Wed. June 10
Kids Garden
We worked with Heart of the NE Resource Centre to help with Parent Link's Grow with Us gardening program. Four parents and five kids aged 2-4 came to the garden to plant a plot (beside the garden shed). They will be popping in once in a while to water the plot. One of the parents belongs to the Seventh Day Eventist group who comes to the church on Saturdays and he says he'll water when he comes fo church. The group will be making up a little sign for their patch and it'll be put up on one of the signs Lorna made. They will also harvest and eat the produce as it becomes ready.
This particular patch was dedicated as the melon patch, so the melons will have to be put elsewhere. The melon seeds have sprouted and will probably go in somewhere by the end of next week.
Tomatoes
greengate donated some large tomato plants and these were transplanted into the end of the raspberry bed beside the catnip. We can donate the tomatoes to the Drop-In Centre.
Thurs. June 11
Seedlings
The Calgary Attendance crew came over and planted the cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower seedlings (donated by greengate) over at the Leisure Centre . When these mature, they can be donted to the Calgary Drop-In Centre.
The remaining cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower seedlings were transplanted into the raspberry bed at the back where there was room. There is kale and some broccoli seedlings left for people to take for their plots. Whatever's left will get planted by the week's end in the raspberry plot. We probably won't see much more in the way of vegetable seedling donations from greengate because brassicas are all they have left. There is a chance we might get more brassicas if they don't all sell out.
Keyhole Garden
The mini-keyhole garden got its start today when a few of the Calgary Attendance guys moved over soil from that mound of sod at the back of the hill. Most of the sod has composted down into a lovely looking enriched soil. The "basket" for the centre of the keyhole garden will be put together this weekend. The basket goes in the middle and the sod/soil will be heaped around it in a round hill. Compost and grey/rain water will go into the basket and will feed the plants' root from the inside out. By the end of next week, we hope to have the bed ready for planting.
Sod, Dirt and Rock Piles
The Attendance crew made a start of flattening the dirt pile by the back composter and using the soil to fill in holes and dips in the surrounding area.
The pile of sod has started to be taken down and the soil will be spread around the area. Some of the soil will be used to top up plot number 6 - the one dedicated for the Y-Map program youth. That particular bed needs quite a bit of soil to top it up.
If anyone wants to help themselves to the soil from the pile of sod to top up their plot, they can help themselves.
We also have a little rock pile started in the orchard. The rocks can be used for they keyhole garden.
Watering
We have one volunteer who has signed up to water over there on Tuesdays and we could use another. They were testing the sprinklers and will be doing repairs so soon the watering area will be reduced by a third. The beds that need watering include those that wrap around the library, the beds under the trees across from the library and the patch at the back of the arena.
The same volunteer who will come on Thursdays to water the raspberry patch and orchard. It might be a good idea to set up a list/schedule for volunteers who come to help water the community/charitable donation beds.
Weeding
The rhubarb patch on top of the hill and the raspberry patch were both weeded.
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