Sunshine Community Gardens

12 August, 2021

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In this Issue:

• Orientation for Using Battery Operated Mowers & Trimmers
• Photos from Various Sunshine Gardens by Susan Van Haitsma
• Garden Chores by Steve Camp

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Orientation to Battery Operated Mowers and Trimmers

Sat, August 14, 2021 - 9:00 to 10:00 am

Steve Camp writes:

I will be holding an orientation for our expanding battery powered mower and trimmer equipment on Saturday, August 14 from 9:00-10:00. Please contact VP Steve Camp (campinthegarden@yahoo.com) for info, or just show up at the southern end of the tool shed.

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Photos by Susan Van Haitsma - Zone 3

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Needed Service Hour Tasks - August 12, 2021

To help keep gardeners aware of what service hour tasks are needed, an attempt will be made to keep this list current.

Please observe our 3 mph speed limit! The garden road is not a ranch road!

Priority (Tasks specifically needed):

1. Digging up khaki weed, wherever you find it (Counts as TSVBI hours).
2. 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.
3. Removing hackberries and Johnson grass growing in cyclone fence around Sunshine. (Please try to dig out as much of the roots as possible. Hackberries should be cut off as deep below ground level as possible.)
4. I will be holding an orientation for our expanding battery powered mower and trimmer equipment on Saturday, August 14 from 9:00-10:00. Please contact VP Steve Camp (campinthegarden@yahoo.com) for info, or just show up at the southern end of the tool shed.

TSBVI:

1. 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.)
2. Mowing between fence and street along 49th St. and Sunshine Dr. along and 10' inside fence. (Frequent mowing will be needed this timeof year.)
3. Picking up trash in compost area and along fencelines.
4. 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 has 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:

1. Mowing (Please check area around trailer and greenhouses. Frequent mowing will be needed this time of year.)
2. Maintaining common paths. (Gardeners are required to maintain a 2' strip of common paths adjacent to their plot.)
3. Mowing and cleaning up overgrown/messy places in common areas.

Note: TSBVI hour tasks can also count as regular hours.

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Weeder Content

Please submit weekly weeder articles, photos, and recipes by Wednesday to both Co-Editors:
Holly Gilman at hollyjgilman@gmail.com and
Maria Beach at dr.maria.beach@gmail.com

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