Pallet Garden
Rosa enjoyed visiting the new pallet garden at the Easton Area Community Center. The old pallet was filled with dirt and then planted with herbs and marigolds. It is a great use of verdical space.
Rosa loves basil, basil with tomatoes, basil with zucchini, basil with summer squash, basil with beans. Rosa likes to chop up fresh basil and add it to a dish of sauteed garden vegetables. YUM!!
Last night Rosa visited the garden on the 800 block of Walnut Street, and look what she found there!!
Rosa loves parsley. It tastes so green and sweet.
Parsley is widely used as a companion plant in gardens. Like many other members of the carrot family (umbellifers), it attracts predatory insects, including wasps and predatory flies to gardens, which then tend to protect plants nearby. For example, they are especially useful for protecting tomato plants as the wasps that kill tomato hornworms also eat nectar from parsley. It offers protection even in its first year as the strong scent of the parsley leaves appear to mingle with the tomato scent and confuses the tomato moth. Parsley is high in vitamins A, B, and C.
(From Wikipiedia)
Recently, Rosa was able to visit with Judie Dickerson from the Cops N' Kids Reading Room in Easton. Ms. Dickerson came out to the Urban Farm and read garden stories to the kids from Spring Garden Day Care. Rosa had lots of fun visiting and enjoyed the stories. The kids enjoyed the stories too and they each were allowed to take a book home with them to keep!
The Cops N' Kids Reading Room is located at the Easton Area Community Center located at 901 Washington Street. Access to the Reading Room is around back on South 9th.
The Reading Room is open on Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on First and Third Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to Noon
Bring your child to relax in a cozy comfortable setting, choose books to read and a book to own.
Spring Garden Day Care has a garden plot at the Easton Urban Farm and Community Garden. Twice a week during the summer students come with their teacher to tend their plot and learn about gardening. The kids have also been helping around the farm, weeding, composting, planting, and hoeing up the potatoes. On Monday, Rosa visited the Urban Farm and made some new friends.
Kids from Spring Garden Day Care visited the Medicinal Herb Garden on Thursday to create art from nature with Miss Cathy from School of Natural Learning.
Rosa visited the raised beds at the Bushkill House and got to hangout with Reda. The Bushkill House provides housing for senior and disabled citizens. The Tennant Association has a garden for residents and Reda is one of the gardeners.