Sunshine Weekly Weeder Newsletter
22 March 2018
www.sunshinecommunitygardens.org
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Gauging Seed Bank Interest
Love growing veggies? Have you struggled to find veggie varieties that will thrive in Central Texas? Did you know your fellow gardeners may have the best seeds available, with genetics honed for our unique climate? Join the Central Texas Seed Bank for a seed swap and kickoff meeting! We will discuss possible models for a seed bank and assess community need. If you have them, bring seeds to swap. - Meredith Gauthier via Ila Falvey
When: Saturday, April 7, 2018 from 2-4 PM
Where: Sustainable Food Center
2921 E 17th St Bldg C, Austin, TX 78702
More info: https://facebook.com/events/150385705655627?%3Fti=ia
Looking to Share Mesh!
Dear Gardeners, do you have leftover remesh, steel concrete reinforcing mesh, to give away or sell? Do you want to go in on a roll of remesh? We want to make new tomato cages, but don't want to buy a whole 150 ft. roll of remesh on our own. Thank you, and please contact Katharine Beisner.
Compost Etiquette, Revisited
Adding to compost piles
Absolutely NO khaki weed. It is starting to grow and will soon cover a lot of our common areas. It is very difficult to control and we need to work together to keep it out of our plots. If you are not sure what it looks like, please ask. It forms nasty burrs that will puncture a bicycle tire.
When bringing items to the compost piles, please read the signs and follow directions because different materials decompose at different rates. Whole plants take much longer to break down than pieces. Use the loppers or root slayer and cut into smaller pieces.
Please add only what will decompose in our operation; the rest is for the dumpster. This means that in the composting piles:
- ➯ no plastic
- ➯ rocks
- ➯ no row cover/weed control fabric
- ➯ no inorganic material of any kind
- ➯ no wood
- ➯ no tree saplings
- ➯ no branches
- ➯ no bamboo
Return all tools/wheelbarrows/screens to the tool shed.
Please leave the trash buckets in the compost area.
When harvesting compost
- ➯ Put trash in the trash buckets.
- ➯ Put material that has not fully decomposed into the large pile next to the eastern fence.
- ➯ Put rocks in the ruts in the roads or in the trash buckets, never in the grass. Mowers do not like rocks.
- ➯ Do not create debris piles around the harvest pile. If it is not yet decomposed but will, it goes in the large pile by the fence.
Please remember that compost is a common resource and share accordingly. Thank you. -- Randy Thompson
Weeder Content
Should you have any content to add to the Weeder, email your article or suggestion to Kristin Phillips. On normal weeks content should be received by end of day Wednesday.
Officer and Zone Coordinator Contacts - Sunshine Gardens
Officers
- President - Nick Sweeney nick.sweeney@hotmail.com
- Vice President - Marilyn Landberg marilynlandberg@utexas.edu
- Secretary - Polly Porter pporter_scg@austin.rr.com
- Treasurer - Caroline Limaye scgtreasurer1@gmail.com
- Director - Bill Cason wccason@gmail.com
- Director - Lori Dobbin loridobbin@gmail.com
- Director - Randy Thompson jartdaht@gmail.com
Email the board.
Zone Coordinators
- Zone 1, Jasmine Baker austinjasmine@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, Shannon Posern sposern@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 - Kristin Phillips phillips.102@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
- Education Committee - Shannon Posern shannonposern@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
- Spanish language contact - Andriana Prioleau gabp8dec65@hotmail.com
Record Service Hours Online - Green Binder
