From the Registrar: May 18, 2022

 Hello Gardeners,   

 

Contact information: Please make sure that all the gardeners of your plot are getting news and updates from the gardens. It’s just fine to have other people help with your plot, but I’d like to make sure that all information reaches everyone that regularly gardens. If you’d like to add anyone to the email list, please let me know. If you are the principal gardener but someone else often gardens, please consider adding them as a secondary gardener. 

 

Warm weather plant sale reminder: Scott Williams, from Garden to Be, will be holding his warm weather plant sale at Eagle Heights Gardens this Sunday May 22nd from 10 AM-1 pm. He will set up near the shed. Scott accepts CASH, CHECK, or VENMO (checks payable to “Garden to Be”, and Venmo handle @Scott-Williams-531).  

 
 

He'll have: tomatoes, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cucumbers, zucchini, basil, winter squash, pumpkins, melons, peppers, eggplants, head lettuce, salad mix packs, cilantro, thyme, sage, and more. Prices will be the same as his past sale: Single pots $2.50 each and 4 packs $2.50 each. 

 
 

Garden juries: Garden juries will begin in June. Juries consist of small groups of gardeners who are assigned to walk through areas of the gardens and report to the registrar about plots that appear weedy or abandoned (or especially nice). There will be five juries at Eagle Heights and one at University Houses, with three gardeners on each jury.   

 
 

If you’re interested in being on a garden jury, please let me know. Spots will be assigned in the order that people reply. Each jury will meet three times total: in June, July, and August. Juries will work together to coordinate a meeting each month and turn in their reports. To be consistent with contacting gardeners after the results are in, I’m asking that all juries turn in their reports by the 20th of each month. Being on a garden jury for the season counts as a workday. 

 
 

This year we’re adding the responsibility of a “tool jury” to the garden jury duties. At the time that they walk through the gardens, juries will retrieve communal tools that have been left in plots and make notes about tools and carts by the sheds that need attention. 

 

Thanks, and happy gardening,  

Lily