<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#438059;"><div>And speaking of which (produce and harvesting), now that some produce is ready to start harvesting, I need everyone to keep track of how much you're producing and harvesting.<br><br>By weight, or guesstimate of weight, and by type of produce, and/or can do a head count.<br><br>This helps us to get an idea of how much we've grown this year, which helps with funding and with keeping the program going.<br><br>Cleveland produces about $1,000,000 of produce per year from their 209 community gardens. I don't know if we'll ever match that, but we're going to have a great time trying, eh?<br><br>We're headed for some hot weather this weekend so expect your tomatoes and peppers to start ripening very quickly. I know they've been sitting on our plants, green, for a week or
two but ripening either not at all or very slowly. It's been too cool, but supposed to hit the 90's this weekend.<br><br>Other things, like zucchini, squash, Julie's Kohlrabi, ripen sooner. Something in our soil we don't grow zucchini and cucumbers well, but we have a friend on Manchester who's brought over 3-4 zucchini that must measure1' - 2' in length and perhaps 3"-4" in diameter ! We've already had several loaves of great bread! But we have tomatoes galore!!! And pumpkins!<br><br>Thanks for the great news, Julie!!!<br><br>Enjoy the harvests!!<br>Larry<br></div></div><br>
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