[Garden] Zucchini donation

[Paul Nijjar]

There were a lot of zucchini on Sunday. I picked most of the big ones
(they were heavy!) and donated about eight of them to St. John's
Kitchen this morning. 

A bunch of the zucchini were nibbled by something (raccoons or
groundhogs). I took those home and ate them myself. The zucchini
plants are getting yellow, so I don't know how many more harvests we
will get. I am hoping that some water will revive the plants. 

In other sad news the raccoons have discovered our corn. It looks like
a bunch of our other stuff is also getting trampled on. 

In other mystifying news somebody has harvested a bunch of the onions,
several heads of garlic and several heads of cabbage. This happened
sometime between Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon. I think it's
totally cool for people associated with the garden or FnB to harvest
stuff, but if you do so please note down your harvest in the notebook
in the shed. I am moderately worried that in addition to raccoons and
rodents maybe the garden is infested with primates. (Speaking of
which, there are these beautiful shiny beetles on our basil. They are
probably up to no good, but on the other hand they are beautiful and
shiny.) 

I did some watering on Sunday. If we don't get rain then maybe it will
be appropriate to water some more on Wednesday. 

To those picking chard: it is better to pick off a few leaves from
each plant rather than slicing the whole plant at the base of the
stem. This lets you get more harvests per plant. Having said that we
have enough chard that it probably does not matter a huge amount.

- Paul