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The Greenhouse Community Garden is located behind TLS in the space outside the greenhouses. This is a community run garden, where volunteers help plant, weed, and water for a share of the harvested fruits and veggies. The 2008 season is just begining.

News and Upcoming Events

• Group gardening to plant MORE peas, and cleanup - Sunday April 6th, at 2:00pm
• Ground breaking ceremony to plant peas - Sunday March 30th, at 2:30pm
• Louanne- if you want to comment, let me (Nicola) know, unless you can get Paul Lewis to give you access....
• If you don't have a key to the greenhouse, please ask Clint for one
• Is there a photographer who can document, in a lovely artistic way, the changes in our garden?

Seed starting schedule

• 21 Mar 08

               Plant           Number of Cells
           rhubarb chard          8
           spinach                8
           habanero               4
           pepper mix pimento     4
           goat horn hot pepper   4
           pizza peppers          4
           cubanelle pepper       4

• Can we add times that we should be starting seeds? Like when should we start tomato, herb, etc. seeds?

Nick says: this is not necessary if we meet once a week/every other week, besides, it would be a lot of work.

Next Sunday (March 30th) we will plant peas, spinach outdoors, and some cold-hardy plants indoors.

Items to Harvest

Harvesting Restrictions

• do not "clean up" the beds containing parsley, kale or brussel sprouts from last year, we can grow them out for seed

To Do

• Finalize seed lists and crops wanted

Nicola bought seeds from Coop 3/22/08 ($12. 63): FEDCO scarlet nantes carrot, climbing nasturtium, calendula, marigold, bibb lettuce. SEEDSAVERS five color silverbeet, genovese basil, scarlet nantes carrot, mixed lettuce.

Wanted List: FEDCO basil thai basil lemon fennel leeks lincoln cukes super zagross pepper long red narrow cayenne eggplant swallow/applegreen

ANY brand peas snow peas podded english kohlrabi pepper red mild cukes english long cukes pickling beets scallions lettuce all varieties dill- foliage cilantro (multiple plantings per year) beans bush: green yellow wax purple

flowers: allysum lots packets, all colors, great for edging borders snap dragons, all colors/sizes

• Look into suplementing soil with compost/manure

If we can organise to meet at my house with shovels and a truck, we can haul as much horse manure as we want.

Specialization

• Bryan is in charge of corn and sunflowers, and when to till the ground
• ?Louanne can you be in charge of gourds, lima beans and carrots?
• ?Amy can you be in charge of eggplants?

?Does anyone else want a specialty? Up for grabs: flowers, herbs, tomatoes, squashes, leafy greens, manure/compost, weeding

Time Log

Let's keep track of how much time we spend on the garden, like a time card. Please be in charge of your own timekeeping, in 15 minute increments (0.25 hours). Ideally, how much each person harvests should be proportional to the time he or she puts in.

• Amy - 3/21/08: 1 hour
• Bryan -3/21/08: 1 hour
• Louanne -3/21/08: 1 hour 3/30/08: 1.5 hours
• Matt - 3/21/08: 1 hour
• Molly - 3/21/08: 1 hour 3/30/08: 1.5 hours
• Gordon - 3/30/08: 1.5 hours
• Nic -
• Nicola -3/21/08: 1 hour 3/30/08: 1.5 hours
• Suegene -3/21/08: 1 hour 3/30/08: 1.5 hours

Leave of Absence

Let us know when you'll be gone for more than a week during the summer here

• Nic will be gone from the beginning of May through mid-July.

Garden Map

Needs to be updated for 2008.

Links

• CT NOFA http://www.ctnofa.org/index.htm
• Community Supported Agriculture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture
• Interesting link about corn:

http://www.greens.org/s-r/33/33-01.html http://www.alternet.org/environment/13147

• Victory garden: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/