Community Garden Update: Harvest Time!

The Harvest Begins

Summer's end was marked by the picking of the remaining fruits and vegetables. We thought of those who had already passed: the green beans that now lived in big glass jars in the pantry, the spinach of early summer, the carrots that made for refreshing snacks on those sweltering days in July. Soon, they would be joined by the rest of the garden growths.

Now it was time for the potatoes to be uprooted, for the remaining squash to be snapped from the vine, for the onions to at last begin to cure, for the thirty-seven pumpkins to do the same.

Harvesting potatoes is a special kind of fun in itself, especially when the spuds are bigger than your hands and require muscle to dislodge from the soil.

Delicious Red Pontiac Potatoes

Once all the food was harvested from the garden, the time had come for cleaning up the garden.

I'll tell you all about that in the next installment of this series.