Southern Blight in the Garden
Sadly, we recently discovered southern blight on some of the tomatoes and peppers in our Community Kitchen Garden. Since our mission is education, we wanted to take this opportunity to talk […]
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Summer is for Tomatoes
Tomatoes are a favorite summer vegetable for many, and for good reason. There is nothing like a sweet juicy tomato fresh off the vine in the middle of July! Tomatoes […]
Volunteer’s Bountiful Harvest
This week Genworth Financial sent another great group of volunteers to work in the Community Kitchen Garden. The volunteers helped harvest 159 lbs. of fresh vegetables to take to Feedmore’s Community Kitchen, […]
A Rainbow of Nutrients
Lewis Ginter Botanidal Garden is usually a pretty colorful place, but in the Community Kitchen Garden those colors equate to a wide variety of nutrients! Red vegetables like tomatoes and […]
Watch Where You Pick! This Garden's Growing More Than Tomatoes!
Text & Photo by Elizabeth Sonifrank, Community Kitchen Garden Research Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Look what we found in the Community Kitchen Garden tomato plants: A house finch […]
What Does 80,000 Cherry Tomatoes Look Like?
Text & photos by Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden 80,000 cherry tomatoes? That’s no hyperbole. Well, it’s only minimal hyperbole, because 79,800 is the actual […]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
By Elizabeth Sonifrank, Community Kitchen Garden Research Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We are now starting into our third month of harvesting here at the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. […]
Handiwork
Text & photos by Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When you have 42 cherry tomato plants it takes a lot of hands, and often, to […]
Ta Ta & Toodle-oo Tomatoes
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator There’s something incongruous about a chilly 50 degree, gray, wet day and the warm color […]
You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Catfacing and other deformities in tomatoes are a visual turnoff for most people. The reality […]