Monday, October 11, 2010

Dundee Community Garden Final Harvest and Fall Clean-Up

FINAL HARVEST NIGHT TONIGHT AT 6:00:  This is our last Monday night harvest night to pick produce for Together's food pantry.  Join us if you can!   

FALL CLEAN-UP SUNDAY OCT. 17, 1-4 P.M.  We will need lots of help digging up the sweet potatoes and cleaning out the community beds, so bring shovels and garden tools for the fall clean-up.  You'll also want to bring a yard waste bag for cleaning out your own plot.  We plan to have a trailer there to collect the yard waste bags.  

Note: if you clean out your own plot before Oct. 17, leave the yard waste bag in your plot and we'll load it on the trailer on Oct. 17.  If you clean out your plot after Oct. 17, you will need to dispose of your own yard waste bag.

Plots must be cleaned out before you can sign up for a plot for the 2011 season!  Please have all plots cleaned out by Nov. 1.

We will also need volunteers to help store the canna bulbs over the winter.

FREE RASPBERRY BUSHES  We're planning to dig up the raspberry bushes this fall, as they became un-manageable, so please feel free to dig out a raspberry bush to transplant to your own garden!   Dig one up at any time, or we'll try to get them all dug up on  Oct. 17.

FREE CORN STALKS available at the fall clean-up-- for your fall decorating!

FREE CANNAS available at the fall clean-up.  We'll have lots of extras to give away!

END OF YEAR SURVEY   All garden members, please fill out the end-of-year survey at our fall clean-up Oct. 17.  Your feedback is important!

2011 PLOT RESERVATIONS  Current members may reserve their same plot for the 2012 gardening season.  We are testing out a two-tier system next year:  $30 for a regular plot, $20 for members who plan to contribute at least eight hours on our community work-nights.  Look for the reservation forms at the fall clean-up Oct. 17.

VOLUNTEER HOURS CHART: Check out the chart posted on the large white water container.  If you've volunteered some hours  that have not been recorded, please update the chart to reflect your hours.  If you want to volunteer at a time other than a work night, the beds can always use weeding and dead-heading. Each garden member is expected to contribute eight hours working in the community plots over the course of the gardening season.    

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