[Garden] [BULK] Zucchini donation

[Dave Dolson]

The basil is quite large, and while it's healthy I suggest it is a good
time to make pesto for the winter.
We run it through the food processor and fill ice-cube trays with it.
I think I'll grab a couple of plants this week.

I'm guilty of not writing down what I've been taking. I didn't take
anything this weekend, but I've taken beans, squash, zucchini, turnip,
chard and one garlic over the past few weeks.


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> [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of Paul Nijjar
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:43 PM
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: [BULK] [Garden] Zucchini donation
> Importance: Low
> 
> 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
> 
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