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!!

Fighting Hunger with Fresh Veggies

Today we took a box of heirloom organic tomatoes, red peppers and herbs from the SMU Learning Garden to the Thurston County Food Bank.

A Delicious Harvest

Photo by Prof. David Suter

Happy Friday readers and garden enthusiasts.
As you know Wednesday found us in the garden harvesting the many delicious veggies our garden has produced in spite of the peculiar and antagonistic weather we have had this summer and fall. I am happy to report we were able to harvest some straggler radishes, broccoli, green beans, peas, squash, a great collection of tomatoes (ripened and green), and potatoes.

And the Saint Martin's Sustainability garden was able to donate a box of our harvested treats to the local Thurston County Food Bank, in spite of the fact a small percentage of the tastier veggies seemed to disappear somewhere between hand and buckets, which I wouldn't know anything about...

My roommates are probably happier to report that I was able to bring some of the harvest home with me.

We celebrated the garden harvest with a little breakfast for dinner: homemade quiche with the fresh potatoes, and broccoli. Yum.

Many thanks to all of you who have followed the garden's progress here on the blog, and volunteered your time,and green thumbs to keep our garden running, beautiful and bountiful.

Garden Party #4

Next Garden Party is Wed. June 30th, 3-6pm. Garden Blessing and Celebration is on Wed, July 7th 1 pm.

The garden is almost ready. The shed is built, beds are built. Beans, sunflowers and heirloom tomatoes are planted.

We will have orange, yellow, green and red tomatoes and will save seeds for our seed library!

Everyone is working hard. Planting, building a raised bed and assembling the shed.

Prof. Arwin Smalley plants beans with students Sarah and Amanda.

what happens to your feet in the garden.

Stewart finished the shed!

Everything fits in it. Even the wheelbarrow and I.