Spring Clean Up April 30th

What a great day at the garden on Sunday!  

President Kim has these words of thanks:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

To all the members and non members that came out to the work party on Sunday. 😊  You are such a dedicated lot to brave the weather. The Green House  looks FANTASTIC inside and out.  Please do not bring anything back in, we will be installing the irrigation system as soon as it comes in Yippee!   Picnic table and bench are all cleaned as well. Terry was on brambles and planning the new F2S bed design.  All materials will be ordered early next week. So nice to have some students Brody and Seth involved in the garden this year. Oh to be young and limber again...  Was hoping to get some burning done but will have to reschedule that for a drier day 😊  Thanks again for your commitment to maintaining this gem of ours and may the Sun Gods  😎 shine sooner than later.  

Happy Gardening everyone🐝🐝🐝🌞🌞🌞 - Kimberley  

The rain held off (more or less), the greenhouse was cleaned up with avon bubblebath (!), Terry battled blackberries, Kim scrubbed the greenhouse (wash/rinse/repeat), Maureen worked with quiet dedication, Juanita came an hour early, Catherine and Bill dug right in, Silvie cleaned the bench, Cookie made her observations and sought out potential petters, Patricia chipped in and exuded peace, Debbie and Louis stepped right up looking for jobs to accomplish, and newest members Brody & Seth helped with hoses and even got a row of peas planted.  Many thanks to mom Allison for capturing the event with these photos, and for grabbing a sponge and joining in.  

Maureen and Seth

Brody is ready to plant

Kim blasts away at the greenhouse

Peas are planted

 Cleaning up bed 17

A job for our tallest volunteer

Recounting of Ubedam Theatre's great show on the weekend. 

 Long standing volunteer Cookie

Terry gives Silvie the scoop on F2S plans

Debbie and Seth having some fun, clouds held off for the most part.  

Greenhouse Clean Up April 30th

Great News!  

The Tahsis Literacy Society has approved our grant application for funding the Drip Irrigation Project.  

We will be installing drip irrigation in the community garden greenhouse and in the Farm to School garden area.  

We have opted for a variety of drip irrigation systems so that all community members can learn about drip irrigation installations and see what might work best for their own home gardens.  Drip irrigation keeps your plants happy and conserves water. 

But first.... we need to clean up the greenhouse! 

All hands on deck this Sunday, April 30th at 11 AM. 

Let's get her done! 

Mason bee house is up

Since the sun was shining and the primulas were planted, I put the Mason bees out today. Now, it is bucketing down. We had many more cocoons than there were spaces. Should be a good sized group.

Planting Crowns On the Queen's Birthday

We finally got a nice sunny day in Tahsis and the timing was perfect - there were 50 asparagus crowns to go into the 

Farm to School garden. 

 

A last minute call went out to CMESS students and a few were able to participate in the planting with Organic Master Gardener Terry. 

Our resident 'Duck Lady' Juanita, suggested that if anyone had a birthday today, that would be a good way to remember the planting.  Resident 'Corgi Lady' Silvie, piped up, 'why it's the Queen's 91st birthday!'

So we planted asparagus crowns on Her Majesty's birthday - and we even had a (royal) Corgi there to supervise, with Maester Percy the Spaniel as (official) Advisor.  

 

Granger digs in.

 

 Beneath the Holly tree, Natasha planted the primroses that were used to decorate the food table at our AGM.  

The Mason Bees will enjoy these.  

Lining up the planting area as 

Cookie the Corgi circles the group. 

Sweet Percy waits for a treat

Beautiful day, thank you Terry for sharing your knowledge and thanks to the young Tahsites who came out to help.  We'll remember this planting day in the years to come when the asparagus is enjoyed @ Farm to School.  

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♛♛♛ A Happy Birthday to Queen Elizabeth! ♛♛♛

Hail Asparagus! ♛

Our shipment of 100 asparagus crowns from West Coast Seeds  has arrived - 50 for the school garden, and 50 for garden members.  It will be two years before our first harvest, but after that we hope the plants will keep producing for years to come. We are planting Guelph Millennium, all males.  The above link will take you to an article all about asparagus.  

General Meeting Notice

Looking forward to our first general meeting of the season. 

Spring Bazaar - Congratulations Anne!

Congratulations to Anne Cameron, who won our raffle prize at today's PAC Spring Bazaar.  Ms. Cameron will have fresh greens in the coming weeks along with rainbow chard and a few posies to brighten a salad.  

Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets,

 and to volunteers

Rita, Kim and Silvie who manned the table.

Kim, Rita and Stephanie

share a laugh at the Community Garden's table.

'Fundraising with Flowers' 

orders must be received by Friday, April 21st.

Ask for a catalogue of summer blooming bulbs, seeds and extras.

And a special thanks to Allison Stiglitz and PAC volunteers who organize the bazaars every spring and winter.  This is a great community event and much appreciated.