North Marietta Neighborhood Community Garden

One of two buckets of worm poop and associated worm goodies harvested yesterday, four months of production by the team. I worked it into the community garden soil and expect that the worm offspring that came along in the bucket will take off on their own. while the adult worms are enjoying their new peat moss and compost bedding.

Time to separate the worms from the worm farm soil, put the worms back in some new peat moss for the winter, and move the rich old soil to the community garden to nourish the next crops. Some of those little white worm eggs are bound to end up as community garden worms, too.

This is a piece of our current crop of Mirai corn, a Japanese hybrid, seeds the gift of Dr. Bob, a Cobb Master Gardener Intern who volunteers at NMNCG and lives nearby. It is reputed to be the sweetest corn in the world and Dr. Bob made me and my "corn farmer" partner, Steve, promise to eat the first ear raw so that we could experience the sugars immediately after picking and before they started turning to starch. It was a startlingly wonderful experience, but roasting it with butter, salt and pepper is hard to beat, too.

A sure sign that God loves our North Marietta Neighborhood Community Garden! Thanks, Tessa, for the fine photo.

Community Garden life is good when you can make a BLT with a single tomato slice! What an amazing year for tomatoes.