HARVEST NIGHTS NOW MONDAYS AT 6:00: For these last two weeks we'll be harvesting at 6 p.m. Please join us if you can help pick produce for Together's food pantry, and we always have a need for help with other gardening tasks. As always, bring gloves, scissors, and other gardening tools to help with harvesting and weeding.
FALL CLEAN-UP Sun. 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!
FREE FENCING AND STAKES AVAILABLE: Garden member Carla Hanson has about 40 feet of 3' wire fencing, and about 15 3' metal stakes, available for whoever would like them. If you are interested, contact Carla at 556-8498, or hanson1997@cox.net
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. available at the fall clean-up.
EXTRA PRODUCE ALWAYS ACCEPTED FOR THE FOOD PANTRY! Let us know if we can pick from your plot if you're not coming to the harvest night! And if you have produce that is neglected and very ripe, we'll go ahead and add it to our food pantry box!
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