Sunshine Community Gardens

14 March 2019

www.sunshinecommunitygardens.org

Gardener's Picture page

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Brite Ideas - A source for soil amendments and other gardening supplies

Brite Ideas is a locally owned store with two locations in Austin - one on 4201 South Congress, Ste. 310 and one in the shopping center on the corner of Burnet and Rutland (2521 Rutland, Ste 475). Brite Ideas has an abundant inventory of organic soil amendments and a knowledgeable staff to provide you with all your gardening needs and answer questions. In addition, they offer Sunshine Gardeners a discount on their purchases.

To obtain a discount simply present your Sunshine membership card upon purchase. Cards (a bright lime green) are available in the office on the bookshelf on the right as you enter the trailer.

Here is their website but it is under construction - http://www.bihydro.com/

Happy Spring Gardening!

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Compost Etiquette - 10 Rules to Follow

Save Our Compost King and Queen, Randy Thompson and Janet Adams, some labor and headaches. Follow these RULES for good organic compost at Sunshine:

1. Absolutely NO khaki weed to be placed in compost.
2. Read the signs at the various compost piles and follow their directions.
3. Understand that different materials decompose at different rates. We do not take the following items which take too long to decompose for our compost operation:
   1. wood
   2. tree saplings
   3. branches
   4. bamboo
   Please put these items in the dumpster.
4. Please add only what will decompose in our operation. That means: no plastic, no rocks, no row cover/weed control fabric, and no inorganic materials of any kind. Place these items in the dumpster.
5. Cut your plants into smaller pieces using loppers or the root slayer. Whole plants take much longer to break down than pieces.
6. Return all tools/wheelbarrows/screens to the tool shed, but leave the trash buckets in the compost area.
7. When harvesting compost, put the material left in the screens in the buckets. Empty the buckets into the dumpster and return the buckets to the compost area when finished.
8. Put your rocks or any rocks you have retrieved from the compost pile into the ruts in the driveways throughout the garden or in the trash buckets which you dump into dumpster. Never put rocks in any grassy areas in the garden. Mowers do not like rocks.
9. Do not create debris piles around the harvest pile.
10. Please remember that compost is a common resource and share accordingly.

Thank you.

Please Recycle at Home VS Dumpster at Sunshine

There are plenty of items ending up in the Sunshine dumpster which recycle and should be taken home with you to be recycled. According to Randy, way too many plastic pots and other easy to identify recyclable things are ending up in the dumpster.

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