Robin Guarding Garden

I stopped by to check on the garden Friday morning and found this robin guarding the tipi.

JK

The Bales Have Landed

Saturday a lot happened in the garden.

Many people came together to install weed suppression in the form of cardboard and wood chips, and place the bales. The Tipi trellis was also installed. Not much is going to change in the garden for a while.

Daily watering of the bales is necessary to start the decomposition of the straw.

If you can’t wait to see what happened Saturday, you can go to Flickr to see some of the pictures that participants have posted.

Flickr: Your Photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barkhamstedgarden

JK

Visit tomorrow and/or sign up to help!

Help us grow!
The Barkhamsted Garden needs volunteers.
The garden will begin taking shape this weekend.

Stop by the town hall tomorrow, between 10am-12noon to see what it's all about.

To volunteer, email p.welles@snet.net

or log on to lotsahelpinghands to sign up.

Garden Planting Timeline

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Gardening Timeline created by Jennifer McGevna

Garden Design!

Garden Design by Evelyn Betz, Landscape Designer

2010

Last night's meeting

Last night's meeting took place at town hall despite the stormy conditions. We firmed up installation and planting dates, discussed our goals and objectives and made plans on how to achieve them.

After the meeting, several committee members checked out the garden location. Some grading will need to be done. We plan to set the straw bales out on March 27.

Seeds have arrived!

The Fedco seeds arrived yesterday and were delivered to Erick tonight. He will be potting them. He already started the broccoli seeds which Evelyn purchased earlier. Just about all the seeds are organic. Zucchini and sunflowers are back ordered.

Our current planting list is:

Chard
Tomatoes: Orange banana paste, Heirloom mix, Cherokee purple
Black cherry tomato
Matchbox hot pepper
Peacework sweet pepper
E yellow squash crookneck squash
Poona Kheera cucumber
Rainbow Lacinato kale
Oregon Giant Snow pea
Cascadia Snap Pea
Lettuce Mix
Par-cel cutting celery (parsley)
Whirlybird 7-Color Nasturtium
Aurora orach mix (spinach)
Amsterdam #2 carrot
Multi colored pole bean mix
Blue cocoa pole bean
Tiger eye bean
Calypso bean