Sunshine Community Gardens

21 March 2019

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Spring Has Finally Sprung!

Thank You Don Freeman for growing lovely Iris for us all to enjoy at Sunshine Community Gardens. Don says the Iris Show will be on April 13, 2019 this year. Check the Austin Area Garden Council Calendar for times.

Workday - Saturday 3/23/19 - 9:00 TO 11:00 AM.

If too rainy at 9:00 AM, start time may be moved until 10:00 AM to Noon

TCMGA Gardening Seminar: March 30, 2019

"Overcoming the Challenges of Growing Tomatoes"

Master Gardener Vegetable Specialist Patty Leander will kick-off this year's seminar series on March 30, 2019, with a presentation on tomatoes. She will share her knowledge of how to overcome some common challenges that adversely affect tomatoes, such as common bugs and diseases. In addition, Patty will share harvesting tips and some of her favorite recipes for enjoying your tomato bounty. Invite your friends and neighbors.

The seminar is open to the public and no RSVP is needed. You can direct them to the Zilker Botanical Garden, or TCMGA websites for more information. Although the seminar is free, Zilker Botanical Garden requires a park entrance fee. The seminars are held from 10 a.m. to noon in the Zilker Garden Center.

Volunteer Needed for Compost Screen Repair

If you want to get some of your volunteer hours in this spring, contact Randy Thompson about doing screen repair on compost sifters. Randy Thompson - jartdaht@gmail.com

Gardener Rules for Using SCG's Compost

Absolutely NO khaki weed to be placed in compost.
Read the signs at the various compost piles and follow their directions.
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.
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.
Cut your plants into smaller pieces using loppers or the root slayer. Whole plants take much longer to break down than pieces.
Return all tools/wheelbarrows/screens to the tool shed, but leave the trash buckets in the compost area.
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.
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.
Do not create debris piles around the harvest pile.
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.

Weeder Content

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Officer and Zone Coordinator Contacts - Sunshine Gardens

Officers

President - Marilyn Landberg marilynlandberg@utexas.edu
Vice President - vacant
Secretary - Noelle Letteri nletteri@yahoo.com
Treasurer - Caroline Limaye scgtreasurer1@gmail.com
Director - Linda Booker lindaruthbooker@gmail.com
Director - Jeff Taylor kscjtaylor@prodigy.net
Director - Randy Thompson jartdaht@gmail.com

Email the board.

Zone Coordinators

Zone 1, Susan Wallar swallar@gmail.com
Zone 2, Wayne Kuenstler wckuenstler@gmail.com
Zone 3, Ludmila Voskov lvoskov@austin.rr.com
Zone 4, Ila Falvey ila.falvey@gmail.com
Zone 5, Mary Gifford mgifford@austin.rr.com
Zone 6, Charlotte Jernigan charlotte@cybermesa.com
Zone 7, Maria and Philip Wiley m.stroeva@gmail.com, philip9wiley@gmail.com
Zone 8, Steve Uecker steven_uecker@hotmail.com
Zone 9, Kerry Howell casonhowell@gmail.com
Zone 10, Christopher Schroder christopher.s.schroder@gmail.com &
Karl Arcuri karl.w.arcuri@gmail.com

Other Personnel

Weekly Weeder Newsletter - Holly Gilman hollyjgilman@gmail.com
Plant Sale - Randy Thompson & Janet Adams jartdaht@gmailcom
TSBVI Liaison & Volunteer Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmailcom
Plot Assignment - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
Compost Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
Carpentry & Repairs - Robert Jarry r.jarry@sbcglobal.net
Water Leak Repairs - Steve Schulz sschulz784@aol.com
Tools & Wheelbarrows - Bob Easter beaster1@austin.rr.com
Kitchen Supplies - Anita Keese anodekraft1@msn.com
(If supplies are needed for events, contact by email or at 512-773-2178)
Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jen@enjeneer.com
Micah 6 - Dana Kuykendall kuykendall@austin.rr.com
Micah 6 - Mary Gifford mgifford@austin.rr.com
Website Coordinator - Sharon Rempert scgardenweb@gmail.com

Record Service Hours Online - Green Binder

Garden Thoughts

Calendar

Ongoing

Board Meetings

Second Tuesday of every month.

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