The board meeting scheduled for May 23 will be postponed to Saturday May 30, 11:30, at the garden!!!!
Workday, Wed. 5/6
Debbie’s relatives in the Midwest sent her milkweed seeds for our garden. The mothers and children distributed them behind the trees on the north side and along the fence by the road. Patricia C. with help from kids set up a potted weed garden to show what needs to be pulled from the beds. A few of the “weeds” are edible such as dill but are not growing in the best place, I helped with signage. Steve and Linda worked on the fence around the big tomato plot. Deb and Della planted okra around the fence of the shed plot, Geri and kids planted tomatoes in a spare earth box. Suzanne, Kathy and several others weeded.
Workday, Sat. 5/9
Kathie and Patricia G. pulled the last of the lettuce from the greenhouse bed, then Kathy stabilized the sides of the s. raised bed. Bernie, Lisa, Rosie, and Deb checked the water flow in the new beds. Ingrid was water master. Lisa and Bernie planted corn in the plot by the bulletin board. Steve loaded up more scrap fencing. A wind storm came up suddenly and we decided to leave the garden early. I saw a white cotton bag of Deb’s blow past and then it disappeared. Look for it tomorrow! It contained milkweed seeds.
What we need to do Wed. 5/13 and Sat. 5/16
(Both Steve and I will be absent from the garden the next few working days. I will be back the 20th. and Steve will be back the 23rd.)
We need to prepare a second corn patch. We stagger the planting of 3 plots 2-3 weeks apart so that all the corn isn’t ripe at once. If Geri has herbs from her garden we can plant the north raised bed. I have ordered plastic mulch to try on one of the beds for weed control. The south raised bed needs to be amended with 2 buckets each of compost and seed starter stored under the blue tarps. Prepare places to plant beans where there are fences for them to climb. Someone can help children make teepees for beans. Tomatoes might go well in the cover crops. They can be planted without turning the plots and then caged. This is another experiment in no-till planting. Harvest the good spinach and radishes we planted in early spring. The plot nearest the horses behind the GH needs to be checked, weeded, and possibly replanted. The plot map and seed packets were found on the ground and I rescued them. I have them in my bag.
