[Garden] Spanish speaker needed. Also, Jack Frost paid us a visit.

[Ian Wormsbecker]

I will bring all the seed tomorrow night. Will start some bean seeds
this evening. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org 
> [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of gcmichal
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:38 AM
> To: Jason Rochon; garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Cc: Carol Popovic
> Subject: Re: [Garden] Spanish speaker needed. Also,Jack Frost 
> paid us a visit.
> 
> Dear Jason and Gardeners,
> Cuba
> I have a good contact in Havana.  her name is Susan Hurlich, 
> and can be reached at delfines at enet.cu or at 537 833-8971  
> Cuban bureaucracy can be truly Byzantine in its complexity, 
> so some lead time is desirable.  Susan is also incredibly 
> busy.  She should be able to line up a visit and contacts 
> with a community garden.  If she does do so, I suggest 
> bringing her a gift of a big bag of preserved ginger, which 
> she loves, as well as something appropriate for the community 
> garden there.  Susan would be able to provide good 
> suggestions (it could be something as basic as trowels or 
> other small garden tools, inner tubes for bicycles, or 
> baseballs for the kids - all of which are critical 
> shortages).  Perhaps we could take a group picture to send 
> along. I'd be willing to contact Susan if you wish.
> 
> Frost
> On sunday Paul and I planted the tomatoes and peppers that I 
> raised at home and had hardened off over the last two weeks.  
> The forecast  
> was lows of 4 degrees and 6 degrees for Sunday and Monday nights.   
> But when I went to water the plants this morning I found that 
> there had been frost, probably on Sunday nights.  Over two- 
> thirds of the emerging beans have been killed, about a third 
> of the pepper plants, and a good number of the tomatoes.  I 
> suggest leaving the tomatoes for a few days and seeing if 
> there is any recovery, since some appear only partially 
> damaged.  There were three varieties of peppers - there seems 
> to have been a differential response of them to the frost. I 
> think the cold air slid down from the lawn above and 
> collected in  the garden.  It is unusual for the weather 
> forecast to be so wrong.  If it had been for only two degrees 
> or "risk of frost", we would have delayed planting or covered 
> them for the night.
> 
> The beans will need replanting.  Could the person with the 
> seed put a replacement quantity of bean seeds in to soak 
> overnight for planting tomorrow? That speeds up their 
> germination by several days.  I think Ian and Candace have 
> lots of tomatoes and pepper seedlings on hand.
> 
> The mesclun is coming along well, but the plants are very 
> jammed and will quickly start suffering from crowding.  One 
> possibility is to tease apart some of the clumps of seedlings 
> and replant them an inch or so apart.
> 
> - Greg Michalenko
> On May 22, 2007, at 10:48 AM, J. Rochon wrote:
> 
> > Gardeners,
> >                 One of  my co-workers is going to Cuba later this 
> > month.
> > He asked if he could bring me back anything. I mentioned to 
> him that 
> > Cuba has an extensive community garden program. My hope is 
> to send a 
> > brief note from our community garden, and/or council, to a cuban 
> > community garden. Step one, can I get a volunteer spanish 
> translator.
> >
> >                              -Jason
> >
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