June 21, 2008

Today we had the stringing party for the bean rows down at the lovely Sumner Community Gardens. As you can see, the beans are planted at the base of small trenches along which Don has run lengths of PVC pipe which he has drilled with a 7/8 inch hole every 8 inches or so. Don says this is so we "Water the beans and not the weeds."

Sometime during the past week Don (The Man) has finished running the wires from the concrete posts at one end of the rows to the posts at the other end. The job of the 6 people helpful enough to show up this morning was to finish running the twine up and down from the bottom wire to the top wire and back down again, over and over and over and over and over until the bean plants have plenty of surface to cling to as they climb toward the sun and produce all those wonderful green beans for us to eat. Whenthe rows are strung it should look something like this:

Oh, hey, it does look something like that. Good for us.

Over in Plot #48, also known as Tomato Land things are looking up. The 'mater are growing,

and blossoms are blooming. Soon we should see some tomatoes.

--It's Fosco, Dammit!