Yeah it's fine; the plants were all planted by the 1st-5th graders before school ended. Then we try to nurse the stuff along all summer so when they come back in the fall they can see the results. It's hard to get people to volunteer to go water so it usually ends up being just me and sometimes I get delayed going there.

But people help themselves to stuff all the time. There gets to be SO many tomatoes, the stuff is just falling all over the place and rotting, so I wish people would take more of those. But on the other hand, sometimes we manage to get something harder, like a cantaloupe, watermelon, pumpkin, etc. and right when those are getting nice, somebody takes it. That part is annoying. Once we even put little tags on the stems of the couple melons saying "please don't pick me, I'm being used for teaching" or something like that and somebody actually removed the tags, wrapped them around something else and took the fruits.

So far this year we have one nice watermelon, but that one is on the ground closest to the street, so I'm not confident that one will last. The pumpkin plants look healthy so I expect we'll get a few of those too. The kale went berserk, so I just took a big garbage bag of kale to Food Gatherers the other day.