Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Plant sale and compost possibility and workdays. May 14th 2014

Dear Gardeners,
Starting to look like a real garden out there with rows of new plants coming up in the ample rain and the trees and bushes leafing out. Many birds are flying past with nest materials.  Look for the northern orioles.  We usually have a couple of nests of these bright orange and black birds on the edges of the Eagle Heights gardens. I've already seen three pairs building nests (hanging woven bags on far branches of trees).  They have a lovely song. Lots of lemon yellow goldfinches around too.
This Sunday, we have the plant sale at Eagle Heights from 11 am to 1 pm. We expect tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and herbs. Check out the list we were given in Jenn's blog on the website. These are organically raised plants and we have been happy with the quality and prices. There is parking on Eagle Heights Drive (marked for gardeners) and the plant sales will be near the shed.
We also hope to have compost, but this is weather dependent. With luck, we will be selling compost from the West Madison Agricultural Station that is made from the barn manure and food waste from campus. Our past deliveries have been great stuff (very professionally and fully composted) and we sell it at cost ($3 for a half-cart load). All sales will be at Eagle Heights from 11 am to 1 pm.
We really need help on a number of tasks so please consider doing your workday soon in this nice weather.  Saturday we will be working on the final bits of the wall-building at Eagle Heights from 2 pm to 5 pm. On Sunday, we need a couple of volunteers to load compost and ferry carts if we have the compost sale. These would be needed from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. We also will work on the wall and plot work on Sunday at 2 pm to 5 pm. If you would like to work one of these opportunities, reply to this message and I'll get you more details. Be sure to let me know which opportunity you are volunteering for.
This is my favorite time of gardening with great promise for the season. I watch gardeners entering the gardens waving to friends. They have jaunty walks and armloads of supplies and then leave (a little less jaunty after the work) but with happy smiles. This weekend promises to be a good one for gardening and hope to see you all at the sales and working in your plots.
Gretel, Garden Registrar

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