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).

Community planting report

After the rain delay from last Sunday, some volunteers came together last Monday to get the watering system ready for the community planting. We worked the kinks out of the soaker tape and tested the water pressure. Everything was ready for the big day on Sunday.

The rain this week left the garden pretty muddy (some people compared it to walking on the moon, while I thought it was more like walking in marshmallow.) But the rain was pretty much over by the 9am start time (save for a few sprinkles.) Turn out was low, but we were still able to get most of the work done.


We planted several rows of vegetables, including: corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, melons, carrots, lettuce, and radishes. We had a big donation of pepper and tomato plants that filled up two and a half rows. We also laid out the plots for the families and individuals.

One brave volunteer found it easier to go barefoot than plod through the mud in shoes.

We planted another 3 sisters garden in the southwest corner along with lots of flowers and sunflowers.

We also had a nice donation of some extra raspberry plants and several posts to trellis them (and the grapes).

Our work is done for a couple of weeks, but we'll need to weed pretty soon. Also, we are in need of some supplies, especially tomato cages. We'll be getting the word out about these needs soon, so stay tuned.

Canceled: Monday, 17 May volunteer session

Due to the bad weather, we're rescheduling the water system work for Thursday, 20 May from 6 to 7 pm.

Community Planting: Sat., 22 May - 9 am

We're happy to announce that the community planting will be held this Saturday, 22 May, at 9am. We welcome everyone who is interested, even if you have never gardened before. If you do have gardening tools, we encourage you to bring them along since we don't have many to share. What we do have a lot of is dirt and seeds, and if it is anything like last year, we'll have a lot of fun. If you do have seeds or plants you want to donate, bring them along and we'll find room.