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Question: What's weirder than those little mushrooms that look like cups under this summer squash? (don't worry, they don't harm the plant)
Answer: the fact that one squash plant is producing ORANGE summer squash!!! We didn't buy any orange summer squash variety! I didn't even know they existed...
In other news...
Why helloooooo Mr. Watermelon! You're looking rather dashing this morning. Mr. Weed, we did not notice you before the present moment, but you are soon to be uprooted. (Annie and Brittany have also taken to speaking in fake English accents in the garden when no one is around.... Which is all the time. Hopefully we'll relearn how to function in a social setting once school starts up again).
Most shell beans are at the "snap pea" stage right now...but some are filling out nicely! We'll wait for these to dry out on the stem, and then pick them and remove the husk so they can be cooked like any other dry bean.
A six-plot shot! The garden is glorious!
...with some garden casualties. :(
Winter squash! We will harvest you this week. Once your skin is dull colored, and resists bruising from a thumbnail, that is ;)
We have beautiful sunflowers :) and a lot of them, too! Today we brought some as a gift to our friends at Dining Services as we dropped off the basil.
Some are beginning to wilt...but most are still looking great! Last week we took some sunflowers to Lynn Pasquerella (our new President!) with a "save the date!" invitation to the fall harvest festival, which will be on September 22nd. When we got to the office, the secretary told us she was in Kenya! Crazy! Probably saving the world or something, as MHC alumnae tend to do.
The pumpkins begin to orange (very slightly) as white appears on their leaves--will Team Pumpkin Patch beat out Team Powdery mildew? Hopefully our new milk-water concoction will help them win the battle. Sounds weird, but that's what's recommended for this disease! One downside is that Annie now complains, even after many days and rains, about smelling like milk every time she exits the pumpkin patch. It's prbably psychological, but who knows.
As for the corn... tassels are touching the sky! We had some visitors to the garden last week who were flabbergasted by the height of these things. Maybe it's because it's drying corn instead of sweet corn? All I know is that our corn is now, for the first time, larger than those of the corn fields we pass on the road :) So much corn pride!!!
Well, more photos may be added to this post at some point, but sometimes computers are slow, and sometimes student garden interns are impatient.
Until next time!
Peace, love, and veggies,
Annie and Brittany
MHC Student Garden Interns
PS-This weekend the summer interns funded by the Center for the Environment went to the annual NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) summer conference. It was off the chain! Update on that coming soon.
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