Alice!

Just surfing the web and stumbled on a photo of our garden from… last year! It looks so different – what a change in one year.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=598&sid=1082320

Three Happenings

Okay, we did a lot of things in the garden this month. Chronologically speaking,

October 2: Harvested sweet potatoes, sold some at the community market that is independent of that “farmer’s market”.

October 12: YangYi made two benches in the garden as a part of Public Art class. People are welcome to paint it in any way.

October 15: Massive Fall planting of vinter vegitables, harvesting tomatillos and Jeruselum artichokes.

The garden looks different now with all the tilling and planting. Some Speckled Bib lettuces are already leafing. Say, when is the frost?

Seed sowing @ End of September

Today I pulled out grass and most of the fennel in the middle or the garden and sowed seeds of Rainbow Swiss Chard and Speckled Bibs Lettuce. The sun came out in the evening and I took some pictures.

what thunder storm?

What thunderstorm?

This weekend seems like a good time as any to plant some seeds for fall-winter. Does anyone have a plant in mind? We can make an order together.

Right now we have the following seeds:
Oak leaf Lettuce,
Speckled Bibb Lettuce,
Swedish Chard, and
Striped Chioggia Beet.

Since they are here already, I will be out there this Saturday or Sunday, which ever doesn’t rain, at 11AM to plant seeds in one of the plots, maybe the fennel plot or half of the tomato plot. Stop by and chat, do some gardening if you like!

YangYi Chen

p.s. Ah, This garden club website will be tweaked to allow people to contribute and discuss. Let me know of any suggestions.

Oh boy 2008

This website get’s a makeover- and will be updated with juicy news from the garden regularly this fall. I promise

Email February 26, 2006

From this meeting, we have complied a list of seeds to get for the spring season. We are thinking about covering the garden with alfalfa right before the summer vacation as Green Manure.

Also, we are going to the manure run to Greenwell stable on coming Thursday 2:30 PM. here is a map of the trip.

Oh, the point of sending out the seed list is to see if anybody has opinions with the selection. Otherwise I will place them on order tonight 11pm.

Sachem YangYi Chen

Email February 22, 2006

Update: Let’s do the tilling on Sunday along with the meeting instead of Thursday; better weather, more laid back.
I have also contacted a local stable (http://www.greenwellfoundation.org/) where we can get as much manure as we can carry for free. Let’s talk about that at this Sunday meeting also.

Sachem YangYi

Email February 22, 2006

Hello,
Another afternoon of tilling for the other half of the garden! This Thursday 4:30 pm at the garden. This Sunday 1PM, let’s get together at LQ rec room for another meeting; we will talk about “what seeds do you want??” and partitioning the garden. I have not gotten any special request, so Ben and I put together a list of some spring vegetables and flowers for ordering.

The ground is not frozen at all and it’s already the planting time for peas! Yay!
Sachem YangYi

ps. Tucker, please give a go for us to use your tiller if you are busy that time.

Email Feburary 18, 2006

Dear Friends of the Garden:

We will break the soil this Sunday the Eighteenth of February at one o-clock. We will meet at the Lewis Quad Common room first. Tucker will transport the tiller, but we could use any extra tools people have. After we have tilled the soil, we will use string and sticks to partition the plots.

Sincerely,
Sagamore Benjamin Hancock

Email February 14, 2006

Tonight, I went to the SGA funding audit and they seemed fine with the list Benjamin and I made for this semester. They said they will get back to us in 2 weeks or so for final decisions, so hopefully nothing will be cut. Roughly, this is what we asked:

seeds — $35
shovels, pitch fork, rake — $40
lock for shed — $10
soil pH kit —$20

The funny thing was that there was another fund request form turned in with our names (prez, vise p, secretary, treasurer), with the club name “Organic Gardening Club”. It had a different hand writing, different list item fund requests, etc. By all means it was a thoughtful list so I combined some of it into one list for the SGA during the meeting:

seeds — $35
organic seeds & culinary mushroom spores — $35
tools — $40
lock for shed — $10
soil pH kit —$20
beneficial soil bacteria culture — $20
beneficial soil mycelial culture — $35

This club is built on ideas of community, transparency, and direct democracy. I am a green grasshopper at heading organizations, and I learned from this event tonight that it is important to be communicative with everyone to be truly a community. To this end, I am in the process of making a website as one of the mediums people can use to participate (wiki, forum, etc.).

Anyways, ramblings aside,
what seeds/ spores do you want us to get for the spring?

Sachem YangYi