapidly and color begin to appear in the fruit in about two weeks. Once you see color on at least half of the fruit body it will be completely red on the inside and can be harvested and finish changing color on your kitchen counter. Try “fried green tomatoes” harvest one or two when they are about the size of a baseball. Bread with Panko and fry—top with a basil leaf and think you are at the Whistle Stop Café in middle Georgia.