3/3/17

In the garden Saturday March 4

Preparing for the garden season tomorrow!

Morning - around 10 am - cleaning and tidying up behind the driers to make tools and other garden tricks available to the shareholders who want to try their green thumb in the back or front yard.

Last year's compost
At 1:00pm we'll sieve the ripe compost, store it away and finally make the tumbler available for new kitchen scraps!

Come say hello! and remember...: your contribution can be simply a warm cup of tea or coffee to share with the others 😉

2/27/17

RIDE NEEDED

Hi passionate and lukewarm garden lovers!
We need some items for the new season. The following best quality/price ratio items won't be shipped to us:

True Temper 6-cu ft Steel Wheelbarrow (1); 

Sta-Green 30-lb Organic Garden Lime (1); 

Scotts 5,000-sq ft Green Max Lawn Fertilizer (3)

Who can pick them up?

The closest Lowe's is located at Kings Plaza (Flatbush and Ave U), about 6 miles from here. 

Store hours 6:00am - 10:00pm Mon-Sat; 8:00am - 9:00pm Sun.

For more details, please email 1710garden@gmail.com. 

Thank you

 

 

 

2/25/17

Time to enjoy our precious outdoor space

Hello Garden lovers, the unseasonably warm weather is an invitation to take care of our garden, so that we can enjoy with our family, friends and shareholders.
Here's a possible to-do list of upcoming projects:



SIEVE MATURE COMPOST - in a week/ten days. It takes about 1, 1/2 hour


OPEN TUMBLER TO NEW KITCHEN SCRAPS - the same day we empty the tumbler of the mature compost

MAKE A LASTING "OPEN" SIGN to put onto the compost bin and PRINT A FEW FLYERS to inform all the shareholders about the new compost status. We'll eventually need a new "CLOSED" sign as well. The "OPEN" flyers should be ready by the time our tumbler is 'accepting' fresh fuel.

SPREAD COMPOST IN BEDS – to fertilize them. It takes about 45 minutes

PLANT GRASS IN HELL STRIPS (the strips of grass along Avenue H and E18th street sidewalks. We need to turn over the dirt, spread compost, seed grass, make and install a small protective fence to prevent people from treading on the new seedlings. Water it). This project might take about three hours, plus the watering time; the more we are the less it'll take

FURNITURE AND SUN SHADE OUT About 1hour including the mounting of the sunshade

BRING TIMERS AND SPRINKLERS OUT AND SET THEM UP About an hour

BACKYARD CLEAN UP Sweeping leaves, etc, tidying, planning, BBQ out. Depending on how many people it can take around 2 hours

ORGANIZE A CAR TO GET FREE MULCH Usually from Greenwood Cemetery. An hour

PLAN OUR NEXT GARDEN SALE 

PLAN A GARDEN PARTY 

I am going to order a few items we need to make our gardening experience easier! Looking forward to seeing you all downstairs. 

2/16/17

Winter garden poem

Winter garden

 
Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.
Translated by Robert Hass

12/23/16

COMPOST IS RESTING

Please do not add anything to the compost bin. 

The good bacteria are now doing the maturing job.
Happy winter to all the good bacteria!