Edamame harvest! Gardeners pulled edamame bushes, stripped them, and divided the pods into shares to take home and eat. Some plants remain in the garden, where the pods’ contents will mature and dry into seeds for next season’s crop. Each bush’s root area was clipped off and left behind to feed the soil with rhizobacter, or beneficial bacteria.
Gardeners pull whole edamame bushes from the ground. Edamame is legume that grows on bushes. The plants stay put rather than vining.
Gardeners clip the roots off each edamame bush to scatter in the garden. Why? See the next photo.
The garden’s edamame team leader shows the nodule-filled roots of the plant. Those nodules are rhizobacter, or beneficial bacteria, that feed the soil. This fixes nitrogen in beds where heavy feeders (think brassica, such as kale) have been or will be planted.
Gardeners strip the edamame pod off the plants. They divide the pods into shares for gardeners to take home and eat. At right, sweet Luna provides good company.
Some edamame bushes plants remain in the garden. The pods’ contents will mature and dry into seeds. We’ll plant them next year, seeding next season’s crop.
There’s so much to eat in the garden in this time of year. Every work party includes harvesting.
Most (but not all) of the garden’s potatoes were harvested a couple of weeks ago. Once the main potato beds were planted, gardeners tucked the additional seeds wherever there was room, including shadier beds. Those slower-growing, smaller potatoes are here, and they are delicious.
The garden’s flower crop is glorious! Flower Power team starts flower seedlings (thank you, Flower Lady!), prepares beds, plants seeds and seedlings in the earth, tends the flowers as they grow, and creates stunning bouquets for gardeners to take home.
Treasures gardeners take home.
