Hello All,
Our shipment of seedlings came in last Monday so we started our winter veggie planting the very next day! Three beds were prepped and planted with 337 transplants and 120 direct sown seeds by the end of the week! A little over 700 of the seedlings were picked up and brought to a couple of Livermore schools. The rest we will continue to plant in the garden (two beds were planted this morning from beds that were prepped on Saturday) and pot up for the other schools!
Kaiser and SCIF were out last week lending their hand to the garden. They helped to harvest for the pantries as well as prepped 2 beds for our seedlings! From beds A06 & B06 they gleaned out the veggies, weeded, fed the beds fertilizer and amended with 2-3” of Oliveria compost! Two days later those beds were planted with Bok Choy, cabbage and peas!
Over the past couple of weeks we watched as some critters came along and started eating our pumpkins! A couple of weeks ago York helped to place some gopher screens underneath the pumpkins to help keep the gophers from eating them from the bottom up. Now we are dealing with the above ground critters. RM made some cages out of this hard wire cloth we have and York helped to cover most of the pumpkins up with the cages. There were a few pumpkins that were beyond help and we had to sacrifice to the critters but the majority are now covered with RM’s cages! Wish us luck!
There were about 700 seedlings transplanted to 4” pots on Tuesday with another 784 potted up on Friday. Saturday’s crew helped to transfer the pots we made up on Tuesday into the hoop houses and potted up another ~300 cauliflowers!
Ground cherries were trimmed back, holes were dug in the expansion for more trees, York brought us more clean gloves and they got to watch the compost hub get filled back up when the truck stopped by last week!
Total harvest for the week was 852.55lbs! One Nation Dream Makers, Try-Valley Haven, Livermore Homeless Refuge, St. Bart’s, Open Heart Kitchen and Culinary Angels all had fresh produce to share with our community thanks to everyone’s hard work!
Take care
Lori
