DUGS is having its AGM on Wednesday, January 27th. It will be held at Maryhouse located at 504 Cook Street. Potluck supper at 6 p.m. and meeting to commence at 7 p.m.
We're a bit late this year with our gathering but as the saying goes, "Better late than never"!
Everyone is welcome to attend. Anyone interested in becoming a board member? You're especially welcome to attend! It's a great time to express any thoughts, concerns or ideas.
Hope to see you there...
Kathryn
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, September 18, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
September 2, 2009
Hello Everyone,
Fall is upon us!
Just a reminder to everyone that bed cleanup is for the end of the month, September 30th.
If you plan to return in the spring it is not imperative that you have the bed cleaned in the fall although it is nice to turn the soil and let it breath over the winter.
If you plan not to return and would like your deposit back, you must clean your bed out before the deadline.
If you do not clean out your bed your bed deposit will not be returned.
Make sense? Good. Just give me a shout or email if you have any questions...
Just want to say thanks to the Y2C2 crew that came and spent the day working in the south garden in mid-August. They filled 3 beds and were able to spread gravel on the walkways. Hopefully, it won't be so slick when it rains now. They also helped with a harvest and delivery to the food bank. 30 lbs! Thanks again and we always look forward to having the crew come to help us out. Hope to see you next year!
Thanks also to all the gardeners donating from their beds to the plant-a-row program. Our food totals to date are around the 300lb mark which is just fantastic. Our goal this year is 500lbs which I am sure we will surpass. The majority of it this year has gone to the new food bank but other drop offs have been made to various agencies. If anyone has anything they would like to donate, throw a PAR (purple marker) in your bed where the vegetable is growing and we can harvest it for you or if you would like to do it yourself, we ask if you could mark it on the sheet on the back of the shed door. We like to keep track of what we are able to produce and donate.
We had a lovely, although planned at the last minute, Open House at the end of August. About 15-16 people were able to attend. We hope next year to plan a bit further in advance. Should be fun. Thanks for stopping by if you had the chance.
Wednesday night work bee is tonight. If you can make it, I look forward to seeing you there!
Kathryn
Fall is upon us!
Just a reminder to everyone that bed cleanup is for the end of the month, September 30th.
If you plan to return in the spring it is not imperative that you have the bed cleaned in the fall although it is nice to turn the soil and let it breath over the winter.
If you plan not to return and would like your deposit back, you must clean your bed out before the deadline.
If you do not clean out your bed your bed deposit will not be returned.
Make sense? Good. Just give me a shout or email if you have any questions...
Just want to say thanks to the Y2C2 crew that came and spent the day working in the south garden in mid-August. They filled 3 beds and were able to spread gravel on the walkways. Hopefully, it won't be so slick when it rains now. They also helped with a harvest and delivery to the food bank. 30 lbs! Thanks again and we always look forward to having the crew come to help us out. Hope to see you next year!
Thanks also to all the gardeners donating from their beds to the plant-a-row program. Our food totals to date are around the 300lb mark which is just fantastic. Our goal this year is 500lbs which I am sure we will surpass. The majority of it this year has gone to the new food bank but other drop offs have been made to various agencies. If anyone has anything they would like to donate, throw a PAR (purple marker) in your bed where the vegetable is growing and we can harvest it for you or if you would like to do it yourself, we ask if you could mark it on the sheet on the back of the shed door. We like to keep track of what we are able to produce and donate.
We had a lovely, although planned at the last minute, Open House at the end of August. About 15-16 people were able to attend. We hope next year to plan a bit further in advance. Should be fun. Thanks for stopping by if you had the chance.
Wednesday night work bee is tonight. If you can make it, I look forward to seeing you there!
Kathryn
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Community Garden Open House
Sunday, August 23rd
1:00-3:00 pm
Come join us in the downtown Whitehorse Community Garden located under the clat cliffs at 7th and Ray Street
Tour the garden, see the new log beds, meet your neighbours, hear what we've accomplished recently and see what's growing this year.
We hope to see you there!
