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By Lyle Hillyard
Senator, District 25

This has been a glorious gardening year. The frost we normally get in Cache Valley on the second week of September did not come. We did cover our raspberries and cantaloupes last week when it was predicted that we would have a freeze but it only got down to 34 degrees. I am still picking beans, raspberries and corn. The cabbages (both green and red) are doing very well. The big work will come in about two weeks when we will spread about one ton of compost on the garden and plow all under except the carrots that we will cover with leaves to dig up in the winter when they have become very sweet. It has been fun to invite students who are living by us to come with their small children and learn where potatoes, carrots and apples come.

If anyone wants to come to Logan in the next several weeks, we need help picking and washing the apples. We will even give you a gallon or two of freshly pressed apple juice! The Red Delicious really makes good juice.

3 Comments:

 keldwud said...

I have responded to your request for volunteers via email. I will follow up with a phone call later this evening and once more Saturday afternoon.

- Ramsey

10/02/2009 4:42 PM  

 Senator Lyle Hillyard said...

Unfortunately, with two nights of bad frost, my garden is done.

Volunteers now will be getting everything cleaned up and ready for the snow. That's not a lot of fun...

-Senator Hillyard

10/02/2009 5:07 PM  

 The Senate Site said...

This - The Great Frost Disappointment of 2009 - might be my fault.... Senator Hillyard sent this post on Sunday afternoon, but I thought it would make a nice Friday blog and waited until then to publish. Didn't know Mother Nature had cold-hearted plans up her sleeve that would shorten the apple harvest. Sorry Keldwud!

RC

10/05/2009 4:00 PM  

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