Hi Gardeners,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Alicia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ian Wormsbecker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iwormsbecker@sandvine.com">iwormsbecker@sandvine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think it is good that you spoke up Paul. Scheduling is almost<br>
impossible to please everyone. Very few people actually signed up for<br>
the doodle thing. There were twice as many people who attended on<br>
thursday than used the doodle site. Further, there are people at the<br>
garden who do not use the mailing list as their internet access is<br>
limited, or they are not experts in the ways of email and such. Alas, we<br>
can't please everyone :(<br>
<br>
That said, I strongly encourage whoever wants to meet on Wednesday to<br>
show up on Wednesday. Those in attendance can then decide if they want<br>
to continue meeting on Wednesdays. At the meeting last Thursday, we all<br>
agreed to meet again this coming Thursday, so I think we should stick to<br>
at least that decision. I personally will be there on Thursday. However,<br>
I cannot make any Thursdays thereafter, so perhaps I will try to spark<br>
up another evening of the week.<br>
<br>
I think it is very important for people to realize that we can meet more<br>
than one night a week. There is lots of interest this year, so I<br>
honestly see no reason why we don't have two nights a week, and one day<br>
on the weekend. In reality, it will still not be regular enough to keep<br>
the weeds at bay :(<br>
<br>
<br>
Here is a shortenned form of a task list for the next few weeks. These<br>
items can all be done by anyone at any time, even if you decide to pop<br>
by during lunch or coffee breaks :)<br>
<br>
- Turn over beds. Get the weeds growing so we can pull the first round<br>
prior to planting<br>
- Clean our the stuff from under the rows of trees. Both sides of the<br>
garden have old dead growth that should be cleaned up, old pallets that<br>
we can probably throw out, etc...<br>
- Remove and/or fix all fencing. Most of it is falling over or in a<br>
state that rodents can easily crawl under<br>
- Plan where to put seedlings / direct seeded vegetables<br>
- At the least, minimize the size of the paths. or, remove them<br>
completely (I am an advocate of one path through the middle only)<br>
- prune trees<br>
- prune gooseberry bushes<br>
- Decide where to plant pole beans and such and create latticework that<br>
will not fall over half way through season :)<br>
- Create good permanent markers for beds. Something that won't wear off<br>
with the weather to label what is planted in each bed.<br>
- Decide if the strawberries have encroached too much on the herb bed,<br>
thin / move them as needed<br>
- I think the shed is clean and organized, but that might be a task.<br>
Someone had a great idea about how to organize the gloves<br>
- Deal with wasps in shed<br>
- clean all tools, hoses. Take home and wash gloves that need washing<br>
- Decide what to do with the bags of fertilizery type stuff in the shed<br>
- Make a sign for the compost bin showing which bin to put fresh<br>
compostables in<br>
- Perhaps touch up the paint on the garden sign. Another one at the<br>
other end of the garden might be nice<br>
- Shortly we should have compost I think, so lots of hauling will ensue<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
That should get us going for the next couple of weeks. Perhaps we can<br>
put this on a wiki somewhere (I assume wpirg has one we could possibly<br>
use?) so that people can add to it as we go. Also, I will print it off<br>
and hang it up in the shed. When a task is complete, we can cross it off<br>
the list. When we see a new task that needs to be done, we can add it<br>
in. Or, we can continue using the log book. I think we do need a master<br>
list of 'things to be done' though<br>
<br>
Anyway, that is my book for the day.<br>
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Ian.<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:garden-bounces@lists.wpirg.org">garden-bounces@lists.wpirg.org</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> [mailto:<a href="mailto:garden-bounces@lists.wpirg.org">garden-bounces@lists.wpirg.org</a>] On Behalf Of Paul Nijjar<br>
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:25 PM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:garden@lists.wpirg.org">garden@lists.wpirg.org</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Subject: Re: [Garden] asparagus, shovels<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> --- On Mon, 4/27/09, Ian Wormsbecker<br>
> <<a href="mailto:iwormsbecker@sandvine.com">iwormsbecker@sandvine.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > This coming thursday at the garden around 6pm<br>
><br>
> I'm pretty sure I am going to regret piping up but I worry<br>
> that this meeting time is heavily biased by those who were at<br>
> last Thursday's meeting.<br>
><br>
> According to the doodle site Alicia put up (<br>
> <a href="http://doodle.com/3t4en7wqigy9crqw" target="_blank">http://doodle.com/3t4en7wqigy9crqw</a> ) the winner appears to be<br>
> Wednesday at 6:30pm.<br>
><br>
> I personally am willing to show up Thursday, but that does<br>
> not mean there should not be a meeting Wednesday.<br>
><br>
> One concern I do have (whether we have one meetup or two) is<br>
> what to do at the garden over the next few weeks. Maybe there<br>
> is some work involving woodchips (whether laying them down or<br>
> raking them up, but preferably not both in the same spot).<br>
><br>
> It might be worth recording past plantings on maps. If we're<br>
> going to rip out some of the paths then maybe we don't want<br>
> to finalize the map for this year, but we could get started.<br>
><br>
> There are a few weeds to murder, but there won't be many yet.<br>
><br>
> What else is there to do?<br>
><br>
> - Paul<br>
><br>
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