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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Bountiful beauty in the youth garden

 The community nursery seedlings are coming along well!
 Chive seeds were collected last week with various volunteer youth garden sessions.
 The calendula is as plentiful and radiant as ever.
 Beans were rattling and snappy in their pods!
 While the scarlet runners need more time to dry..
 The small pale-green lemon cucumber are delicious and have been enjoyed by many volunteer youth. We have also marked the enormous softball sized ones and will wait to harvest their seeds.
 Buckwheat and white clover is coming up nicely to cover the bare garlic beds.
 And the bees are loving the Borage...
 the sunflowers...
 and the artichoke.
 Though it appears to be wild and unruly, these beds produce seeds for the Urban Seeds Project.
Seen here is the towering parsnip, whose umbels reach to the sky brimming with delicate oval seeds.

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