Girl Scouts, Excel, and more volunteers!

We had a lot of volunteers in the garden today!  (Which is good because the weeds are growing with all the rain we've  had!)  The 5th grade Girl Scout troop from Brighton came in a harvested strawberries and then helped me weed a row of beans.  They are such a great group of girls (and one brother) that happily help out where ever I need it. 

The Girl Scouts have even taken on a couple of side jobs, and are helping to collect produce containers and make sit-a-pons for use in the garden.  These cute little items will help keep volunteers dry and clean when they sit down to weed, or harvest.  And the handle is oh so handy too!  I'm rather excited to have these for the volunteers to use!

I had another volunteer put in stakes for the peppers and eggplants, finally.  You can see in this photo how bad our weed problem is this year.  This rain is killing me!!  This row is adopted, but every day the group is scheduled to come in it has been raining.  We're weeding it for them now!

Today we got a good jump on the beans, weeding the fist 50' of both rows.  Both these rows are adopted, but the rain has prevented folks from coming out.  Yes, its been wet this past week!

I also helped the Excel group plant up the row they are growing.  They have tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, sunflowers, cucumbers, purple pole beans, radishes, and beets.  And they are very excited to watch everything grow!

The peas have started to flower, and I should be able to harvest some next week. 

Another volunteer and I put up the stakes for the pole beans.  This row is adopted by the Sunrise Rotary.  We started making the trellis today, but ran out of time before we could finish the job.

Here is the pumpkin rows I worked on earlier in the week.  I need to pull the weeds in two more rows, but the walkways are all tilled up.

Finally, some of the flower seeds we planted last week have started to come up.  You can see a few of them below the sign - those leggy looking things will soon be colorful flowers.  More flowers for the bees to enjoy and for the volunteers to enjoy as well.