Come join us this Saturday for the best treasure hunt in town – digging potatoes! We have four rows of potatoes and we’ll need to get them out of the ground carefully and quickly before our produce transport volunteer comes at 9:30am. (The Point Care Pantry gets our Saturday produce and they are open to our neighbors in need Saturday at 11am so we have to get harvest to them in time for them to add our veggies to their bags that go out.) A couple of pointers if you haven’t grown potatoes:

1. Dig gently and try not to spear the potatoes with any tool you might use. The skins are fragile until they’ve cured a bit so handle them gently when collecting or moving too.
2. Store any potaotes you take home in a cool, dark place. Sunlight turns potatoes green and any green tubers are toxic!
3. If any potato you dig was too close to the surface and has already turned green, separate that potato from our harvest collection.

We’ll also be harvesting some of our garlic Saturday. There won’t be as big a hurry for this because we’ll dry the garlic before we send any to the food banks. But we could use help with this, especially anyone who is a good braider! We’ll braid the garlic and make twine ties so I can hang it under the shelter at my house to dry out of the sun and rain, but with good ventilation. We’ll save some for seed garlic this fall and the rest will come back to share amongst ourselves and with the food pantries in a few weeks.

Last but not least, it’s getting HOT y’all! Beginning in June (next week) Tuesday garden hours will move to 6-8pm. It’s so much nicer later in the evening. Thursday garden workdays (also 6-8pm) will begin June 20th at the latest. We’ll send out another email if we start earlier.

Hope to see you soon!