Huge Harvest!

Hey guys!

We just had a huge harvest here at the garden- 20 pounds of tomatoes, 10 pounds of lettuce, and over 16 pound of onion, just to name a few things. We donated all of it to McAuley House, a group that provides meals to the homeless.

Everything in the Garden is looking great, although some plants are coming to an end. We've got no more blueberries, unfortunately, and the yellow zucchini seem just about done. But on the other hand, the tomatoes are just starting to fruit, as well as the eggplant.






Your Garden Managers,
Andrew and Lolly

BFP

Hello!
Some of you may be aware, but there is a small school across the street from the student garden called Brown Fox Point. They have students ranging from ages ages 3-6. Over the summer, Andrew and I have been giving interactive lessons about soil, seeds, and plants. Some students came over to the garden last week to harvest tomatoes and cucumbers, identify what's growing, and to learn about different male and female flowers (yes, they exist).



We're slowly getting the garden ready for everyone's return in a couple of weeks. There is still plenty to weed...

We look forward to seeing everyone back on campus. We'll announce the first workday of the semester shortly. Hope to see you there!

Until then, take care

your garden managers,
Lolly + Andrew

Harvest Galore

Hello everyone!
It's incredible how time flies. It feels like days ago that Andrew and I were starting seedlings in the greenhouse, and now the garden is producing pounds and pounds of harvest each day. Currently, tomatoes and cucumbers are our main crops. We've already harvested over 20 pounds of assorted cherry tomatoes. They are delicious on salads, pesto pasta, or straight off the vine.




Our cucumber plants have sprawled everywhere! Originally planted on a 2 feet wide bed (without trellising--probably a mistake on our part..) the cucumbers have sprawled over onto an adjacent bed. They've produced so much fruit in the last couple weeks--we've saved some to pickle this weekend.

Our eggplant took a while to bear fruit, but they're finally here. We began harvesting them about a week ago. We've planted Dusky Eggplant--a round bulbous type--and Little Fingers--a long slender variety. Both are delicious.

This is our broccoli. The little suckers have not emerged yet. But they're looking quite big and robust, hence the photo update.

The garden as it stands today--the vertical shoots on the second row from the right are onions, which are just about ready to be harvested.

Sunflowers on Hope Street.....


More photos coming soon.
We hope everyone is having a great summer. We're doing well in Providence, and are excited to see people back on campus and at the garden in a couple weeks.

Until then, take care.

Lolly + Andrew

Mid July Garden Update!

Hello everyone!
We apologize for the lack of update in quite some time, but here are some new photos of the garden as it stands today.

The peas are now over 6 feet tall and quite heavy--the trellises keep toppling over, and we've had to reinforce them with new bamboo! We planted peas April and we've been harvesting them consistently since June.
Golden zucchini bearing fruit.

Squash plants getting ready to flower....

Our tomato plants look beautiful. These are Cherry Roma tomatoes that should be ready to be picked within 2 weeks. There is a tomato plant fungus going around in Rhode Island (a strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine), but nothing on our plants yet! Keeping our fingers crossed...
Our first cucumber--still a little prickly, but probably ready to eat by next week.
Blueberries are our summer treat here right now--we eat them straight off the bush and they're tart and delicious!
We harvested nearly 15 pounds of carrots last week--they were enormous!

The summer has been going amazingly so far. Providence has been incredibly rainy and cloudy (June of 2009 was the dimmest June in the Northeast since 1903....) but the weather has finally picked up within the last week. Despite the wacky weather our plants look great, and our harvest is plentiful.

Most of our food goes to Amos House--a nonprofit food bank and shelter about 15 minutes from Brown campus that provides breakfast and lunch 6 times a week. We've also been eating quite a bit of the food from the garden, and it's been incredibly rewarding to harvest, cook, and eat the foods grown with our own hands--from seed to plate.

We hope everyone is having a great summer as well.


much love from our garden in Providence,
Lolly and Andrew

Harvest Day

Hey everyone!

