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Saturday, April 9, 2011
May 1 Deadline for Returning Gardeners
Returning Gardeners (from previous season) have until May 1 to let me know if they will be returning to the garden for the 2011 growing season. If I am not notified that you would like to return, by this date, your plot will be reassigned to a new gardener. As always, new interest has grown this year and our sign-up was very successful. Now I just need to find space for everyone!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
2011 Garden Sign Up
Hello Everyone!
Sign up for a plot at the Whitehorse Community Garden will take place on Saturday, April 2nd, at the Whitehorse Public Library from 12-2pm. As always, returning gardeners from the previous year will get first choice of their beds and then all remaining beds are available on a first come, first serve basis. The costs are as follows:
Annual Membership Fee: $20.00
Bed Deposit: $20.00
Shed Key Deposit: $5.00
Returning gardeners need only pay the annual membership and possibly the key deposit if you need a new key to the shed.
As part of the Gardener's Contract, and general philosophy of the community garden, all members are expected to give a minimum of 16 hours in volunteer time to the garden. This works out to about an hour a week for the extent of the growing season (May-September). These hours can be worked in the form of assigned tasks or as part of the weekly work bee. We also usually have a couple of early/pre-season work bees to get the garden cleaned up and ready to go. These are a great way to work off some of those hours early in the season and free up your time later on to concentrate on your garden plot! We will announce dates and times once we get closer to spring, which seems really far away these past few -30 nights!
I look forward to seeing all the familiar faces at the sign up as well as any new ones...
See you soon!
Sign up for a plot at the Whitehorse Community Garden will take place on Saturday, April 2nd, at the Whitehorse Public Library from 12-2pm. As always, returning gardeners from the previous year will get first choice of their beds and then all remaining beds are available on a first come, first serve basis. The costs are as follows:
Annual Membership Fee: $20.00
Bed Deposit: $20.00
Shed Key Deposit: $5.00
Returning gardeners need only pay the annual membership and possibly the key deposit if you need a new key to the shed.
As part of the Gardener's Contract, and general philosophy of the community garden, all members are expected to give a minimum of 16 hours in volunteer time to the garden. This works out to about an hour a week for the extent of the growing season (May-September). These hours can be worked in the form of assigned tasks or as part of the weekly work bee. We also usually have a couple of early/pre-season work bees to get the garden cleaned up and ready to go. These are a great way to work off some of those hours early in the season and free up your time later on to concentrate on your garden plot! We will announce dates and times once we get closer to spring, which seems really far away these past few -30 nights!
I look forward to seeing all the familiar faces at the sign up as well as any new ones...
See you soon!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Plant-A-Row 2010
2010 was a great year for our Plant-a-Row program. In total, combining what we grew in beds we designated for the program and the donations from individual gardeners, we managed to donate 480 lbs of vegetables to our local food bank. Below are the totals in weight(lbs): Beets - 98 Berries - 11 Cabbage - 8 Cauliflower - 1 Green onion - 2 Lettuce - 16.5 Kale - 13 Kohlrabi - 4 Potatoes - 242 Spinach - 15 Swiss Chard - 27.5 Zucchini - 42 Thank you so much to those that helped throughout the season to take care of and harvest the designated beds and to those who choose to donate. I'm looking forward to another, and hopefully even more, fruitful season this year! (The picture is of a frosty delivery of beets. I'd left them on my deck for the night and woke up to a rather chilly morning. Thank goodness for hardy vegetables :) )
Monday, November 22, 2010
2010 DUGS AGM
The Downtown Urban Gardeners Society(DUGS) will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, December 1st at the Whitehorse Public Library at 7 p.m. Everyone and anyone is welcome to attend.
Join us for tea and coffee and a slide presentation on "The First Decade of the Whitehorse Community Garden" followed by the AGM and a dessert potluck. For more information, call Randy at 633-4379.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Harvest Potluck Social
Mark your calendars! Sunday, September 12th from 1-3pm, join us at the garden for our 2nd annual Harvest Potluck Social. Bring a small dish if you can. Even better if it's made from something you grew at the garden! Come and meet your fellow gardeners, ask questions or just check out the other garden plots.
