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Category Archives: Summer 2009
Late Blight-Beware!!
Hey everyone,
Please check out these websites for more information on this disease that could be effecting your tomatoes and potatoes. Please watch your plants carefully, as this could easily spread around to other plots!
Here’s a couple websites with more information on the disease and what to do if you find it…
From the Morning Call: Penn State Master Gardeners Late Blight
“We’ve mentioned in recent blogs that late blight, a very serious disease of your tomatoes and potatoes, is hitting really early this year. Many home gardeners may be wondering what they can and should be doing. Here are some suggestions. Most of this material is from a 2004 fact sheet by A. A. McNab”
Picture and information from Morning Call.
Penn State Website: Serious Disease Threatens Home Gardens, Commercial Fields
Food, Inc.
Hey everybody, check out this new documentary currently in theaters called Food, Inc.
Here’s the review:
Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, “Food, Inc.,” an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy. You’ll shudder, shake and just possibly lose your genetically modified lunch. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Unfortunately it’s not in theaters too close to Easton, but it’ll be playing at the Pocono Community Theater on July 24th. Check out the website for more info!
If you get a chance to see it, please comment here about your thoughts!
Wildlife at the Garden!
We’ve had a lot of cool wildlife spottings at the garden including an Indigo Bunting, vultures, and lots more. Let me know if you see something cool, I’m keeping a list. (Or if you could snap a picture, that’d be great too!) Also, I’ll be working on updating the website over the next couple months to include a section on wildlife.
We’ve got a resident in the bird box I put up. It’s a tree swallow. Over the summer, there’s going to be lots more blue bird houses installed by a local boy scout troop, so we’ll have even more company out there! And some organic pest control. 🙂
Photos courtesy of D. Brandes.
Water is here!
Hey everyone!
The plots are looking great and just in time for this heat wave, the water is good to go. Currently we have two taps running (one on the fence near the road and the other on the side near the hill). Yay! 🙂
There will be three more installed once we get some more piping. There will be another one on each side mentioned before and then one out in the back in the middle (there’s now a post out there with a spickit with no hose yet–you’ll see it!).
A few things to remember:
PLEASE USE SPARINGLY! It’ll go quickly, please conserve it.
The water is not potable, please don’t let the youngin’s drink it.
The water is hot from sitting in the pipes all the time, so please be cautious.
Please don’t hook up a hose, just use watering cans.
Make sure it’s turned off all the way and if you see any dripping, please let me know ASAP!
This water system is courteous of Dave Brandes and some of his students (and funded by the Clinton Foundation grant!). Thanks for your cooperation and enjoy!
Photo of one of the taps courtesy of D. Brandes.
I’m back! …and weeding!
Hey everyone,
I’m back from my interim trip so I’ll be in the garden taking care of the 1-acre (a.k.a. weeding and weeding!). If you have any questions or comments, you can direct them to me… leap@lafayette.edu.
Thanks and happy gardening! 🙂
Jenn
Farewell for a couple weeks!!
Hey all,
I’m going to be away on an interim trip (to the national parks in AZ and UT) until June 13th. I’ll be semi-reachable via email. For anything urgent please contact Dave Brandes (Brandesd@lafayette.edu) or Andy Smith (Smitham@lafayette.edu)–they’re my excel advisors for the summer.
The plots are lookin’ GREAT!! Keep up the good work! 🙂
Happy gardening,
Jenn