Head High on the Fourth of July!
by Rachel Tayse • July 4, 2010 • Gardening & Pets • 3 Comments
We visited the other garden last Tuesday. Look what we found:
Corn!!
Corn that hides Lil the corn princess!
Ears of corn with tassels!
Corn with whispy leaves taller than me!
Baby squash lacing through the corn and…
…heart shaped sweet potato leaves winding their way through the squash!
Our community garden plot is growing according to plan; mostly it takes care of itself. Here’s hoping the rest of the summer proceeds with fairly normal weather so that we might harvest great gobs of corn, squash, and potatoes to put up for the winter.
I love America, a place where there’s still room to sow seeds of change, where one can nurture gardens and hopes. Happy Independence Day!
Looks fantastic! I love the benign neglect method, don’t you?
How are you managing the watering? I’d really love to take on a community garden plot next year – what sort of time committment is it?
The garden has a group of rain barrels that are available for use and the organizer plans to install a pump soon. When I tried to water tonight there just wasn’t enough pressure to do much of anything.
I also specifically planted crops that would require less watering – potatoes, squash, and corn are all that are planted in the community garden plot.