[Garden] asparagus, shovels

Tue Apr 28 09:20:40 EDT 2009

I think it is good that you spoke up Paul. Scheduling is almost
impossible to please everyone. Very few people actually signed up for
the doodle thing. There were twice as many people who attended on
thursday than used the doodle site. Further, there are people at the
garden who do not use the mailing list as their internet access is
limited, or they are not experts in the ways of email and such. Alas, we
can't please everyone :(

That said, I strongly encourage whoever wants to meet on Wednesday to
show up on Wednesday. Those in attendance can then decide if they want
to continue meeting on Wednesdays. At the meeting last Thursday, we all
agreed to meet again this coming Thursday, so I think we should stick to
at least that decision. I personally will be there on Thursday. However,
I cannot make any Thursdays thereafter, so perhaps I will try to spark
up another evening of the week. 

I think it is very important for people to realize that we can meet more
than one night a week. There is lots of interest this year, so I
honestly see no reason why we don't have two nights a week, and one day
on the weekend. In reality, it will still not be regular enough to keep
the weeds at bay :(

Here is a shortenned form of a task list for the next few weeks. These
items can all be done by anyone at any time, even if you decide to pop
by during lunch or coffee breaks :)

- Turn over beds. Get the weeds growing so we can pull the first round
prior to planting
- Clean our the stuff from under the rows of trees. Both sides of the
garden have old dead growth that should be cleaned up, old pallets that
we can probably throw out, etc...
- Remove and/or fix all fencing. Most of it is falling over or in a
state that rodents can easily crawl under
- Plan where to put seedlings / direct seeded vegetables
- At the least, minimize the size of the paths. or, remove them
completely (I am an advocate of one path through the middle only)
- prune trees 
- prune gooseberry bushes
- Decide where to plant pole beans and such and create latticework that
will not fall over half way through season :)
- Create good permanent markers for beds. Something that won't wear off
with the weather to label what is planted in each bed.
- Decide if the strawberries have encroached too much on the herb bed,
thin / move them as needed
- I think the shed is clean and organized, but that might be a task.
Someone had a great idea about how to organize the gloves
- Deal with wasps in shed
- clean all tools, hoses. Take home and wash gloves that need washing
- Decide what to do with the bags of fertilizery type stuff in the shed
- Make a sign for the compost bin showing which bin to put fresh
compostables in
- Perhaps touch up the paint on the garden sign. Another one at the
other end of the garden might be nice
- Shortly we should have compost I think, so lots of hauling will ensue

That should get us going for the next couple of weeks. Perhaps we can
put this on a wiki somewhere (I assume wpirg has one we could possibly
use?) so that people can add to it as we go. Also, I will print it off
and hang it up in the shed. When a task is complete, we can cross it off
the list. When we see a new task that needs to be done, we can add it
in. Or, we can continue using the log book. I think we do need a master
list of 'things to be done' though

Anyway, that is my book for the day.

Ian.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org 
> [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of Paul Nijjar
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:25 PM
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: Re: [Garden] asparagus, shovels
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 4/27/09, Ian Wormsbecker 
> <iwormsbecker at sandvine.com> wrote:
> 
> > This coming thursday at the garden around 6pm
> 
> I'm pretty sure I am going to regret piping up but I worry 
> that this meeting time is heavily biased by those who were at 
> last Thursday's meeting. 
> 
> According to the doodle site Alicia put up ( 
> http://doodle.com/3t4en7wqigy9crqw ) the winner appears to be 
> Wednesday at 6:30pm. 
> 
> I personally am willing to show up Thursday, but that does 
> not mean there should not be a meeting Wednesday. 
> 
> One concern I do have (whether we have one meetup or two) is 
> what to do at the garden over the next few weeks. Maybe there 
> is some work involving woodchips (whether laying them down or 
> raking them up, but preferably not both in the same spot). 
> 
> It might be worth recording past plantings on maps. If we're 
> going to rip out some of the paths then maybe we don't want 
> to finalize the map for this year, but we could get started. 
> 
> There are a few weeds to murder, but there won't be many yet. 
> 
> What else is there to do?
> 
> - Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
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