Time to get back in the garden and make useful strides toward a successful spring garden. I am energized like the EverReady Rabbit.
As you may remember the last spring garden was a bust with cool damp weather hindering germination. But we will not stop trying as His needy folks are still hungry.
Since
last blog post we have done several things such as ordering and replanting Dixon
Dale Farms onyuns since the first set succumbed to the effects of two frog
strangling deluges and two nose and toes nipping freezes. We also planted a
pound each of red and white onyun sets. Also looks like the carrots and
rutabagas suffered the same fate.
Stephanie and Jan and
that team have made individual compost piles in each of the five trash carts the
town gave us. They are gathering coffee grounds from Starbucks and putting in
each cart as well as on the main compost pile. This is much needed and hard
work!
Les Risner donated and
delivered a big pile of bags of pine needles.
Dianne Parks has donated decorative gourd seeds to us. BIG THANKS!
Bob Hathaway will be getting us a trailer of compost
next week donated by Dixon Gardens.
The garlics looks fine.
It is my dream we make a major upgrade to the garden with respect to
decorating and flowers and no-bare-ground-mulching. To this end we are
soliciting a team to plan and implement and manage this Herculean effort. Leah
and Arlene have expressed an interest and would make excellent project leaders.
Maybe they can contact the MAMG interns. I have send a solicitation to CHS TV
and Mark Heuberger asking for a general email be sent out to his town
list.
Next work day, Lord willing, is Satiddy Feb 8
from 10am till noon. RSVP to this email if you can be there.
You must have
turned in to me or our mailbox a signed liability release form before you work
in the garden each year.
Here's a plan of things for us to get done ASAP, and as always I welcome
and need your input positive or negative.
Place bales of hay/straw around the two front plots both inside and outside
of the fence underlaid with landscape fabric and/or shingles which I have. They
will serve both as planters (some) and platform for the myriads of potted
flowers and herbs we want.
Fill 100 6 inch and 10 inch plastic containers with our new compost.
Plant 20 containers of our new bush sweet pea plants.
Move and organize most of our front bin stuff to our new shed.
Dig up the carrots and rutabagas and take any good ones to the Food
Pantry.
Clean out and hill up and cover with black plastic plots 2-6 exceptin where
the garlics is.
Start 120 Napa cabbage seeds in seed trays.
Put blood meal (natural nitrogen) on the garlics and onyuns.
Set up four new trellises opposite (north side) the extant south four
trellises.
Clean up and sharpen our tools.
We have fund balance of $405 so we will need
to raise about $500 to get thhe redecoration done.
We need these supplies:
Four trellises and rebar (about $120)
Six pallets to use in the redecorating (I
will donate these)
Forty bales of hay or straw ($240)
A hunnert combination 6 and 10 inch (used)
plastic containers ($25)
Trailer load of compost (Bob is getting
this for us)
Black plastic ($100)
Landscape fabric under bales and between
raised beds ($50)
Bags of leaves to hold down plastic (I will
scrounge these)
Bone meal, blood meal, nitrogen, organic minerals
($120)
On my wish list:
12 Texas tomato cages with extensions
($200) http://www.tomatocage.com/
Baskets and other whimsy containers and
art
Solar lights
Neon glow paint
for some of the containers
Butterfly lick
Bird bath
Sundial
Hummingbird feeder
Bird houses
Plastic
chicken wire fence to replace real chicken wire fence
More raised
beds
I have learned to dream big!
Thanks,
Ain't God good!
cw See beautiful pictures
below:
Since last blog post we have done several things such as ordering and replanting Dixon Dale Farms onyuns since the first set succumbed to the effects of two frog strangling deluges and two nose and toes nipping freezes. We also planted a pound each of red and white onyun sets. Also looks like the carrots and rutabagas suffered the same fate.
Dianne Parks has donated decorative gourd seeds to us. BIG THANKS!
Bob Hathaway will be getting us a trailer of compost
next week donated by Dixon Gardens.
The garlics looks fine.
It is my dream we make a major upgrade to the garden with respect to
decorating and flowers and no-bare-ground-mulching. To this end we are
soliciting a team to plan and implement and manage this Herculean effort. Leah
and Arlene have expressed an interest and would make excellent project leaders.
Maybe they can contact the MAMG interns. I have send a solicitation to CHS TV
and Mark Heuberger asking for a general email be sent out to his town
list.
Next work day, Lord willing, is Satiddy Feb 8 from 10am till noon. RSVP to this email if you can be there.
Here's a plan of things for us to get done ASAP, and as always I welcome
and need your input positive or negative.
Place bales of hay/straw around the two front plots both inside and outside
of the fence underlaid with landscape fabric and/or shingles which I have. They
will serve both as planters (some) and platform for the myriads of potted
flowers and herbs we want.
Fill 100 6 inch and 10 inch plastic containers with our new compost.
Plant 20 containers of our new bush sweet pea plants.
Move and organize most of our front bin stuff to our new shed.
Dig up the carrots and rutabagas and take any good ones to the Food
Pantry.
Clean out and hill up and cover with black plastic plots 2-6 exceptin where
the garlics is.
Start 120 Napa cabbage seeds in seed trays.
Put blood meal (natural nitrogen) on the garlics and onyuns.
Set up four new trellises opposite (north side) the extant south four
trellises.
Clean up and sharpen our tools.
We have fund balance of $405 so we will need
to raise about $500 to get thhe redecoration done.
We need these supplies:
Four trellises and rebar (about $120)
Six pallets to use in the redecorating (I
will donate these)
Forty bales of hay or straw ($240)
A hunnert combination 6 and 10 inch (used)
plastic containers ($25)
Trailer load of compost (Bob is getting this for us)
Black plastic ($100)
Trailer load of compost (Bob is getting this for us)
Black plastic ($100)
Landscape fabric under bales and between
raised beds ($50)
Bags of leaves to hold down plastic (I will scrounge these)
Bone meal, blood meal, nitrogen, organic minerals ($120)
Bags of leaves to hold down plastic (I will scrounge these)
Bone meal, blood meal, nitrogen, organic minerals ($120)
On my wish list:
12 Texas tomato cages with extensions
($200) http://www.tomatocage.com/
Baskets and other whimsy containers and
art
Solar lights
Neon glow paint for some of the containers
Butterfly lick
Bird bath
Sundial
Hummingbird feeder
Bird houses
Plastic chicken wire fence to replace real chicken wire fence
More raised beds
Neon glow paint for some of the containers
Butterfly lick
Bird bath
Sundial
Hummingbird feeder
Bird houses
Plastic chicken wire fence to replace real chicken wire fence
More raised beds
I have learned to dream big!
Thanks,
Ain't God good!
cw See beautiful pictures
below:
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