Looking Back on a Great Season

Here are a few photos Tim took over the course of this year's season.  We're looking forward to hosting the Temple Beth Am Day School 4th Graders on Friday May 18th for their Harvest Celebration!

Enjoy!

End of the Season clean up begins

At Season's End

Our Garden season is all but over, in the next few weeks we will only see limited Garden items on the salad bar. We do have plenty of flowers and we will continue to use them in the restaurant. One of our members; a young man named Bruno Luchetti has been helping me 3 days a week picking flowers and tomatoes . Bruno likes learning about Organic Gardening and has been a great asset to our Garden project.

Spring time Flowers

The Garden flowers are is in full bloom right now. Our South Florida growing season will soon be over for the summer. Take the opportunity to visit our garden and salad bar before the season ends . The South Florida growing season begins in November and ends in mid April.

This seasons MVV's

This seasons " Most Valuable Vegetables" are; Sun Gold Tomatoes, Multi Colored Carrots, and Watermelon Radishes . Laura Decker, our Director of Membership is a frequent visitor to the garden and loves to pick tomatoes ! Next year we will plant these favorites along with some future "MVV's".

Spring means Butterflies

This weekend our clocks "Spring Forward" and with the 80 degree temp's it's definitely Spring time. Our Vegetable Garden is showing stress from the hot, dry and humid weather. However Spring also means Butterflies ! Today I noticed 8 Monarch Butterflies a few Painted Lady's and 2 Black Swallowtail's. Also if you look closely you can see Monarch Butterfly caterpillar's all over the Southern Milk weed.

Watermelon Radishes spice up the salad bar

This week the Watermelon Radishes spiced up the salad .

Our Pineapples have "spiked "

15 months ago Mrs. Kollers 4th grade class from Temple Beth Am planted 16 Pineapple plants in our Garden area. This week I noticed that 2 of the plants have "spiked", I use the term "spiked' because a Pineapple is a Bromeliad, and a Bromeliad begins to produce a flower when is senses winter is over and spring is beginning. The flowers located in the center of the plant will produce approximately a 3 lb fruit in early June. I must say I was very excited to share the news with our members, I marked the 2 flowering plants with pink ribbons for easy Identification. So next time you pass by our garden check on the progress .