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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Alicia,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I may be able to come this afternoon (It's today,
right?).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would really like to meet the members, as I
missed last week's meeting. Where is the garden located?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carmi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=alicia.mah@gmail.com href="mailto:alicia.mah@gmail.com">Alicia
Mah</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=garden@lists.wpirg.org
href="mailto:garden@lists.wpirg.org">garden@lists.wpirg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:22
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Garden] One meeting this
Wednesday, another on Thursday</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">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><FONT color=#888888><BR><BR>Ian.<BR></FONT>
<DIV class=im><BR><BR>> -----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>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
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