Dear Gardeners,
Well after a dry spell, we finally got a good rain (two in fact) and the plants seem very happy. Hope you are getting lots to harvest and enjoying the season. The plants like that hot humid weather even if it makes us uncomfortable and the gardens are really producing.
This Saturday, August 22, there will be a workday at Eagle Heights gardens from 8 am to 11 am to work in the weed pile area and fix up the sandboxes. Please reply if you would like to work and I'll get you more information.
The garden committee has also extended the deadline to submit a statement of interest for the co-chairs positions until Sept. 3. We'll be voting on this at our September meeting and please consider contributing to make the gardens a better place. More information is available on the Registrar's archive for July 29 on the website.
I need to ask your help with a particular matter : WEEDS and Plant debris. . We have a designated area for weeds at the start of the A row with rock boundaries. Please don't put your weeds in the dumpster, or the paths or the leaf piles or the common areas or the Preserve. Please stop anyone that you see putting vegetable matter anywhere but the weed pile area. We all have responsibility for keeping the order in the gardens and we need your help educating everyone about how to do this. The workday crews and field staff who have to clean up after the mistakes will thank you as well as all the rest of the gardeners.
The sad news is that the cranes lost their chick this year (unknown how) but they have been coming up to amuse us and a mink has been sighted in the woods just above University Houses gardens. Hummingbirds are very busy gaining weight before the long flights south. Enjoy the basil and tomato sandwiches, the tomatillo/pepper salsa, the cucumber salads, eggplant casseroles and the continuing squash and green beans! Thank the soil and the sun and your hard work for the feast.
Gretel, Garden Registrar
Well after a dry spell, we finally got a good rain (two in fact) and the plants seem very happy. Hope you are getting lots to harvest and enjoying the season. The plants like that hot humid weather even if it makes us uncomfortable and the gardens are really producing.
This Saturday, August 22, there will be a workday at Eagle Heights gardens from 8 am to 11 am to work in the weed pile area and fix up the sandboxes. Please reply if you would like to work and I'll get you more information.
The garden committee has also extended the deadline to submit a statement of interest for the co-chairs positions until Sept. 3. We'll be voting on this at our September meeting and please consider contributing to make the gardens a better place. More information is available on the Registrar's archive for July 29 on the website.
I need to ask your help with a particular matter : WEEDS and Plant debris. . We have a designated area for weeds at the start of the A row with rock boundaries. Please don't put your weeds in the dumpster, or the paths or the leaf piles or the common areas or the Preserve. Please stop anyone that you see putting vegetable matter anywhere but the weed pile area. We all have responsibility for keeping the order in the gardens and we need your help educating everyone about how to do this. The workday crews and field staff who have to clean up after the mistakes will thank you as well as all the rest of the gardeners.
The sad news is that the cranes lost their chick this year (unknown how) but they have been coming up to amuse us and a mink has been sighted in the woods just above University Houses gardens. Hummingbirds are very busy gaining weight before the long flights south. Enjoy the basil and tomato sandwiches, the tomatillo/pepper salsa, the cucumber salads, eggplant casseroles and the continuing squash and green beans! Thank the soil and the sun and your hard work for the feast.
Gretel, Garden Registrar
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