- Climber beans on sunflower stalks
- Low-land garden at The Bellevue Hospital
- Sunflowers
July 31, 2019
Progress is slow with fruiting this year probably because of all of the rain earlier in the season. Our garden demo box is producing beautiful tomatoes but unfortunately the cabbages and broccoli are not doing so well. I’m not sure if it’s the soil type or the shading. Next week, we will be spreading some mulch in the garden. Thank you to The City of Bellevue for providing the mulch for us to use. It will be spread on the low lands to keep down the weeds and help with moisture retention.
I’ve gotten a lot of nice comments about the sunflowers this year. Some of our climber beans have attched and started climbing up our sunflowers.
A big thank you to Bob Beck for keeping the lowlands tilled and the weeds down, and Cat Valero for keeping the weeds down around the boxes. They have never looked so good!
This week I also plan to plant for the fall garden. We will be planting lettuce and radishes for fall salads.
If anyone is interested in volunteering their time in the gardens, please contact me at 419.484.5421.
Patti Keller, RD, LD, CDE