Peas, Potluck, and more!

Peas:

Last night Clem picked a few peas and we threw them in with our stir fry - they were delicious!

We should be picking them daily at this point, so go down right before dinner and see what you can find. They are best eaten WITHIN AN HOUR of picking!!!!! If you go down and find an overabundance please let your neighbors know to go down and start picking - they will lose their sweetness if they linger too long on the vine. If we end up with more than we can eat (unlikely) they should be frozen immediately to retain their sweetness.

Look toward the bottom of the plants for the more mature peas and remember there are peas on both sides of the trellis.


July Potluck:

Potluck is two weeks from tomorrow - Wednesday July 1st. Tentative speaker is Steve, the famous Charlevoix easement gardner. He has decades of organic farming/gardening experience and will talk to us about succession gardening - which it will be just about time to do. Bring what you brought last time in terms of set up - it seemed to work out fine - we'll bring a few extra folding chairs.

Raspberries/Roses:

We still need a raspberry/Rose captain. They require certain planting, spacing, trellising and pruning care that someone needs to be on top of. I'm confident we can do it - and there's nothing better than raspberries straight from the garden - we just don't want to do it haphazardly and have it turn into a raspberry nightmare. We can certainly wait til spring (and that's probably the best time) to do this but we do have offers of plants from Vikte and Steve now (I don't know how many - we will want to plant enough that everyone will get a good amount)


Betsy Breckels
betsybreckels@gmail.com