Monday, July 27, 2009
July 27, 2009
Hello Everyone!
Hot weather is upon us...Yay! Water, water, water!
I was foraging in the gardens this evening for my dinner and noticed that the saskatoons are ripe. And huge! Help yourselves everyone. We have two trenches - one on the inside of the front chainlink fence to the right of the gate if you are looking at the garden from the street (in front of the greenhouse) and the other is on the outside of the wood fence on the other side of the lilac hedge. Small containers please so that there is enough to go around. Some raspberries are ready and the rest are not far behind.
Workshop dates as promised...
The Weed Workshop July 29th 6:30-7:30pm
Weed identification. What grows where and why. What's edible and what's not. Weeds can tell us a lot and so can Randy Lamb, DUGS board president, when he hosts the workshop.
The Taste Tour August 5th 6:30-7:30pm
Ever wonder what that interesting thing is growing in the bed next to yours is? Well here's your chance. Tour the garden. Check out what's growing. Nibble like rabbits. Don't worry, everyone's beds are safe. There'll be very little visible damage...:)
Hot weather is upon us...Yay! Water, water, water!
I was foraging in the gardens this evening for my dinner and noticed that the saskatoons are ripe. And huge! Help yourselves everyone. We have two trenches - one on the inside of the front chainlink fence to the right of the gate if you are looking at the garden from the street (in front of the greenhouse) and the other is on the outside of the wood fence on the other side of the lilac hedge. Small containers please so that there is enough to go around. Some raspberries are ready and the rest are not far behind.
Workshop dates as promised...
The Weed Workshop July 29th 6:30-7:30pm
Weed identification. What grows where and why. What's edible and what's not. Weeds can tell us a lot and so can Randy Lamb, DUGS board president, when he hosts the workshop.
The Taste Tour August 5th 6:30-7:30pm
Ever wonder what that interesting thing is growing in the bed next to yours is? Well here's your chance. Tour the garden. Check out what's growing. Nibble like rabbits. Don't worry, everyone's beds are safe. There'll be very little visible damage...:)
Come one, come all. Tell your friends. Tell your families...all the cool kids will be there...;)
On that note, I will see you all on Wednesday!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
July 14,2009
Just a few quick notes.
Dates for both these are TBA. I'll keep you posted.
Gardens are looking great! Make sure to keep up on your watering. Your plants are going to love you if they can get heat AND moisture. Also if your job is watering any of the perennials (raspberries, saskatoons, etc) please make sure you are doing that as well.
On that watering note, I'm finding that my plants are loving me a little too much and I'm having a hard time keeping up eating what they're producing. That's why I'm going to participate in the Plant-A-Row program. What is it you ask?
Typically, you plant an extra row of whatever in your garden bed for eventual donation BUT it is also very helpful when we find our beds are producing more than we can handle. We don't like anything to go to waste in the garden so if you find you can't keep up, put one of the purple markers (inside the shed) at the end of the row you'd like to donate and someone (probably me) will come by and harvest it for you. I won't take the whole plant, or row for that matter, especially if it's still capable of producing more.
We've started our drop offs to the Food Bank. YAY! A very good thing. They don't always have fresh produce available to them to put in the hampers so anything you'd like to donate is greatly appreciated.
A couple of things that you can look for coming up in the garden...
The Weed Workshop
Weed identification. What grows where and why. What's edible and what's not. Weeds can tell us a lot and so can Randy Lamb, DUGS board president, when he hosts the workshop.
The Taste Tour
Ever wonder what that interesting thing is growing in the bed next to yours is? Well here's your chance. Tour the garden. Check out what's growing. Nibble like rabbits. Don't worry, everyone's beds are safe. There'll be very little visible damage...:)
Dates for both these are TBA. I'll keep you posted.
Last but not least, I will not be able to attend the work bee on Wednesday (July 15th) as my presence is requested elsewhere. If anyone would still like to show up some of the tasks to be done are:
-Water the compost pile (old and new)
-Add to the compost pile (the new pile please. Do not add to the old pile)
-Water any perennial beds needing it (don't forget the saskatoons on the outside of the fence)
-Weed to your heart's content
-Water the big donation beds in the south garden
...click to enlarge any of the photos.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
June 3, 2009
Hello All!
