Thewhatleys's Blog – May 2009 Archive (4)

Well, things at the Bunn Sharing Garden are popping! The flowers on the tomatoes and tomatillos have made way for tomatoes hanging on the plants. We're hopeful tomatillos will soon follow.



Tomatoes hanging despite the Colorado Potato Beetles that attacked! We attacked back today with some Bonide chemicals (one of the better, hopefully less toxic ones) and hand-removal of the larva from the plants. Disappointed we couldn't find a way to stay organic... we'll have better info to be… Continue

We planted a row of turnips which, at the first rain, all washed to one side of the row.

Now we have a thick, thick patch of beautiful turnip leaves. I think we are going to harvest some of the patch to eat as greens, and then after they have been naturally "thinned" by our eating some greens, we can let them all grow into turnips to eat later. (Frankie loves turnips!)

Last Fri/Sat/Sun, we planted the two acre Bunn community Sharing Garden. Everything grown in this garden will be given away to local families and local food distribution centers. We planted some of the plants we had: tomatillos, tomatoes, and Hatch's chile peppers. We also planted seeds for radishes, turnips, beets, carrots, cucumbers, cantaloupes, peppers, beans, lima beans, peas, and more.



Yesterday (Friday), we stopped by. Basically, we babysit these two acres and go by every day!… Continue

A local news channel -- WRAL-TV -- came out to see our garden and talk about what we are doing with the Sharing Gardens -- getting more fresh local food available in the community.



We gave the reporter, Stacy Davis, the Homegrown.org website as one of our favorites and mentioned Farm Aid (which is how we found homegrown.org in the first place). So, she included a homegrown.org link on their website with the news story and some other resources! The story and link are here --… Continue