About a year ago I let a neighbor grow some kale and eggplant in Cindy's raised beds. See The Gardener Is Gone.... He got busy with other things and didn't have much time to attend to the veggies he had planted, but they continued to grow.
That left several of the raised veggie beds vacant, so when the family next door found that their own vegetable bed was being raided by voracious raccoons, I invited them to plant their veggies in Cindy's beds. The drip irrigation was all in place, the soil she had filled them with was waiting, and her security system of anti-varmint panels was ready for action.
So they came over with their kids, Maggie and Jude, and planted veggies, sowing seeds of carrots, beets and corn, and waited for them to germinate. Then they added some broccoli and cauliflower plants that were a little further along, and those have been thriving ever since.
And now another neighborhood family has joined us and has planted their veggies, too, so on Saturday we all had a Ladybug Release Party, turning hundreds of Ladybugs free to feast on the aphids and other pests that were eating the plants.
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| Neighbors Tending The Garden |
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| Kids Are Learning Gardening |
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| Release More Ladybugs |
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| Ladybug Ready for Release |
It's been fun for me to look out into the garden and see it being productive and full of life, both vegetable and human, again. And I know Cindy would approve that her garden space is helping educate and encourage a new generation of gardeners.
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