Work Share Day coming up Saturday

There will be a work share day at SSCG this Saturday, March 26th from 9am to 1pm.  Come out to meet your gardening neighbors and get some important community work done!

Please remember that if you have children, it would be a good idea to bring a snack and a drink for them.  (And you might want to bring something for yourself, too!)

There will be free chive, oregano, sage and St. Johnswort plants for anyone who wants them.  The early birds get the plants!

Kristen
(via VP)

Thank you Volunteers!

Some good work was done on Wednesday and nobody had to shovel manure!

The first phase of getting the paths set around the compost pile was started by ripping up the jungle around the bins.  We need weed barrier set down and lots of mulch set on top, at least two inches.  That work would be good for anyone who is looking for something to do to get their hours in.  Also, the east side community garden areas all desperately need weeding, and in many cases mulching.

This was the last mid-week workshare day as I am going out of town and then my children start school.  Thanks for the fun and the work!

Alpaca Manure in the Rain

Has everyone noticed the alpaca manure - mild and composted.  The compost bins on both sides have some and we can get more on a regular basis.  Thanks to Paul Weiss for connecting us and Adam Kemna for the heavy grunt work.  A little rain doesn't stop this volunteer!

This is a volunteer day from a couple of weeks ago. We got both of these areas all clean -- let's go keep them clean!

The girl scout troop put down a bunch of mulch by the front gate. Good job, girls! Now we can mulch the rest of the paths and around all the trees.

Compost

There is quite a bit of compost/stuff in front of the garden! It looks and smells good, but I don't know anything about it! I'll assuming its Second Start's to use, so we should get it off the street and into our plots as fast as possible. Everyone take a wheelbarrow load or two. And we have some compost, thanks to Katie Martin. She and her children have been building and turning the compost piles diligently. Please do your part and add vegetable matter from your gardens, leftovers from the kitchen (no meat or fat), no bindweed or other seedy weeds but young innocent weeds like sunflowers and dandelions and tops of comfrey are OK. And Adam, Joy, and Paul have collaborated to bring us some manure. They are set to bring more this weekend (I think) and will need some strong bodies to transport it into the compost bins East and West.

Another Wednesday Volunteer Day

This Wednesday we had another great work-share day. The weeds are just taking over the whole garden - but we made a bit of a dent. This is mostly chickweed blanketing the pergola garden, quite enough to make a dozen chickens very happy. This stuff is edible by humans as well and high in Omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin C. There is quite a bit here and more weeds in the Herb Garden -- a good project for independent work, too.

Here is the new compost bin the volunteers made this spring. It looks good, doesn't it? We even got some Alpaca manure in it, thanks to Adam and Paul.

Volunteer Opportunity this Wednesday

This Wednesday will be another chance to hang out with other gardeners and get some work done to take care of our beautiful space. We need a bunch of people willing to rake and shovel mulch to fix some of our shared paths. I'll be there 6 pm until dark to answer questions and head you in the right direction.