Garden Potluck

Summer Potluck! Get creative with all the fresh veggies and herbs and create your favorite garden potluck dish to share after tonight's work session. Potluck will get underway around 7pm. Lemonade and water provided. Bring your own plates, utensils, and chair. Family and friends are welcome to join!

July 3rd Work Session

Our garden is really starting to take off.  With all this heat and the automated water system, things are looking good.  There are lots of green tomatoes and the eggplant and beans are just starting to produce.  The greens and herbs are all charging ahead.  And, of course, the weeds are right there with it all.

As per usual we have a work session tonight and this will include: WEEDING (including herb and flower beds, i encourage everyone to put in a solid 1/2 hour of weeding), staking any tomatoes that don't already have stakes, continuing tomato suckering (someone should know how to do this if  you don't), turn the compost, check for squash bugs, thinning beets, carrots, radishes as needed.  As for harvest:  chard, kale, herbs, and this week we'll have our first green beans and a few eggplant!

Heat + Sunshine + Irrigation= growing plants!

Thinking the heat is too much? It's wonderful for the tomatoes! Tonight at garden session we'll be staking them, and doing LOTS of weeding, turning compost, looking for squash bugs, spreading diatomaceous earth, replanting choy, seeding beans, and harvesting greens!

Please focus on weeds tonight!  The sooner we get them the better!  If everyone weeds for 30 minutes solid each to start that will help out a lot!

Also- As of this past weekend, the garden now has an automated watering system with a timer! It will water the garden every other day, for now. Please don't mess with any of the valves, it's a system all of it's own now! Thanks to the volunteers that made it happen!

Work Session Tonight 6/5

Please join us for our weekly work session tonight from 5:00-7:00PM


We will be weeding, reseeding, repairing drip tape, staking tomatoes, and harvesting!


If you have tomato stakes that you are willing to donate, please bring them to the garden during the next few weeks, we will likely need more than we have left over from last year. We planted a lot of tomatoes!


Other reminders:

• If you have not yet paid your membership, please do so ASAP!
• Please log your work hours on the sheet posted on the bulletin board at the shed. We still have people interested in joining the garden, and in an effort to keep membership around 40, we'll bring in new members if we see that current members are not showing up.

Do NOT water the garden until further notice

We will be trying a new approach to watering the garden over the next two weeks, so if you are scheduled to water during the next two weeks (Karen G, Ilana, and Harriet - are on the schedule) please DO NOT WATER the garden! We'll let you know as soon as we are back to the regular schedule and/or if we have to make any changes.

Thank you!!

Work Session Tonight, May 29 from 5-7pm

We will be focusing on weeding, reseeding greens, repairing leaks in the drip tape, and securing the black plastic rows after the crazy windstorm over the weekend.

Also, if anyone has basil starts to donate to the garden, please bring them! The basil that we already planted did not get enough water and all dried up.

If you have not paid your membership ($35) please do so ASAP!

Thanks and see you tonight at the garden!

Perennial herb bed and strawberries update

Hi all
Just a few updates, the perennial herb bed has been planted and labeled on Sunday (5/27), I took advantage of the cool weather. There are still a few more plants to go in there, but we are on our way! Also, I planted half of the strawberries. While I was at the garden on Sunday, I had to secure some of the black plastic. It had blown over and covered some of the eggplants and tomatoes, so the battle continues.