All are welcome.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Hello Gardeners,
Well, July is upon us already. This means everyone’s garden should be well under way. The rain has been a really good thing these past few days. If we could get a little heat now, things will be wonderful.
All gardeners have now been assigned a task. The tasks were sent out via email and as well are posted in the shed on the wall. If you are unsure of what your task is or how you should be going about it, please contact me at the dugs email address.
All gardeners are to give 16 hours of work back to the garden as part of the gardener’s contract. This works out to about 1 hour per week over the growing season.
I’ve been trying to keep up with the weed eating in the garden. It’s a big job and because it can never be fully accomplished in one evening it seems to have grown back by the time I come back to finish it off! That's why it always looks half finished :)
Having said that, I’ve noticed that very few of you are keeping the weeds and grass down around your beds. I realize in some areas it is tough to deal with the grass, but you are still expected to maintain a perimeter around your bed somewhat free of weeds. At the very least, please take down the tall grass that grows close to the beds. The weed eater can’t get that close.
If anyone knows of a used, working, gas powered lawn mower looking for a good home, we would love to offer it one.
I think that’s it for now. Wednesday night work bees are still happening, rain or shine. 7-9pm every Wednesday night. What we do depends on how many show up. Lately, the attendance has been minimal so it is mostly “beautification” projects on the go…Hope to see you there!
Well, July is upon us already. This means everyone’s garden should be well under way. The rain has been a really good thing these past few days. If we could get a little heat now, things will be wonderful.
All gardeners have now been assigned a task. The tasks were sent out via email and as well are posted in the shed on the wall. If you are unsure of what your task is or how you should be going about it, please contact me at the dugs email address.
All gardeners are to give 16 hours of work back to the garden as part of the gardener’s contract. This works out to about 1 hour per week over the growing season.
I’ve been trying to keep up with the weed eating in the garden. It’s a big job and because it can never be fully accomplished in one evening it seems to have grown back by the time I come back to finish it off! That's why it always looks half finished :)
Having said that, I’ve noticed that very few of you are keeping the weeds and grass down around your beds. I realize in some areas it is tough to deal with the grass, but you are still expected to maintain a perimeter around your bed somewhat free of weeds. At the very least, please take down the tall grass that grows close to the beds. The weed eater can’t get that close.
If anyone knows of a used, working, gas powered lawn mower looking for a good home, we would love to offer it one.
I think that’s it for now. Wednesday night work bees are still happening, rain or shine. 7-9pm every Wednesday night. What we do depends on how many show up. Lately, the attendance has been minimal so it is mostly “beautification” projects on the go…Hope to see you there!
TIP: After a rain is the best time to pull weeds. The soil is softer and much more willing to give up those weedy roots!
Tarragon in the Master Gardeners bed.
Zucchini
Horseradish and Delphinium
Spinach, Broccoli (?) and Swiss Chard
Zucchini blossom
Monday, June 7, 2010
A couple of new features on the blog. I added two tabs up at the top of the page, “Looking for Volunteers…” and “Friends of the Garden”. One will list the larger tasks we will need help with and the other is a place to put any announcements from our friends or even from yourselves, should you have anything you’d like to post. If you do, email me and I’ll be sure to get it posted.
The wheel barrow with flowers at entry gate –this wheelbarrow has served its life helping out at the garden and has now gone on to greener pastures serving as a flower planter. It would be greatly appreciated if everyone would help water and dead-head as needed. When dead-heading, be sure to remove the seed pod as well as the dead blossom
A small herb garden box has been established in the main garden above the demo plot next to the picnic tables. When the herbs are established, feel free to pick some for your favourite recipes. There are paper towels in the shed in which they can be wrapped. As with the flower wheel barrow, please water and pluck a few weeds as you pass by, if needed. The red box next to the herbs will hopefully be the home of zucchini/squash plants, the "fruit " of which will be given to the food bank. Please help water if they look thirsty.
The "food bank garden plot" in the south garden has been planted. The plantings have been artistically arranged so the colours and overall look should be very attractive. The produce being grown this year is peas, potatoes, zucchini, carrots, Swiss chard, spinach and beets Thanks to the Gauthier-Grigg family and Godefrey and Keiko for their efforts. Don't hesitate to pull a few weeds in this plot should the need arise.
