DCG Harvest on Sat./ Vigilance Needed

Hello Dundee Community Garden Members and Friends,  

Thanks to everyone who helped plant the sweet potatoes last Saturday.  Not sure how many of them are going to make it... but they're planted!   Also thanks to the people who have been bring grass clippings-- mulching is coming along nicely.  Remember to mulch your own beds so that you'll need to water less!

Saturday Work Day/ Harvest Time Regular weekly Saturday morning work days have started-- come when you can between 9-12.  We've been harvesting quite a bit of greens for the Underwood Tower, and our flower beds need a lot of weeding!  Gift certificate drawings will be held weekly--you must be present win! 

Garden Thieves on the prowl: please be vigilant  As you may have read in the World-Herald, two gardens have had plants stolen in the past week. http://www.omaha.com/article/20120531/NEWS97/120539940#garden-thieves-strike-again   http://www.omaha.com/article/20120529/NEWS97/705299921   From the paper it sounds as if donations have come flooding in to the Sherman Community Garden, and the same will probably happen with City Sprouts, but please feel free to donate to those two gardens if you have extras!  It may be beneficial that our location at the Dundee Community Garden is so public, making us less of an easy target, but please keep an eye out when you're in the neighborhood and be vigilant-- these vegetable thefts could happen to any garden, including ours!

Extra Vegetable Starts needed for Refugee Garden:   Additionally, the Yates Community Center for Refugees is looking for seeds and starter plants for vegetables for their new community garden, which they will be planting next week on June 6.  If you've got extras to pass along, please bring to our work day this Saturday, or contact Mary at megreen4@cox.net

AND SOME REMINDERS:

Ice Cream Social Sat. June 16, 3-5 p.m.  Mark your calendars now-- more information coming!

Grass Clippings Still Needed:  as always, we can use grass clippings throughout the season to mulch our flower and vegetable beds.  

Reminder Note about Squash and Cucumbers:  Last year our squash crop throughout the garden was DECIMATED by the squash bug, and we also had terrible problems with the cucumber beetle.  We're going try to control these pests by restricting the plants they love, so we are recommending that no squash or cucumbers get planted at DCG this year.  If you do choose to plant these crops, please keep a close eye on them and remove right away if the bugs take over-- and if we find infested plants, we'll have to pull them out. 

COMMUNITY EVENTS:

Subject: Beehive Presentation @ Hands To Harvest!

 

Hi! I'm with the Hands to Harvest community garden.

 

As you may not be aware, we have recently begun hosting a beehive in our garden. This is working out really well and has some fantastic benefits.

 

First, according to The Omaha Bee Club, there are beekeepers all over the city who need a location for their hives and what better place for them than a community garden? You get your plots pollinated, you get to help out a local beekeeper, and best of all, you get to purchase local, organic honey that you actually helped create. How often does anybody get to do that?

 

We would like to share this experience with other community gardens, so we are hosting a presentation. Tony Sandoval, President of the Omaha Bee Club, will be talking to us about the benefits of hosting a beehive and answering questions. We are inviting community garden members hoping they will attend this presentation and decide to host a beehive as well.

 

 

Location: Hands to Harvest Community Garden

            1113 S. 31^st St, Omaha

 

Date: Monday, June 11 starting at 5:30 PM

 

Would you please distribute this invitation to the garden networks? No RSVP is necessary.