Thank you all for your hard work and participation. To ice the cake, we have Ben to thank for getting the irrigation system fixed up and ready to roll with little to no leaks. We gave everything a good soaking overnight on Sat. and today's rain and mild (notwithstanding some of this wind!) weather should be welcome by the little transitioning plants. We still have peppers, okra, and eggplant starts coming our way in the next few weeks when they have gotten big enough to leave the nest (or greenhouse as it were.)
We are working on putting together the list of work assignments for each of you to be independently responsible for over the course of the season. We will hopefully be able to send that out before tomorrow's work session along w/ the revised planting plan according to where everything wound up on Saturday. If it is super rainy and muddy tomorrow, we will not conduct a work session. If it is a lovely day, please join us there starting around 5pm.
For those that could not make it to Saturday's mandatory Planting Day, please see the list below for items that need your attention. Please send us an email letting us know when you have been able to put this work into these areas. We expect that you will spend about 2 hours accomplishing this work over the next week or so. These items include:
1) pulling weeds from the north end of the garden next to the alley and in the NE corner next to the Raimer's fence --- do NOT pull the lemon balm! It is a big full-leafed plant right at the NE corner of the furthest north CSA raised bed.
2) pulling weeds along the fence on the east side of the garden. Do NOT step IN the corn's luscious tilled soil (which is a 4' wide bed about 2' away from and running parallel to the Raimer's fence) and do NOT step on the newly planted strawberries which are south of the corn's row.
3) clearing the alfalfa and seeding grasses from the driveway area west of the garden fence
4) Front Easement Xeriscape Perennial Planting Beds: pulling weeds, pulling back rock ground cover, reinstalling new weed mat (with many thanks to Martha Jones for finding a screaming deal at True Value on the weed mat and graciously donating 4 rolls of it to us!) and spreading the rocks back out.
5) Clearing the cheet grass from the area b/w the garden beds and the garden fence near the irrigation system.
6) Securing the black plastic (that has loosened in the wind) sheeting under rocks/soil.
If you need assistance or clarification on any of these tasks, please ask!
Generally speaking, now we keep on top of the weeds and the watering (the watering is handled by a small group of people that operates the irrigation system to give the garden a good soak twice a week) and the compost and wait for things to be ready to eat!
