Sunshine Community Gardens

16 September, 2021

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In this Issue:

• Save the Date: All-Gardeners Meeting
• Compost Tea this Weekend
• Khaki Weed Workdays
• Garden Tasks for Service Hours

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Save the Date: All-Gardeners Meeting

Mark Your Calendar - All-Gardeners Meeting Tuesday 9/28

The next quarterly All-Gardeners meeting will be Tuesday, 9/28, 7:00p. The meeting will be via Zoom and the Zoom link will be sent out via an email blast the day before the meeting. The agenda will include a couple of important items:

1. Ratification of a nonsubstantive reformatting of the site rules which the board has adopted. A copy will be posted on website.
2. Discussion of modification of the current service hours system. Even considering the Covid pandemic, important tasks either are not getting done timely or being done by a small group of gardeners. It appears the current service hour system would benefit from some modification. Among the modifications the board is evaluating is making a portion (2-3 hours) of regular service hours "must-work/no-pay hours". While there would be grace period to complete "must-work/no-pay hours," a member's failure to work these hours would ultimately result in termination of membership.

So mark your calendar and join your fellow Sunshine gardeners for a discussion of this important topic.

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Compost Tea this Weekend

Aerobic Compost Tea will be available to gardeners this weekend.

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Khaki Weed Workdays September 18 and 25

Ila Flavey asks you to "Come join me (and other gardeners, I hope) in the meditative practice of pulling out Khaki weed!" This will take place on the next two Saturdays from 9-12 am.

Khaki weed is very easy to identify now because it is covered with sticker burrs. These burrs contain the seed heads. Khaki weed grows like a flat mat that can be carefully lifted with its attached seeds, collected in a plastic bucket and thrown in the dumpster.

Seize this wonderful opportunity to welcome Fall and attempt to reduce the spread of this extremely noxious weed.

Additionally, you will gain expertise in identifying this weed. Starting area will be by the office trailer.

You need gloves and a paint scraper or flat knife and a container to hold the khaki weed before you dump it in the dumpster.

Hope to see you Saturday Morning!

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Needed Service Hour Tasks - Thursday, 15 September, 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).
   We will be having a workday Saturday 9/18 and Saturday 9/25 to specifically address this problem. 9:00 until 12
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. Mowing and maintaining perimeter fence line inside and out.

TSVBI:

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). Mowing between fence and street along 49th St. and Sunshine Dr. along and 10' inside fence. (Frequent mowing will be needed this time of year.)
2. Picking up trash in compost area and along fence lines.

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.
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 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.)

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

The speed limit in the garden is 3 mph!

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