Houston Community Garden

Joan Redig walked away with the top honor of "Besto of Pesto Festo" with her Genovese Basil Pesto, while Laura Vanderlei was awarded 2nd place for her chive pesto, and Irish Britson earned 3rd place with spinach basil pesto. As a side note, upon a recount afterward, it was discovered that Brenda Grupe's Mango Parsley Pesto also earned a 2nd place finish and was overlooked.  Sorry Brenda!  Your "Besto" award is "in the mail!"

 After all was said and done the garden received $196.25 in donations.  Money will be used to support the garden, hopefully to go towards a permanent water solution some point in the future.

Meanwhile, at the garden, WE ARE HOT! Who would have thought we'd be wishing for rain, but we are!  Thanks go out to Rich Carr and Steve Skifton, who filled up our tank last week.  Hopefully we won't be asking you to do again too soon.

Peas have been prolific, but are finishing up, especially in the heat.  I expect that we'll be very soon picking cucumbers and zucchini, tomatoes (from the silvery tomato plants in the small boxes), and beets, kohlrabi. Potatoes shouldn't be too far away, either. I harvested the garlic Sunday evening and it is currently hanging in my garage to cure for a few weeks.    Everything is growing beautifully, and I just so enjoy seeing what all the boxes are producing. 

But we must water. regularly.  Please help out in this regard as you can!

Thursday is supposed to be hot hot so I plan to get out there by 5:30 am to harvest and water for the food shelf so I can avoid the heat of the day at 2 pm.  Join me if you want!

I'll send out winning pesto recipes in a later email, if you are interested.

Thanks everyone and stay cool!

Audrey