Garden Party, 6/28/26, on a sweltering Sunday morning

I walked around with my phone for pics and talked a bit with each of the four people working in the garden yesterday morning at our regular Work Party, despite that humidity was (and still is) extremely high with temps promising to climb even further during the week.

Here’s Marcella, weeding the garlic, because Elisha said they were going to be harvested next Sunday, and it would be easier, if that garden had been weeded.

Meanwhile, this Sunday the onions were harvested. Wow. PLENTY. And stored in the dark back room of the greenhouse.

Note to GAV inhabitants, neighbors and friends: PLEASE DON’T BUY ONIONS!

Then there’s the cabbages. Harvested four this time. And still some out there. More saurkraut parties to come?

Dave was busy hauling away compostable materials from weeding and harvesting.

He was also cutting one of the trees back a bit, so that part of garden will get more sun.

I found Elisha standing in front of the garage at 2015 E. DeKist.

I moved closer, and there was Ben Hur! I wondered what his T-shirt would say this time. From a 2024 Family Reunion!

The two of them had just taken down a used garden box, that neighbor Devin had given us a few weeks ago, and then unfortunately, it fell apart. So, what to do with the rotting wood?

It will join the new already growing pile of stuff that needs to be offloaded. Important especially now, that we’ve decided we WILL make a sitting area in front of the old Maple where the junk has always accumulated.

Peppers and basil, which had been planted in the wooden box, were transferred to pots in that same place outside the garden fence. Marcella arranged the pots nicely.

I wondered what this plant was . . .

Celeriac! (Not celery but in the same family.)

Marcella then showed me the borage growing nearby in the garden nearby… said (Carissa — who lives across the street) had brought it over and planted it.