Garden sale time...

Hi,

It's time for another Garden Sale !!
Our beautiful garden needs money for: fertilizer, plants, flowers, some tools like hoses, sprinklers, timers, rakes, a new compost tumbler, a new sun-umbrella etc. The labor is free (us).

Here's how it works:
   - you come downstairs with anything you don't want in your home that is still in good enough shape for somebody else to use, a table, and sell it yourself and donate a 20% of your total to the garden fund

or
   - you donate your stuff to the garden sale and somebody else will take care of selling it.

For it to happen, we need:

people who commit to help with it, the more we are the less burden on everyone. This is what we usually do:

Before the sale

advertise: 

1. put out signs in and around the building
2. post on local online networks starting around three weeks in advance and repeating once a week  until the day of

The day of sale

1. sort & price donations
2. arrive early on sale day to set up tables - be prepared with small dollar bills and quarters
3. work the sale
4. pack up & clean up
5. pick up signs

Sundays are the best days for foot traffic. 
Possible dates: June 4, June 11, June 18.

Think about it and get back to us by the week of May 8th.

Thanks

Garden day success

We swept, raked, pulled bamboo shoots out, brought out tables, chairs, BBQ grills, put up the sun sail and...

Re: compost tumbling

Date 04-25-2017          Completed Janet   Leaving town 6AM tomorrow so have completed task today

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Garden Day April 30

Sunday April 30 - at 10:00am

Let's get in the garden to
- clean it
- put our furniture out, including our sunshade
- spread compost around
- fertilize where needed
- plant and or transplant
- plan our next steps:
     - hellstrips, social events...


Bring gloves, wear hats and sunscreen...

See you all there!

Celebrate Earth Day by Composting

COMPOST BIN IS OPEN

NO MEAT, BONES, CHEESE OR CAT LITTER

PLEASE CHOP YOUR KITCHEN SCRAPS A BIT SO THEY DECOMPOSE MORE QUICKLY

Hell-Strips material available

Sam and Mike (thanks, Mike, for the use of your car) drove to Greenwood Cemetery to gather mulch and to Lowe's to buy fencing and some paving stones! Now we're all set.

Hell-strips are waiting for 1710 people to express their creativity!

Some people did this...

Bring your children or your inner child...

A personal mini garden?

Coming home after a day out is really sad for our eyes to fall on our dried up hell strips (the patches of dirt along the edge of the sidewalk).

Planning to 'green up' them and came up with this suggestion:
      
  - we fence portions of the strips, leaving passages for people who get out of their cars;
         -  the fenced areas will be given out to 'adoption' to whoever wants to grow their little green spot with whatever plants and decorations they want            

Would you be interested in playing with and being responsible for some personal garden? A great project for everybody!

If yes, for this to happen we need:

from Lowes or Home Depot - ride needed before the last weekend of April.
       - maybe more fertilizer (to decide- we have a lot of good compost, that might do the trick)
       - cheap fence and sticks

Also, for the garden in general we need
       - free mulch: we can get it at the Greenwood Cemetery. A ride is necessary.

Reply with comments. Thank you

Re: compost tumbling

Date 04-10-2017          Claudia

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Garden day April 30

Spring is obviously here! 

Let's get in the garden to
- clean it
- put our furniture out, including our sunshade
- spread compost around
- fertilize where needed
- plant and or transplant
- plan our next steps:
     - hellstrips, social events...

Sunday April 30 - at 10:00am
Bring gloves, wear hats and sunscreen...

See you all there!

Tumbling schedule

Claudia on Mondays 
Janet on Wednesdays 
Pauline on weekends

Re: compost tumbling

Date 04-02-2017          Completed Sam   still wet

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Compost still needs help - DO NOT ADD FRESH SCRAPS

Today we tumbled the compost and realized it is not totally ready yet: it seems it needs some browns (carbon). We sieved whatever could go through the sieve and put back the unripe part in the tumbler with some old dry leaves and some wet ones.

In order to have this batch ready in about three weeks, we need to tumble it about 3 times a week.
It only takes 5 minutes: you spin the tumbler 2/3 times in one direction and the same in the other direction making sure the lid is tightly closed and not holding on to it when tumbling.

C1 and A4 are already doing it.

Could anybody chip in some extra time? Please let me know so that we can make a calendar and have a nice flow.

In the meantime, please do not add any fresh scraps to the tumbler.
Thanks