Gan Yarok update for June 21, 2016

A quick garden update for everyone.

The garden is looking good! The weather has been good with warm temperatures....perhaps not enough rain, but our participants have been good about watering!

Some highlights right now:

• We have a few little strawberries!
• We have our first little zucchini and cucumber!
• The potato plants are getting taller and the onions are looking stronger!

The fence is doing its work and thankfully we don't have any animal pests.

What needs to be done ....we need a bit of help if you have time.

1. Weeding
2. Caging tomato plants
3. Attaching the pole beans to the fence.
4. Snipping a few flowers on Friday and bringing them to Shaarei, put in a vase for Shabbat morning.

For Friday:  
I'd love to have some of the flowers growing in the garden put into a vase and onto the kiddush table.
I am hoping to do this as often as possible during the summer.

WE NEED MORE SIGN UPS FOR THE GARDEN

There are a number of weeks which are not covered at all.  Please sign up, if you haven't already, or sign up for a second week.  We need the help.
At this point the weeks open are:
7/10-7/15
7/24-7/29
7/31-8/5
8/21-8/26
8/28-9/2
Please email me at leannshamash@gmail.com to sign up....thank you!

DIRECTIONS TO THE GARDEN (from Winchester Street)
Follow Winchester Street as though you are going to the JCC.  After approximately 1/2 mile you will pass a golf course (on your left and right). Directly after the golf course you will see a white house on your right.  After the white house you will see the entrance to Nahanton Park.
Enter the park and follow the road approximately 1000 feet down the hill until you come to the first parking lot which will be on your left.  Opposite the parking lot you will see a dirt road on your right. Take this dirt road and take a left at the end of the road (the road is rough, so proceed with caution).  Follow this dirt road for approximately 500 feet and take a left onto "the road" (this road is more like a path) which runs parallel to the gardens. Park on the left of this road.
Once you have gotten out of the car, please continue to follow this road as it swings around the garden.  You will see a clearing/parking space on the right.  Our garden is located just to the left of this parking space.  There are a few orange rugs on the left of the garden which are covering poison ivy.  If you get lost you can contact me at 617-650-3029 and I will do my best to guide you.

ACCESSING THE HOSE DIRECTIONS

We have a watering hose in the garden which is connected to a central water pipe.  To access the water pipe simply follow our hose out of the garden and follow it until you arrive at the water source.  Attach our hose, which is labeled "Shaarei" and turn the water on.  Make sure to turn the water off after you are finished watering.

TO ENTER AND EXIT THE GARDEN

Just to repeat that we don't have a real door at Gan Yarok, but our improvised door is very secure and working very well.  To open the door simply untie the twine you see at the top of the entry door.  Pull the door diagonally to your left and rest the wire door on the ground. Watch your step as you climb over the bottom of the door and into the garden.  To close the door simply reattach and tie the twine so that the door closes tight from top to bottom.

                                                     Scarlet Runner Beans

                                                      First zucchini of the season

                                                      Swiss Chard

Potato Plant