[Garden] One meeting this Wednesday, another on Thursday

Tue Apr 28 13:22:14 EDT 2009

Hi Gardeners,

I'm planning on going to the garden this Wednesday around 5pm. I tend to
stay for at least a couple of hours so please do come out and join me if you
want, I welcome the company :D.

Also, soil testing is being done next week Tuesday (May 5) at 1pm at Larry
Lamb's lab on UW campus (EV2 1029B and/or EV2 1033). Email me privately if
you think you can come out - many hands make light work. The testing should
take a couple of hours.

Cheers,
Alicia

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ian Wormsbecker
<iwormsbecker at sandvine.com>wrote:

> 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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