Work Night and Orientation

If you're interested in being a garden volunteer this summer, we're having an orientation/work night on Monday May 14th at 6:30pm.  (Rain date will be May 21st at the same time.)

At the work night, we’ll show you the basics of caring for the garden, and will have a rough outline of what will be planted and where (map).  We will also have a sign up sheet for you to sign up to care for the garden for one week over the summer.

We will have approximately 1-1.5 hours of work to do.  We will weed the garden beds and also help Ms. Karen Lee-Wahl remove an area of grass so that students can put in a perennial bed near the office. 

Kids are welcome to join and help with this project.  

We would like to ask that you bring:

Gardening shoes

Gardening gloves

Tools for weeding and grass removal

Water to drink

We will try to provide some snacks to sustain us!  

*Please let us know if you plan to attend.*    epgarden@gmail.com

Spring!

What an early Spring it's been!  Quite a contrast to our first Spring.  Last year we had cold and driving flecks of ice on and off through June.  This year, we've already had Huegel Eagles in the garden.

Mrs. Hruska's third graders have been out planting peas.  Mammoth Melting Sugar is the variety and they're already coming up!  Don't they look great?!

The weeds have been getting an early start as well.  You can see in this photo how huge they're getting!

About the only good thing to see in the above photo has to do with the weeds distribution: they're concentrated along the garden beds.  Here at Dirt Club Hq we decided our priority when we began the garden was to improve the soil from the mix of sand, broken pens, glass, and corn starch that made up the plot.  Not even dandelions wanted to grow there!  Sure, we're still finding broken pens, but the height and vigor of the weeds along the garden beds show that we're making a difference in the soil.

And then there's this:

Yup, that's a worm.  A small worm to be sure, but still a worm.  We didn't see any worms our first season, and just a couple last summer.  And this wasn't the only worm found either when I was weeding.  Every shovelful of garden turned over had one of these guys!

Want to find worms too?  Like the feel of loam under your nails?

Contact the garden with the email address above!  Join Dirt Club today!