Sunshine Community Gardens

2 December, 2021

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• All Gardeners Meeting - 12/14
• Nancy Seibert Memorial - 12/5
• Avoid Sticker Shock - Do Your Service Hours
• TSBVI To Replace Sunshine Gardens Fence
• What is Jimmie Doing?
• Garden Tasks for This Week
• Gardening Advice for December

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All-Gardener's Meeting -- Tuesday 12/14, 7:00 pm

Mark your calendars - The quarterly All-Gardeners meeting will be Tuesday, December 14, at 7:00pm. The meeting will again be via Zoom. More information about the agenda will be in next week's Weeder.

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Nancy Seibert Memorial December 5

A memorial and celebration of Nancy Seibert's life will be held at Sunshine Community Garden at 2 pm on Sunday, December 5, 2021. Please join us in remembering her.

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Avoid Sticker Shock - Work Required Service Hours

Article by Jim Willmann:

The 2021 Spring and Fall service hour seasons have been combined and gardeners must work all the combined hours by December 31st - only 28 days away. The bill for unworked spring and fall hours may create sticker shock for gardeners not working their required hours - as much as $300 for full plot gardeners and $220 for half or quarter plot gardeners. Any bill for unworked hours must be paid before a gardener can renew membership for Spring 2022. Gardeners should check the Green Binder on SCG website (Sunshine Community Gardens) to verify the hours worked and recorded.

Gardeners who believe they may qualify for a waiver for all or part of their 2021 service hours, e.g., because of a health condition should contact their zone coordinator to discuss. Taking Covid 19 precautions by vulnerable gardeners can be considered in granting waivers.

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TSBVI to Replace Sunshine Gardens' Fence

Article by Jim Willmann

As part of replacing the fence around its entire campus, TSBVI will replace Sunshine's perimeter fence along Sunshine Dr. and 49th St. The replacement fence will be an 8' black coated, chain link fence. The exact date of when the replacement will happen has not been set but is expected to be around March. As part of replacing the fence, Sunshine will need to remove all vegetation, including vines, from the existing fence. We have discovered that most of the vegetation can be removed with a weed trimmer which will make the task easier. But some manual removal of vines will still be required - particularly removing stems and roots along bottom of fence. Workdays in December and January will most likely be devoted in large part to this task. The interior fences between Sunshine and TSBVI will not be replaced.

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What is Jimmie Doing?

Article and Photo by Walter Kuihl

Have you seen Jimmie Schneider wandering around Sunshine Garden with a bucket in one hand and dragging a red object on the end of a string with the other hand? Turns out the red object is not a pull-toy, it is a magnet.

By dragging this magnet along Sunshine roads and pathways, Jimmie has recovered many nails and other sharp metal objects. The picture to the right shows a small amount of the objects recovered.

Thank you Jimmie! I'm sure you have prevented a few flat tires.

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Garden Tasks

Thursday, 2 December, 2021

Priority (Tasks specifically needed):

1. Workday Saturday 12/11/2021 09:00 - 12:00
   • A hearty Thank You to those who have participated in our last 5 work days, the next workday will be Saturday 11 December. We are going to turn our focus to the perimeter fence line, which needs to be cleared of all vegetation out to 3' on both sides to make way for our New Fence!
     
     There will be other tasks available, depending on how many folks show up.
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.
4. Sunshine Community Garden was fined a few weeks ago for the dumpster being over filled. Please help us to avoid this by following a few simple guidelines.
   1. Fill the dumpster from the back (under the hinges) to the front. If you put stuff in the front, it tends to stay there.
   2. If you think the dumpster is full, contact me (Steve Camp, I'm there a lot) or Randy Thompson. We can usually compact stuff to make more space.
   3. Follow the rules regarding what goes into the dumpster and what does not, there's signage close by.
   4. If the dumpster actually does get full before pick up day, I'm working on finding a spot where we can store a reasonable overage, to be loaded after the dumpster is emptied.
   5. If you're done with your project, please close the lids.

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).
2. 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.)
3. Picking up trash in compost area and along fence lines.

Regular:

1. Mowing (Please check area around trailer and greenhouses.
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.

Slow Down..You're on Garden Time! Enjoy!

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Gardening Advice for December

Ila Falvey submits this article for December Gardening

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