Work sessions 4/26 & 5/3: optional

In order to save some of our gardening mojo for PLANTING DAY (Sat., May 7th at 10am), the next 2 Tuesday work sessions are optional. But rest assured, there is plenty of work to be done!
  
For tomorrow's work session, please bring old sheets and blankets so that we can cover up any delicate transplants and sprouts from the frost that is slated for tomorrow night. Feel free to say a little prayer for all of our valley's beloved peach farmers who won't be getting much sleep that night!
 
April showers bring May flowers AND enormous weeds as soon as the sun comes out! We will be doing some serious weed PULLING and weed-wacking tomorrow evening (please bring a canister of gasoline for the weed wacker if you have it handy.) We will also be working on weeding the landscaped easement between the sidewalk and Main Street.  The rain this weekend has really loosened up the soil, weeds are easily pulled right now. 

Tues, May 3rd we will be focused on weeding the pathways and the beds to get ready for planting day a few days later.

Memberships are now capped. Wahoo! What a fantastic turn-out for registrations/burgeoning participation! We thank you for all of your enthusiasm and dedication that you have already shown this season. We are looking forward to gardening together this year!

Tues., April 19th Work Session

Join us for our 2nd work session of the season. We will be spreading plastic row covers and laying down irrigation tape. We will also be tilling up more soil along the garden's east border where we plan on planting bushels of corn! And we have a few more weeds to do away with in order to start the season with a clean slate or as clean as we can be of weeds.

We will resume with registrations for those who were not able to make it last week to sign up.

Sign-Ups/1st Work Session - Tues., April 12th 5pm at 10th & Main

Sign-ups/Registration for the 2011 season + Tilling Work Session/Spreading compost are taking place starting at 5pm Tues., April 12th at 10th & Main. Note: Membership dues are $35 for the season. Please bring extra shovels, pitchforks, and wheelbarrows as we may be doing some hand tilling and we will definitely need to be uprooting some weeds.
 
If you cannot make it for the sign-up/work session tomorrow, please email us to confirm that you do plan on joining as an active member this season. Further, please plan on attending one of the upcoming Tuesday work sessions to help get the garden primed and ready for the next seven months of growing veggies and flowers and a healthy community!   

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We now have a page of Facebook.  If you use Facebook please become a fan  of  "GJ Main Street Community Garden" and feel free to post questions, pictures, and thoughts about the garden.  And as always, remember that you are free to comment on any of these posts to start a discussion.  We'd love to hear from you!!


and:  the baby spinach poked up yesterday!