Author: Shirley Bohm

Spring has sprung and summer is coming fast.  Most of our spring crops are done and replaced with warm weather vegetables.  We pulled out or finished broccoli, collards, radishes, sugar snap peas and potatoes.  Currently we’re picking carrots, swiss chard, romaine, kohlrabis, turnips, beets, onions, garlic, bell peppers, jalapenos, parsley and zucchini.  Sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, bush beans, pole beans, basil and butternut squash are growing.  Blackberries have started along the fence and the bushes are loaded.  The few blueberries that survived the freezes this spring are starting to turn color.  I’d be interested in hearing what everyone else is growing. We’ve had some real successes with our workdays.  Brad arranged for 6 Gwinnett volunteers to come out on a workday and were they hard workers!  We also had a boy scout troop come out.  We arranged a cucumber planting project for them to take home but they…