God’s FFA (Garden Project)
Many thanks to the guys who have been helping with harvesting and cleaning the garden produce during the month of August. They have harvested buckets full of potatoes, carrots, beets, sweet corn, cucumbers, summer squash, and zucchini, as well as baskets of tomatoes, green beans, peppers, acorn squash, and eggplant.
This shows our newest and largest garden. This spring we planted it all with sweet corn, and not one seed germinated because, unknown to us, the ground had been treated with crabgrass killer. Since corn is a member of the grass family, the chemicals in the treated soil would not allow the corn seeds to germinate. Well, long story short, we found other places to plant corn and planted pumpkin and squash plants that were started with grow lights in this garden. We had no means to water this garden with a hose, so we watered each plant with gallon bottles of water. Not an ideal situation, to be certain; however, as you can hopefully see in the picture, we have some very large, healthy pumpkins that we will be able to harvest this fall
