SUNDRE – A variety of vegetables growing in raised planters at the Sundre Community Garden seem to be thriving amid late summer conditions that have brought on warm temperatures into the fall.
And some local greenthumbs who rent plots at the community garden fully intend to make the most of the late summer that is expected to last a while yet.
“I’m not going to pick them right away,” said Melba Caldwell, who lives in town and rents out two raised planters for personal use as well as another two whose harvests help out the McDougal Chapel’s Plus 1 Emergency Food Hamper program.
Caldwell was among a group of Sundre Community Garden green thumbs who gathered to socialize on the sunny afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 26 that came following overnight rainfall and a cloudy morning.
This has been her third season at the garden, and Caldwell expressed no hurry to harvest her crops, which included some thriving carrots, beats, climbing beans and spinach that she regularly pulls leaves from throughout the season.
The Sundre Community Garden first opened in 2015 and since then has consistently continued to rent out either all or nearly all of the 28 raised planters that are available to anyone in the community.
