A Fall Clean-up in the Learning Garden

 Twelve International students helped clean up the Learning Garden and Greenhouse. We picked a final harvest of Tomatoes and Peppers.

Most vegetables we plant are annuals. Annuals are plants that grow, flower, produce seeds and die in one growing season. The students removed these plants from the garden and put them in the compost.

Here is a fall strawberry!

All the beds were gone over and weeded now they are ready to be covered in leaves for our rainy winter.

This group worked so well together, the work was done and there was still plenty of energy!

Thank You Student Volunteers!!

Large Tomatoe Plants Need Repotting

This spring I underestimated the size of the pots I would need for the heirloom varieties of tomatoes we are growing in the greenhouse. That said I really needed to get these big plants into big enough pots for them to thrive for the rest of the growing season. Here is how it went:

It is hard to tell how big this plant is this is only a two gallon pot

 

 

This pot is three times bigger!

 

Our greenhouse at SMU has tables that can be taken apart to give plants more head room

These large tomato plants now have enough growing room and enough soil to produce well into the fall growing season possibly yielding tomatoes through November.

The basil is now located nearer the door and is easier to harvest.

Come by the greenhouse and snip some basil it just keeps it healthy and bushy!

 

Our Stocky Red Roaster Pepper Plants are HUGE! They are blossoming now and I hope to see peppers forming soon. I have seen bees inside the greenhouse but some hand pollination would help.