20 Janurary, 2022
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In this Issue:
- Plant Sale Countdown: Six Weeks Out
- Garden Tasks for Service Hours
Plant Sale Countdown: Six Weeks Out
By Janet Adams
Our annual plant sale is only 6 weeks away!!
Descriptions for tomato, pepper, and eggplant varieties we hope to have available are on the website. You can begin getting excited about the wonderful tomatoes you can grow in just a few short weeks.
Lots of work has been done already. Herbs are started in the greenhouse at the garden and we are about to transplant those into larger pots. You can look through the doors but please do not enter the greenhouse unless you are on the herb team. We are trying to limit pest introduction as well as regulate temperatures.
Seeds were ordered and delivered to Gabriel Valley Farms near Georgetown where they grow our starts organically. They will deliver our plants the week of the plant sale. It's an exciting time.
Soon members will get an email describing the jobs available on SignUp Genius. Please read the descriptions carefully before you volunteer. But do volunteer. This is Sunshine's only fundraiser and it has kept our membership fees steady for many years no matter how dry of a summer we have had. All members are expected to help with the plant sale in some way. There are lots of different things to do.
As for our planning in regards to the pandemic, we ask that volunteers do all they can to protect themselves and others from exposure to the virus.
If you have questions contact me at jartdaht@gmail.com or 512-808-7994 or find me at the garden.
Garden Tasks
20 January, 2022
Thank you to those who have participated in our last 7 work days, the next workday will be Saturday, February 5 from 09:00-12:00.
We've accomplished quite a bit but there is always more. I believe our next priority task will be beginning to clean up for The Plant Sale. This will be the first of 4 Saturdays in a row the we will be working in preparation For the Plant Sale in March. Contact Janet Adams (jardaht@gmail.com) for details.
We are running into a problem with hose connections. Please do not connect hoses with aluminum fixtures to our brass faucets. These two metal alloys will chemically bond, effectively welding them to each other. If you have them connected now, be aware that if there are problems with the faucet, your hose may have to be cut in order to get it off. Aluminum hose hardware is generally silver in color. If unsure, ask your vendor or read any literature that comes with the hose.
Priority (Tasks specifically needed):
- Maintaining common paths and common areas. If you have plants extending into common paths, trim them. The common paths are designed to allow the biggest wheelbarrows that we own to traverse them unimpeded.
- Mowing and maintaining perimeter fence line inside and out.
- Sunshine Community Garden was fined a few weeks ago for the dumpster being
over filled. Please help us to avoid this by following a few simple
guidelines.
- Fill the dumpster from the back (under the hinges) to the front. If you put stuff in the front, it tends to stay there.
- If you think the dumpster is full, contact me (Steve Camp, I'm there a lot) or Randy Thompson. We can usually compact stuff to make more space.
- Follow the rules regarding what goes into the dumpster and what does not, there's signage close by.
- If the dumpster actually does get full before pick up day, I'm working on finding a spot where we can store a reasonable overage, to be loaded after the dumpster is emptied.
- If you're done with your project, please close the lids.
TSVBI:
- Weeding paths in TSBVI garden and wood chip areas on west side. (This is normally needed. Try to get out roots. Be sure to smooth out paths after weeding to facilitate TSBVI students moving around garden).
- Picking up trash in compost area and along fence lines.
- Cleaning street curb gutters of dirt and debris build up. (At places in the curb gutter along Sunshine Dr. and 49th St., soil and debris has built up and grass beginning to grow. Scrape off with shovel and put in wheelbarrow. If debris is gravel can be put in low places in parking lot. Otherwise, put in dumpster.)
Regular:
- Mowing (Please check area around trailer and greenhouses.
- Maintaining common paths. (Gardeners are required to maintain a 2' strip of common paths adjacent to their plot.)
- Mowing and cleaning up overgrown/messy places in common areas.
Note: TSBVI hour tasks can also count as regular hours.
Your Zone Coordinator may have more tasks than are listed here. Contact them if you feel that you have run out of things to do.
Slow Down..You're on Garden Time! Enjoy!
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