It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club did not meet last week, but Treehuggers got the raspberries installed in the food forest during class, and Teen Eco-Summit met to work on project ideas.  Next week, we will harvest all the sweet potatoes, carrots and onions that we can despite the cold. We will also spend some time indoors making plans for our winter activities. 

It was a great week in the garden this week!  We cleaned out the shed, harvested some late crops, processed garlic and seeds, and got the sunchokes tucked into their new home. We held our annual Plant your Pumpkin event at the Worthington Farmers Market and added some new members to the Phyte Club Team.

It was a great week in the garden this week! Treehuggers installed the orchard portion of the native food forest-- including persimmon, pawpaw and elderberry, among others. They will add raspberries next week before that area settles down for winter. Phyte Club got all of the garlic planted and installed the row covers on two of the beds. Next week, we will harvest sweet potatoes and onions, start some radishes under the row covers and clean out the shed in preparation for the winter. 

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.