Monday, March 3, 2014

Work Day - Saturday March 8th

We would like to welcome all our new gardeners and look forward to rekindling our old friendships from the past couple years. Saturday March 8th  from 10 am to 12 noon is the first workday for 2014. Hopefully we will have beautiful weather and a huge mulch pile to spread.

If you have a few extra minutes this week, it would be greatly appreciated if everyone would work on removing weeds and those pesky wild onions in the common areas (under the pecan trees and the two big paths). That way we'll be more efficient when we spread the mulch on Saturday. Even without spreading mulch, we still have a lot of other tasks to accomplish!

What  are the goals for Saturday?
  • Clean out the shed
  • Mulch Common Areas....
  • Dig holes for the blueberries and plant them
  • Dig  the iris out and pot them up
  • Weed in the orchard besides in the common areas, pollinator & sunflower beds
  • Weed around the beds in the Special Needs area
  • Work on the compost bins and turn them
  • Mulch Common Areas....
  • Rake out all the loose leaves in the border with the apple trees
  • Cut back the herbs in the sunflower beds
  • Deadhead and cut off dead foliage on the pansies
  • Mulch Common Areas....
  • Cleaning up the bed under the sign
Be sure to bring your own hand tools and a weeding bucket. If you have a stiff tined rake (like the person in the picture) that would be useful too as we only have a couple and it is easier to spread the mulch with them.

Don't forget to bring water and sunscreen also.

      Mike and Vicki

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