One year ago, we planted our first seeds

 

 "Be joyful in God, all you lands; sing the glory of his name; sing the glory of his praise.
"Say to God, 'How awesome are your deeds! All the earth bows down before you, sings to you, sings out your Name.'" --Ps. 66:1-3

We have much to celebrate this week.  It was just about a year ago that we made our first plantings at Koinonia Garden.  Much has transpired in the past year, and God has blessed us richly in this endeavor. Countless volunteer hours and gifts have already been contributed to Koinonia before we picked our first greens last fall.  It came about by faith, love, and hard work combined.

We are thankful that our garden shed is nearly complete. It looks great!
At this time we have an overabundance of produce including peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and even sweet corn that we didn't have a year ago.  We have so much harvest now and work to do, that we could actually use some help.  So if you've been away or haven't had time to get out to the garden recently, your help would be greatly appreciated.
As you can see from the picture above, we did have some storm damage to the sweet corn this week, that we had to attend to, and we also picked sweet corn from the downed plants that was ready.
We have shared much produce to the pantry at Evergreen and the Benevolence at Christ Church.
This month we will begin planting some crops for the fall season.
We welcome you to join us and look forward to seeing you soon at the garden.
-- D

Pruning, planting and summer tomatoes

Recently the garden has been blessed with timely rains, and our crops are responding with rapid growth.

We've been pruning and supporting our lanky tomato vines every week, and today we harvested the first of the regular tomatoes.  Cherry tomatoes have been ripening for a couple of weeks now.  We're trying to control fungus by cutting off lower branches that touch the ground.  It seems every time we come back there are more branches in need of cutting.  Behind the lower branches is where we've discovered ripening tomatoes we couldn't see from other angles. Our efforts are bearing fruit.

The first planting of sweet corn is now higher than our knees, and the second and third plantings are coming along.  The first beans are up, and more will be added once the ground dries a bit.  Cucumbers are growing, okra is just starting to come up.