We had a HUGE harvest yesterday. We got over 20 pounds of peas, almost 20 pounds of lettuce, and 6 and a half pounds of spinach! We donated it all to Amos House, a food bank that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner for whoever shows up.

It looks like we're not even close to done with all the peas, and we have a bunch more lettuce as well. The peppers are starting to form, and the rest of the garden is looking great too!


your garden managers,
Andrew & Lolly

What Growth!

Hey guys!

There's been a ton of Garden activity since the last post. Everything is enormous (including the weeds, until those were taken care of...).

PEAS!!! (We harvested over a pound today, and that's just the beginning)

MORE PEAS!!

EVEN MORE PEAS!

Some of those plants are 6 feet tall!

But peas aren't all that have been blooming...

The first flowers of our tomato plants! There are even some tiny, pea-sized tomatoes starting to develop.

The whole garden is growing like crazy...

(from left to right) Spinach, carrots, lettuce, lettuce, onions, and beansBasil (just sprouting) and some parsley

The garlic from last season! it's huge!

Providence is beautiful, the garden is flourishing, and the summer couldn't be better- stop by if you're in the neighborhood!

your garden managers,
Lolly & Andrew

garden photos

Hello!
As promised, here are some photos of the garden in its current state.


This is the pea trellis we set up, which will allow the peas to climb upwards as they grow.

A pea plant blooming!

Spring Lettuce Mix

Really Red Deer Tongue Lettuce

More delicious lettuce...

Garlic, which is currently about 2 feet tall and will be harvested in the fall.


We also have zucchini, strawberries, blueberries, beets, arugula and much more, so keep checking for added pictures and updates.


Also, there will be a workday tomorrow (Saturday 5/30) from 12pm-4pm so stop by to help out or to see what's growing!!!



Lolly + Andrew

update

Hello gardeners, readers, Brunonians,

Sorry we haven't updated in the last couple days.
Although we haven't been posting, a lot has been going on in the garden.

For starters, the peas plants have started to bloom!! Hopefully we'll have some delicious sugarsnap peas by mid to late June.

The zucchini plants have started to flower as well.

Little basil sprouts have come up from planting last week, more tomato plants have been transplanted, and lettuce is growing big and fast. We harvested about 3 lbs of lettuce today!

We took a bunch of pictures, but blogspot is being fickle at the moment, so we'll try to put photos up tomorrow.


Until then, peas out.


Lolly + Andrew

radish radish

We harvested radishes for the first time today!!!
We made a little salad and tossed some sliced radishes on top--it was so fresh and delicious.
mmmmm....


We also set up netting for the peas to climb as they grow. Thanks to Steph and Cecilia for helping us out with that!


If you're sticking around for Commencement or will be on campus for the summer, come check the garden out! You will see a bamboo teepee net formation for the peas, little arugula just starting to sprout, huge garlic sprouts, rows of lettuce ready to be eaten, and tons of weeds ready to be pulled.


See you at the work day tomorrow from 2-5.


your faithful garden managers,

Lolly + Andrew

The Start

Hey everybody! I guess we're a bit late on starting this blog, but the garden is in full swing! We currently have peas, tomatoes, beets, radishes, lettuce, carrots, spinach, pac choi, onions, strawberries, zucchini, sunflowers, bush beans, sunflowers, and arugula. Everything's at a different stage right now, but we've already harvested some lettuce!

We also have a bunch of seedlings going strong in the greenhouse. We've got eggplant, basil (lemon and cinnamon), cucumber, watermelon, tomatoes, peppers, and broccoli, all of which we're gonna have to transplant in the coming weeks.

We're planning on planting some more peppers and eggplant soon, as well as starting up an herb garden and planting some pole beans along the fence. We've also got to set up some netting for the peas and tomatoes to grow up.

There's plenty to do and tons of weeds to pull. It should be a good summer.