The South Garden.
The beds are now all finished in the south garden. The ones that are void of dirt will be filled by the end of the summer and ready to go for the next growing season. I am still trying to get the barrels there so everyone is just going to have to share the single one that is there now.
Enjoying the heat? I am!
Looks like most of you have planted or are getting underway. Your gardens will need to be kept wet so your seeds germinate and plants don't wither. When it's hot like this, you should be watering everyday.
A Few Things
I think I have the tasks all sorted out and because there are so many of you, I will just post everyone's tasks on the back of the shed door along with the clipboard for recording your hours. Sorry I haven't updated the sheets - I forgot about the month change!
I have a couple of tasks that I haven't included on the list. Those being weed-eating, shed clean up and painting. If anyone has any interest in these tasks please let me know. The shed is a disaster area right now and desperately needs sorting and tidying. I will likely tackle that at tonight's work bee.
Weeding...everyone is to maintain a 2-3 foot perimeter around their beds reasonably free of weeds. I'm not too concerned about grass as we do weed eat but I do want to see those dandelions gone. Use one of the dandelion tools in the shed. Please remember to put all your weeds in one of the buckets by the shed. And please, no rocks or dirt in the buckets. It makes them way too heavy to handle. If the bucket is heavy to lift you likely have something in there that shouldn't be. Dirt should be shaken from the roots and rocks can be tossed over the fence(cliffside) or kept around the base of your garden plot.
Rita, our main weed eater, has requested that everyone please pluck the tall grass from around the base of their bed as it is hard on the wire for the weed eater when she has to go in so close and ends up whacking the wood of the bed.
The South Garden.
The beds are now all finished in the south garden. The ones that are void of dirt will be filled by the end of the summer and ready to go for the next growing season. I am still trying to get the barrels there so everyone is just going to have to share the single one that is there now.
We have the hose set up there and I would like it to remain where it is. It's too much of a task to put it away and haul it out everytime we need it. So here's a few rules with the hose being out:
This is the water main in the north garden that controls the water line(runs under the road) in the south garden. In order for the water to come on in the south garden, the water has to be turned on at the bottom (main) and at the top (south garden). Don't mess with the other two things. I would like these two taps to stay on and to be able to control the water for the south garden from the south garden (I'll get to that in a minute) so leave them on please. Using the hose in the north garden (the one with the key) may be tricky to hook up which means you're probably going to get wet. So if you need to hook it up just turn it off. Also, please check to see if anyone is using the water in the south garden before hooking up to this main as the pressure is shared and you can really only use one hose, effectively, at a time.
Okay, back to water control...
The box in the ground which, by the way, should always be left with the lid on like below:
and not like this:
In this box the hose connects to the underground hose coming from the north garden. There is a coupler on there now that we can control the on/off with. What's shown below is the on position. Off is 90 degrees to this. You should be able to tell by the pressure in the hose. This must be turned on to use and you must turn it off when you are done.
Next. Attached to the side of one of the boxes is another coupler. See below. There are two choices here that both involve the little red switches. Choice one is the correct one and is going to allow icy cold water to flow beautifully from the hose. Choice two is the wrong one and it's going to shoot icy cold water into your face as you lean over it . Trust me, I know this. From experience. Twice.
So, because I'm the type of person that believes in learning from experience (and also because I have a cruel sense of humour), I'm not going to tell you which is which. Have fun with it though.
I want to see the hose wound up nice and kept on the hose holder on the fence. Nobody likes to untangle hoses and we don't want to get any holes in it from vehicles running over it.
Thank you to Heidi for getting things set up with the hoses and couplers. Even though I did get a thorough face washing as a result. Twice.
I think that's all for now. Be patient with me. There are almost 55 of you and only one of me. :)
Hope to see you tonight!
Happy Gardening!
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