Here's a report from Betsy:
We dug up the garden this past Sunday! The soil is beautiful. Compost will appear this week and we will start planting next Sunday April 19th. Bring your shovel and garden rake if you have one. Maybe the kids would like to bring their dump trucks to help move compost. Heidi and Deet will be picking up the compost.
We will plant lettuce, peas, potatoes, radishes, carrots, cabbage, brussel sprouts, beets, and broccoli. If you have any of those plants started please bring them to the garden on Sunday. Also, any plants that are getting planted on Sunday should be "hardened off" or taken outside for several hours for a few days before Sunday.
We still have money in treasury but if you haven't coughed up your $10.00 please bring it by.
Our next big decision will be water - Be on the look out for a free food grade 40-50 gallon barrel that we could make into a rain barrel. We may have to buy one - Eric has some great ideas. We'd like to do it on the cheap if possible. In the meantime we'll use the Moss and Fortuna water supply (and pray for rain)! The city says there are sprinklers on that property and they will find out in a couple of weeks if they can be turned on! Wouldn't that be cool?
Also since the last post we have the following new members: Ron and Jane and Gabe, Anida and Luan, and Joe and Meghan Parent and their brood. Others have expressed interest and will probably join in.
Our first garden rule: Don't walk on the beds! Do walk on the Grass.
See you Sunday!
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ReplyDeleteQuinn missed coming out last sunday when we "discovered" developing seedlings on lettuce adn radishes so I took her for a walk Monday to she her the progress. I can't even tell you how much fun it was to see her excitement at spotting the little leaves coming up. She also "found" new pea seedlings and had herself convinced that potatoes are blooming, too. At this point she was so excited that every stray blade of grass or weed MUST be a developing plant. What fun! When we returned to work Wednesday she dedicated herself to eating a good dinner just so she could get the green light to come on out. Once Tadhg saw her enthusiasm he gobbled up dinner as well. This, my friends, is not a task taken lightly :) So it was great to watch the two of them have fun and be so ethusiastic about our gardening adventures.
This is really cool. I love getting to know the kids in the garden!
ReplyDelete---Betsy