[Garden] One meeting this Wednesday, another on Thursday

Thu Apr 30 14:39:18 EDT 2009

Hi Carmi,

it's off of westmount, north of columbia. find the garden page at
wpirg.org- i believe there is a map there.

cheers,
Alicia

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Carmi Hammoud
<chammoud3515 at sympatico.ca>wrote:

>  Hi Alicia,
>
> I may be able to come this afternoon (It's today, right?).
> I would really like to meet the members, as I missed last week's meeting.
> Where is the garden located?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carmi
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Alicia Mah <alicia.mah at gmail.com>
> *To:* garden at lists.wpirg.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:22 PM
> *Subject:* [Garden] One meeting this Wednesday, another on Thursday
>
> 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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