Updates on Plots and Pics

Hi all, please welcome four new gardeners to our community: Sarah Mullins, Erin Rowland, Susan Mershon, and Sarah Holden.

Welcome! Also: Sheila has asked that anyone interested in helping her clear and plant plots should contact her. Since I don't want to publish her phone number here, you can reach her through the Squirrel Brand list serv. She is going to be gardening on Monday between four and five and probably on Wednesday and Thursday. She plans to construct a rectangular structure for beans, morning glories, or nastiriums!

Linda

Check out the Video

Check out this community-based video/TV that a person made of our community garden!

It's very nice to see the garden in April--with those gorgeous red tulips...

http://cctvcambridge.org/node/2943/play

Take care all,

Linda

Time to Reassign some Plots

Hi all,

Dan has asked for help re-assigning plots. Here is the lowdown. The waitlist is here:

1 Rowland, Erin 03/21/2008
2 Pollack, Robert 04/04/2008
3 Mershon, Susan 04/14/2008
4 Mullins, Sarah 04/14/2008
5 Gross, Daniel 04/14/2008
6 Zether, Leila Hooper 04/14/2008
7 Fountain, Clayton 04/14/2008
8 Stewart, Emily 04/14/2008
9 Cosel, Gabrielle 04/21/2008
10 Appapillai, Anjuli 04/24/2008
11 Parks, Shaheen 04/24/2008
12 Sterrett, Hatch 05/22/2008
13 Kiely, Tim 05/22/2008

I am ready to assign two immediately and am waiting to contact two others about three remaining plots.

Erin will be assigned to plot #28 and Susan Mershon to plot #29. Plot #30 will go to Sarah Mullins. Note: Robert has asked to be temporarily removed from consideration for a plot.

Erin or Susan, could you email me: romelucca@gmail.com?

Take care, Linda

ways to spend garden fees...

1. apply garden fees to Area 4 grant which is good for $400 towards community building project. the only caveat is we need to contribute 25% matching funds.

2. seeds of change offers free seeds. these seeds can be donated to the community groups or used to grown around the perimeter of the garden as flowers. all we need to do is pay for the shipping costs.

3. buy a water can.

4. allocate some funds for administrative costs, such as: postage for mailings, buying materials to mark off plot boundaries, etc.

The Sunflower Project

Hi all,

Dan had the great idea to line the perimeter of the garden with sunflowers...I have been sprinkling seeds in, and I know James has been too. If anyone feels like donating some seeds, we could use even more. Some of the first sunflower seedlings are peeking out from under the mulch and soil around the perimeter of the fence, too, so if you are weeding that area, be on the lookout for them...

If the spirit moves you, sprinkle some out there, and let's see what happens! We have some Italian sunflowers that I put in there, a mixture of nice oranges, and some straight yellows...Should be interesting to see what grows.

Before...

I thought it would be fun to post some early season shots of folks' plots and then snap pictures later in the season...I'll try to make the rounds and get some more early season shots tomorrow.

Do you recognize the garden now?