Dundee Community Garden this Week

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,

Hope you can join us for our workshop (open to all) and work-day this weekend!  See below.

Gardening Tips of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)

1. Finish your planting.   It is now warm enough to get your tomatoes, peppers and other warm season vegetables into the ground. 

2. Mulch.  After the seedlings appear, mulch your bed.  Mulching will help keep weeds down, cool the soil, and preserve moisture during hot weather.  It is easy to do: use chemical-free grass clippings, letting them dry a bit before using, or straw. You could also use newspaper, shredded or several sheets placed around your plants.  Make sure you wet the newspaper down after placement so it doesn't blow away. Adding a little dirt or straw over the top of the paper will also help keep it in your plot and not in the neighborhood.  

Need Mulch for the Community Beds:  Our garden needs grass clippings for mulch!  If you have grass clippings that you can donate, please bring them up to the garden.  Our newly-planted flowers in the beds along Underwood and 49th Streets are in desperate need of mulch-- and we won't have to water every day if we can get some good mulch down.

Help Mowing:  We're still looking for a third volunteer to help us keep up on the mowing.

Watering:  Please remember that rain water is the best water to use on your garden plot.  You can get rain water out of the blue rain barrels or the "white whale" large water container. 

Coming in early June:  Shed-Raising Party.  We'll get a crew together to build a covered tool rack/sign board.  If you are handy with tools and would like to help build the shed, contact Curt Hickman at curt3@cox.net

Sunday June 12  Ice Cream Social, 3-5 p.m.  Ice cream sundaes and great toppings for $1.  Also we'll be painting stakes to mark your garden plot. 

COMMUNITY EVENTS:

Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners.  The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18.  Next workshop is May 21 on “What Vegetables Should I Plant and When?” See attachment for full schedule.