Short notice group work night - Thursday 6pm

Thanks to a hard working volunteer, a large part of the garden has been tilled. This will allow us to replant the corn and put in some green manure, but it depends on how many hands we have. If you have a spare moment tomorrow night, please join us to help out. We also need to stake the rest of the tomatoes and weed the beans.

Also, if you need to do work in your own garden, the soil is very easy to work with at the moment.

Group work night Wed., 23 June - 6:30pm

We're having another group work night this coming Wed. at 6:30pm. This week we were able to weed the peppers, melons, and raspberries and thin out the lettuce and radishes.

To be done this week:

-Weed the tomatoes

-Replant corn (much of it didn't germinate)

-Stake the tomato plants

-Weed and thin the beans

If you can't make it Wed., you are welcome to come at your convenience to do your part. Feel free to send me an email if you do so I can keep track of the progress.

We got several large plastic bins, but we still need lots of plastic bags. We could also use more tomato stakes or cages.

Tarp down, sprouts up

This year, we are trying something new to thwart the squash vine borers: we're covering our squash and pumpkins with Agribon cover. It allows the sun and rain in, but keeps out insects. We'll also apply a BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) spray to get any find themselves under the cover.



Many of the seeds are sprouted, including the beans, corn, and squash of our three sisters garden.

Our greens are off to a nice start, too.

Upcoming needs

-60 tomato cages (lots more tomatoes than last year)

-several large plastic bins (to collect and transport the harvest)

-1 and 2 gallon plastic bags (to bag up the vegetables)

-spare garden tools

Please share this with others. Donations can be dropped off at Church of the Saviour during office hours (see the website for details).