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Look at that Turnip! Click on any photo to enlarge |

Some Junior Master Gardener kids and friends worked like crazy to pick 87 pounds of produce today! The volunteers at Valley Outreach were so pleased to see the variety of fruits and vegetables harvested! Raspberries, beets, zucchini,
yellow squash, cucumber, kale, pok choi, peppers, broccoli, basil, cabbage and TURNIPS!
I think kids particularly love to pull large root veggies out of the ground due to the surprise factor! Grab by the base of the vegetation and firmly wiggle, wiggle, wiggle and up it comes!

We discovered that two of the naughty garden pests have moved in! Looks like we will have containers of soapy water available for those who aren’t squirmy about bug-picking.
The Japanese Beetles have

emerged from the ground and love to attack the edamame and raspberries while the Cabbage Worms bury themselves deep in the base leaves of the cabbage heads. The
joys of gardening!
--Kathy Luoma, Washington County Master Gardener