Have you noticed the composting area seems to change frequently? We have a gentleman who has graciously taken on the task of working the compost (Yay!) Dean Metcalfe was involved with the garden in its early stages working with Joan Craig, one of our founding members, and he approached us asking if he might do this work. We’re excited to see this development and hope to see it through to what looks like some great compost.
How can you help? Feel free to drop of your compost at the garden. We do ask that you keep it free of paper and cardboard(coffee filters are okay) as well as any meat scraps (don’t want to attract animals). No weeds please.
While planting, watering and weeding you garden box, please remember to remove weeds and dandelions from the area around your box. The dandelions are raging out of control. Please help by, at the very least, deadheading the flowers before they go to seed. Remember to put all weeds in our new weed compost (see previous post) now located on the former gazebo site.
Task assignments…*sigh* I’m still working on it. But you know, many of you have been with the garden for at least one full season and I think it’s fairly obvious what needs to be done especially if you were assigned a task last year. So until, the tasks are assigned feel free to fill water barrels, weed the raspberry, saskatoon and rhubarb trenches, water common areas, pull weeds etc. The beauty of the garden will always be equal to the sum of the work put into it.
Wednesday Night Workbee
I want to move one of the picnic tables into the south garden so those that garden on that side have a place to sit if needed. The pile of gravel, also in the south garden needs to be distributed around the beds to help with the muck that forms when the ground gets wet. We need to concentrate on the dandelions in the north garden as well. They are thriving this year and as I said earlier, I’d like to get that under control before they all go to seed.
That’s it for now. Hope to see you soon!
The wheel barrow with flowers at entry gate –this wheelbarrow has served its life helping out at the garden and has now gone on to greener pastures serving as a flower planter. It would be greatly appreciated if everyone would help water and dead-head as needed. When dead-heading, be sure to remove the seed pod as well as the dead blossom
A small herb garden box has been established in the main garden above the demo plot next to the picnic tables. When the herbs are established, feel free to pick some for your favourite recipes. There are paper towels in the shed in which they can be wrapped. As with the flower wheel barrow, please water and pluck a few weeds as you pass by, if needed. The red box next to the herbs will hopefully be the home of zucchini/squash plants, the "fruit " of which will be given to the food bank. Please help water if they look thirsty.
The "food bank garden plot" in the south garden has been planted. The plantings have been artistically arranged so the colours and overall look should be very attractive. The produce being grown this year is peas, potatoes, zucchini, carrots, Swiss chard, spinach and beets Thanks to the Gauthier-Grigg family and Godefrey and Keiko for their efforts. Don't hesitate to pull a few weeds in this plot should the need arise.
Have you noticed the composting area seems to change frequently? We have a gentleman who has graciously taken on the task of working the compost (Yay!) Dean Metcalfe was involved with the garden in its early stages working with Joan Craig, one of our founding members, and he approached us asking if he might do this work. We’re excited to see this development and hope to see it through to what looks like some great compost.
How can you help? Feel free to drop of your compost at the garden. We do ask that you keep it free of paper and cardboard(coffee filters are okay) as well as any meat scraps (don’t want to attract animals). No weeds please.
While planting, watering and weeding you garden box, please remember to remove weeds and dandelions from the area around your box. The dandelions are raging out of control. Please help by, at the very least, deadheading the flowers before they go to seed. Remember to put all weeds in our new weed compost (see previous post) now located on the former gazebo site.
Task assignments…*sigh* I’m still working on it. But you know, many of you have been with the garden for at least one full season and I think it’s fairly obvious what needs to be done especially if you were assigned a task last year. So until, the tasks are assigned feel free to fill water barrels, weed the raspberry, saskatoon and rhubarb trenches, water common areas, pull weeds etc. The beauty of the garden will always be equal to the sum of the work put into it.
Wednesday Night Workbee
I want to move one of the picnic tables into the south garden so those that garden on that side have a place to sit if needed. The pile of gravel, also in the south garden needs to be distributed around the beds to help with the muck that forms when the ground gets wet. We need to concentrate on the dandelions in the north garden as well. They are thriving this year and as I said earlier, I’d like to get that under control before they all go to seed.
That’s it for now. Hope to see you soon!
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