May 22: Working on the fence, tilling, adding organic matter and planting!

May 22, 2016

Thank you to all of you who helped to make this week successful!
We've made a great deal of progress to creating our garden.
We've dug trenches and buried the lower fence to protect against burrowers.
We've added the upper fence to protect against deer who might jump into the garden.
We created a garden design and have planted carrots, beets, swiss chard, cucumbers, tomatoes,
zucchini, green beans and scarlett runner beans.

This week the work was hard, but it was fun to work together in the garden.  It made the more difficult tasks easier to accomplish.  Thank you to Daniel and Shira, to David and to Susan, to Ari and Abe , to Vicky and Alex, to Naomi and Ruthy.  (forgive me if I forgot someone in this list!)




Tasks to be done this week and next:  (for all of these we need assistance)
Please let me know if you can assist with any of these by emailing me.

* Plant potatoes (Wednesday at 5:00)
*Plant the center flower/herb garden (Susan responsible for purchasing flowers which we can use for the bimah or kiddush during the summer months. time to be determined)
* Reinforce the fence on the outside by tamping down the soil and possibly adding more soil. (anytime this week...if someone has an hour, please let me know...this is essential work to protect the plants.)
*Plant one more area of the garden (possibly kale or more tomatoes or onions  Wednesday at 5:00).
* Purchase salt marsh hay  (leann will purchase)
* mulch the gardened areas with salt marsh hay  (Wednesday at 5:00...can you come?)
* work on a good system for irrigation  (Susan will bring more hoses...need a good plan...and help!)

Wish list
I am looking for someone in this group or in the congregation to paint a panel for our door or create a sign on a pole for the center of our flower garden identifying it as Gan Yarok.

Please volunteer if you can.

Once this important work is done we can relax a little bit and begin to do regular upkeep and care, which I will update you on later.

We're all going to work together to make this into a wonderful garden!

Leann