Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello DCG Members and Friends,

Thanks to everyone who walked with us in the Dundee Day Parade last weekend, and helped at our booth!  It was a beautiful day and we had a great time!  Pictures coming soon on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/DundeeGarden

WEEKLY WORK NIGHT/ HARVEST NIGHT TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) AT 7 P.M.    The residents of the Underwood Tower have really appreciated the weekly grocery cart we bring over that is full of fresh veggies.  Come help harvest!  And we need to spruce up the garden to make it look its best for tours this weekend! (see below)

NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) AT 7 P.M.   Now is peak picking and swapping season! We had two people from the neighborhood (non-garden members ) show up last week wanting to trade produce, and it's kind of fun to go home with something new, that you didn't grow!  Come join us!

OMAHA AGRI-FAIR COMMUNITY GARDENS TOUR SEPT. 3 & 4 (LABOR DAY WEEKEND)  Celebrate urban agriculture by touring local community gardens.  Our garden will be one of the stops on the tour.   Other gardens include Gifford Park, City Sprouts, NorthStar, and more.  Gardens will have volunteers to give free tours on Saturday from 10-4, or Sunday 12-4, or both days.  (Dundee Community Garden will have volunteers Sunday only.)  More information at bensonplantrescue.org/  (Note: tours are now free!) 

PLEASE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN YOUR PLOT   Be considerate of other plot owners and keep the weed seeds down-- just toss the weeds in the compost bins.  Let's keep the plots looking good!

FREE OMA-GROW  We have some Oma-Grow in the NE corner of the garden-- help yourself if you can use any extra!

Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello DCG Members and Friends,

NO WORK NIGHT THIS WEDNESDAY!   We're canceling Wednesday's work night so we can pick produce on FRIDAY to sell at our Dundee Day table.  

HARVEST EVENING THIS FRI. AUG. 26, 4:30-5:30.  If you're available to help pick, please join us!  And let us know if we can pick produce from your plot to sell on Saturday!

DUNDEE DAY SAT. AUG. 27:

PARADE :  We'd love to have a big group walk with us, and our giant carrot, in the Dundee Day Parade!  Meet at the Brownell-Talbot parking lot on Underwood Ave. between 10 and 10:15 a.m.  The parade starts at 10:30, and ends up at 50th & Underwood.  Sign up here at  sign up form,   or on the sheet at the garden.

TABLE: We'll have a table at Dundee Day from 9-2 selling garden produce and flowers.  If you can help staff our table with a one-hour shift, sign up here at  sign up form,  or on the sheet at the garden.  BAGS NEEDED:  please bring plastic bags, or re-usable cloth bags that you no longer want, for using at our table.  Muffins provided to all volunteers!

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OTHER INFORMATION/ COMMUNITY EVENTS: 

Composting workshop 

Thurs. Sept. 8, 7-8 p.m. 

$5

It is an hour that evening and will introduce how to get started with composting.  I'll attach the flyer for the class.   
Bobbi Holm
Extension Educator-Urban Environment 
UNL Extension in Douglas and Sarpy Counties
8015 W. Center Road
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 444-7875
bholm2@unl.edu

Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello DCG Members and Friends,

WEEKLY WORK NIGHTS  WEDNESDAYS AT 7 P.M.

We always need more people!  Come help us pick for the Underwood Tower.  And we've got lots of volunteer projects that need attention!   

Can't come on Wednesday nights for your volunteer work hours?  See next item.

NEW BULLETIN/ DRY ERASE BOARD, & VOLUNTEER WORK HOURS   You may have noticed our new bulletin/dry erase board at the back of the garden.  We'll be posting chores that volunteers can do on the board, so any time you're at the garden and want to contribute to your volunteer hours, check the board and see what needs to be done!  And remember to record you volunteer hours on the posted log sheet.  We give a huge thank-you to carpenter and neighborhood angel Jim Saville for completing this project!  

 

THE WEEDS ARE TAKING OVER!  Please be courteous of your fellow gardeners, and do not let weeds take over your plot and spread their seeds throughout the garden!  All gardeners are responsible for keeping the weeds out of their individual plots.   And, from our DCG Guidelines:   If my plot becomes unkempt, I understand I will be given two weeks notice to clean it up.  At that time, it will be reassigned or tilled in.

Similarly, you need to pull diseased and insect-infested plants out of your plot so they don't spread to others.  See Composting below for disposal information.

COMPOSTING NOTES: Most weeds and other plant matter should be tossed in the compost bins.  Two exceptions are:

1) Diseased / insect infested plants.  The diseases can stay alive in the compost, and so any plants with diseases such as blight, leaf spot, fungus, etc, or with insect infestations, should be tossed in the yard waste bags and put out with the city's yard waste.  DO NOT PLACE THEM IN OUR COMPOST BIN or the diseases/ insects will get spread more widely in the garden!  Yard wast bags for diseased plants can be found in the plastic tub near the bulletin board.

2) Sticks do not decompose fast enough for our compost, and make turning the compost more difficult, so please put sticks in the bucket by the compost bins, not in with the compost.  

NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP WEDNESDAYS AT 7 P.M.  Let's get swapping!  Bring some extra produce, or any food items, to swap with others!  

GARDENING TIP OF THE WEEK from master gardener Rebecca Reagan:  It is not too late to plan a fall garden  Here are some plants that do well in the cooler temperatures: arugula, beets, collards , kale,  lettuce , peas, radishes, , spinach, Swiss chard, turnips.  Broccoli , cabbage and  cauliflower are good candidates;  it is too late to start them from seeds, so look for seedlings (transplants) at garden stores.    Good reference---http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1343/build/g1343.pdf

DUNDEE DAY SAT. AUG. 27   We'll have a table at Dundee Day from 9-2 to sell garden produce and flowers, and we'll be marching in the parade that starts at 10:30. Watch for sign-up opportunities!  All members and friends welcome to walk in the parade with the giant carrot, or help staff our table.

GRASS CLIPPINGS STILL NEEDED:  We've been getting some clippings, but can always use more!  Please spread any clippings you bring up to any of our community plots.  Right now the squash by the alley are in greatest need of more mulch.

OTHER INFORMATION/ EVENTS: 

Article from DishOmaha on freezing your summer harvest for later savoring:

http://www.dishomaha.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=243:eating-seasonally-savoring-and-saving-summer&catid=65:rotating-features

Canning Classes in August at Douglas County Extension Office:  

see p.7 of the link below

http://douglas-sarpy.unl.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=fdda3a45-c539-49e7-ba11-7755a5de1211&groupId=235778&.pdf

Composting workshop 

Thurs. Sept. 8, 7-8 p.m. 

$5

It is an hour that evening and will introduce how to get started with composting.  I'll attach the flyer for the class.   Bobbi Holm
Extension Educator-Urban Environment
UNL Extension in Douglas and Sarpy Counties
8015 W. Center Road
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 444-7875
bholm2@unl.edu

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