It was a great week in the garden this week! Treehuggers finished building our fence-- though there are a few finishing touches to put on the gates. We finished adding soil to the border bed, got the garlic sorted, cleaned up the pathways and flattened the ground for the new sunflower bed. Next week will be a heavy planting week, with food forest installation and garlic planting, as well as getting the row covers up over the winter crops. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We filled in the south border bed, finished harvesting the gourds, pumpkins and cherry tomatoes, cleaned up the fruit area, cleaned out the greenhouse and worked on our watering system. Treehuggers got the stakes put up for our deer fencing around the native food forest. Next week, we will finish adding soil to the new border bed, sort and plant the garlic, smooth the back pathway and continue fall clean up. Treehuggers will get the fencing finished on Tuesday, so we can plant the food forest the following week. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We planted beans and spinach, set up our vermicomposting, made plans for future gardens and harvested 18 more pounds of tomatoes! Next week, we will work on garden clean up, finish mulching our pathways, put in our cover crops and probably harvest the last of our tomatoes. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We finished up the corn harvest, continued harvesting tomatoes, and prepped the south end bed for cover cropping. Next week, we will plant more beans and cabbages, prepare the row covers, move the sunchokes, and set up our vermicomposting. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We continued our harvesting, finished cleaning up the herb bed, and did some repair work on the fence. Next week, we will finish up the corn harvest, get control of the tomatoes, and prep the south end bed for cover cropping. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We harvested more corn, tomatoes and cucumbers, cleaned up the natives bed, kept watch over our monarchs, and hosted nearly 60 people at our garden tour open house. Phyte Club will meet on Monday Sept 8 and we will work on more harvesting, cleaning up the herb bed, setting up row covers and doing some repair work on the fence.

It was a great week in the garden this week! We did a lot of clean up, built grow bubbles, laid out our future food forest,  harvested corn, tomatoes and cucumbers; planted potatoes and beans, and watched our baby bunnies grow up and leave the nest. There's no Phyte Club next week due to Labor Day, but we will meet again the following Monday to continue our fall harvest, move compost, and get the south bed ready for cover cropping, and watch our monarchs start the migration.

It is going to be a great year in the garden this year! Phyte Club officially starts on Monday, Aug 25th after school. We will meet in the Big Room at 3:15 for a short meeting and then go out to work in the garden until 4:15. Since school let out in May, we have harvested more than 200 pounds of produce and donated over 150 pounds of it to the Worthington Resource Pantry. What we haven't donated gets used in school activities or saved for seed. We have broken ground on our Native Food Forest and are working to add biodiversity to the labyrinth and the Ohio Natives gardens. On Monday, we will replant the southwest beds for a late fall harvest, build grow-bubbles, and prepare the soil for our food forest. Find out more at linworthschoolcommunitygarden.org. 

It was a great year in the garden this year! We harvested over 400 pounds of produce for the Worthington Resource Pantry, grew hundreds of plants, presented at the Worthington Farmers Market, The Worthington Science Day, the Worthington Green Team Pollinator Pathway Party, Green on the Green and more. We gave away dozens of native gardens, expanded our worm composting, built a new fence-- and a proper gate!!!-- put in a cistern and drip irrigation system, made healthy snacks, dried herbs, made soap, planted 12 native trees, refreshed the Linworth Labyrinth, and, as of this writing, our sweet potato vines are still alive. Over the summer, we will continue the labyrinth glow-up, prepare the area for our Native Food Forest, harvest using new and improved harvesting techniques, experiment with rain water collection, and probably eat some homemade herb flavored ice cream. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! Linworth School Community Garden was at Green on the Green on Saturday morning talking about sustainability and raising some funds. We also finished the squash trellises, laid out soaker hoses for our new water system, finished cleaning up the labyrinth and got some new plants installed in the labyrinth, herb and flower beds. We planted two of the three sisters and added some beans and cucumbers to what is growing in the food garden. This week, we will do some harvesting of cool season crops, plant tomatoes and start other warm season plants, and finish organizing the food garden. Don't worry-- the sweet potatoes are still alive. If it stays warm, we will plant them at the last Phyte Club of the school year-- May 19th.. 

It was a great week in the garden this week even though our plants were not big enough to sell at the Worthington Farmers Market this week. We will be at Green on the Green this coming Saturday-- May 10th-- from 9-noon selling plants and crafts as well as talking about sustainability. We did finish prepping the 3 Sisters beds. We mulched and cleaned up the Ohio Natives garden, installed the cistern, planted two trees, built a trellis for the sweet potatoes (which are still alive!)  and got started on building the trellis in the new squash bed. Even more exciting-- Fenn put the finishing touches on the new gate, so now it has a proper latch and everything! This coming week, we will plant the 3 Sisters and the bush beans, mulch around the new trees, finish the edging, and weed the thistles on the rim of the labyrinth.