[Garden] Gardening today

[Ian Wormsbecker]

We weeded this area last night. It now looks much nicer, and only took
about 15 minutes with a hoe. A few more days of this and the grass
should subside. Unfortunately, most of those plants are dead or dying :(

If anyone comes across squash, watermelon, or cucumber seedlings, please
feel free to nab them and we can plant them. Most of the cukes are dead
as well :(

Ian 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org 
> [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of Paul Nijjar
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:38 PM
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: Re: [Garden] Gardening today
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:36:43PM -0400, Tom Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps I could spread the compost pile over the area 
> thickly enough 
> > to keep the grass down, any objections?
> 
> I would prefer that we hand-weed or use a hoe. We have never 
> cultivated that area of the garden before, so it is no 
> surprise that it is weedy (last year it was all grass and 
> ragweed). Maybe I will take a stab at it on Sunday. 
> 
> My understanding is also that compost cooks quicker if it is 
> in a mound than spread thinly. 
> 
> Having said that I am not going to argue this too strongly. 
> My real preference would be to get a few more gardeners out; 
> many hands make for light work. There are 66 people on this 
> mailing list, after all. 
> 
> - Paul
> 
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