Update from Betsy

Okay, now we have everyone's email address!

Things are looking great in the garden! Lettuce was thinned and replanted, Arugula was harvested, corn was planted, tomatoes that didn't make it got replaced, signs were finished, grass was cut, the herb bed was weeded and trellis work was finished. Two new rain barrels were brought over and Joe Parent plans to hook them up this week.

And we had fun.

We decided to plant raspberries and roses on the outside slope of the garden. Would someone like to volunteer to be in charge of this project? We plan to do it this Sunday. We will be using Vikte's volunteer raspberries and some found roses.

We also decided to have a potluck the first Wednesday of every month. We will try to have a speaker. The first Wednesday of August is the Urban garden tour that we talked about going to as a group.

We also talked about keeping notes on things that we would like to do or grow differently next year so we can talk about them over the winter.

We talked about distribution but didn't really come to any conclusions. When there are things that need to be harvested every day we will put it on the blog so people will know to go and pick. (http://www.graytongarden.blogspot.com/) The peas will pop up in about a week and will need to be harvested daily.

We decided to have short meetings on work days when needed. More formal decision making was discussed and rejected. I requested that everyone say their "vote" without others talking and we would come to consensus on things and that would be the decision. This sort of worked but their was still a lot of talking at once.

Meg mentioned that Peggy suggested the rain barrel area be cleaned up. If she or anyone else would like to be in charge of that this Sunday, just show up.

I have information on the workshop that Patrick talked about at our potluck on Wednesday. There are other ongoing workshops in the area we could be going to if there is an interest. Just pop me an email if you want more info.

I will try to do an update like this after each work day if you all think it is helpful. See ya Sunday.


Betsy Breckels
betsybreckels@sbcglobal.net