Re: April 1st meeting

[Dr Eric Tangumonkem]

Great ideas from every one. We to take out the woody materials out of the compost and cut them into smaller chunks, this will speed up the decay process. In the past flowers were planted on the boarders of the garden, but the weeds still invaded.              I have noticed that peanuts and pinto beans are able to check the weeds.The crops are green and lush and also produce beautiful flowers. I am taking care of the eastern board and will ensure that it is weed free. Was not able to make it today becuase of other commitments.            We need  the dues to come in so that we can buy two new water hoses. Happy gardening. Eric Tangumonkem Ph.D. http://www.linkedin.com/in/drtangumonkem God is taking care --- On Fri, 25/3/11, shelandy <shel...@gmail.com> wrote: From: shelandy <shel...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: April 1st meeting To: "Cristina Estrada" <ara...@gmail.com> Cc: "c m" <mann...@yahoo.com>, "Dr Eric Tangumonkem" <tangu...@yahoo.com>, zhe...@hotmail.com, "TabassumMahzabeen" <txm0...@utdallas.edu>, sno...@att.net, dab0...@utdallas.edu, "maijin qu" <quma...@gmail.com>, l.s...@tx.rr.com, bape...@yahoo.com, all...@pobox.com, nicol...@hotmail.com, "alexandra wilson" <anorri...@gmail.com>, "Gabriel Rosenfield" <gaberos...@gmail.com>, rxh0...@utdallas.edu, sandu...@yahoo.com, "Amidar Monalisa G" <monalis...@utdallas.edu> Date: Friday, 25 March, 2011, 13:50 There are huge inventory of dry leaves, so a small container is never enough.  Maybe Javis or someone else will have a better idea, but this is mine: Expand the compost area to 4 divisions from the East to the Wast:  Each week/month we only dump the dry leaves into one division, for the following weeks/month, no more new perishable material is dumped to the working divisions but the dumping division,  having people waters each divisions at least once a week (that means every one just do it once in a semester)  If we have enough man power, flip the soil over the perishable material once a month.  That should work.  At least I go my own compost working in my department similar to this way. The big hard trunk like Orka should be treated  differently, since they are difficult to be perished.  I just cut my dry Orka into a smaller sticks so I can use it as the supporting pole of my plant. The south hose is leaking even worse than before.  We  need it repaired/ replaced.  I bought a green sprinkler to work with it.   If no one will fix that south hose, I will simply take my sprinkler back. For the border facing the running track, that's our "face" to the community.    Last year I have suggested to implant herbs and flowers to make it a good natural fence to resist the weeds and insects, but my words were not heard.   I have waited a year and this year I decided to have  the border space outside my own pot maintained by myself.  So even if someone else mess up other portions of East border, at least people can see the portion of border I maintained well with some flowers and herbs.   On 西元2011年03月25日 12:06, Cristina Estrada wrote: Hi guys, there is a lot of plans, but let's discuss first the schedule: 4-5 pm: Cleaning of the garden 5-6 pm: Meeting/food eating 6-7 pm: Cleaning Some people cannot make it early and some late, trying to make a compromise I divided it this way. This way you can choose to work form 4-5 or from 6-7 pm, or both!! :) Main goals: Clean the border  and also the "Compost" mess. I talked with Monalisa Amidar, the responsible for Student Volunteerism and she agreed to help us. They may provide us some financial support from UTD to buy containers to do a compost, they just want something good looking and that actually works. Can you give me a hand with this issue? I will bring some ideas too and during next Friday meeting maybe we can decide something.... There's also some plans to have an event during earth week in UTD and have visitors in the garden. They will put us in the big program, with the condition of cleaning the garden and make it look beautiful. Then we will have "beautification" works during all Fridays of April to make the garden look great during the week of April 18th-April 22nd.  Let's show our garden is a great thing UTD should be proud of!!! She loved Shelandy's idea of giving away some sprouts of plants, I will start some little plants from cuttings of my kalanchoes and that we can also donate. What do you think? Cheers, Cristina -- Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle A problem recognized is a problem half-solved- Ann Landers Cristina Estrada-Raygoza Materials Science and Engineering Department The University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell Road, RL10 Richardson, TX  75080-3021 ice0...@utdallas.edu

[shelandy]

If you did not de-weed frequently, no soil will be ever weed-free!  I do not know what's the point to mention the case of planting flower on the border in the past.  The decisive factor is the human being who maintains it, not the plant.  If you have maintained the conjunction between the East border and the plots, as we did to each other for the neighboring plots, I won't bring up this issue.  You just failed.
As matter of factor, in the past, we had a nice herb section around the entrance.  There was an attempt to implant some herb like Basil over there.  Unfortunately it was accidentally removed by Alison.  It was fine, as we can just do it again in the next year.  However, later you seemed to plant a corn there, and dig a big hole without a proper recovery.  Everyone passing by now can clearly see a big evidence that that section is abandoned, even though they may not notice that some other plots has not been de-weed for a while.  But they can surely see the mess you came up.

Before you try to convince people that you can take care the East border well, please try to commit an action to restore that herb section as it was before, and make it weed-free for at least a semester.  Before you can prove that, please keep a distance away from my plot.  I am going to have herb and flowers there outside my plot to protect the weed invading my plot from the East border.  I do believe we had an agreement that gardener need to clean up half of the intersection between theirs and their neighbors'.  Among my 3 neighbors, you are the only one violates this rule.

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[Dr Eric Tangumonkem]

Shelandy,   I do not know what you are talking about. Why do you make accusations without facts. Did you see me destroying the herb garden? When did you see me digging up the soil you are talking about? How much weed do we have on the eastern boarder of the garden? If in doubt ask.   I am not trying to convince anybody about anything. I did not dig the herb garden and I am not required to restore it.

Eric Tangumonkem Ph.D. http://www.linkedin.com/in/drtangumonkem God is taking care

[shelandy]

Let's go back the critical issue of the "Fact":  Did you ever grow plants in the herb section?  If you have not ever grow plant there, I will apology.  If you have, I deserve an explanation why there is a hole there?  No one will dig a hole for no reason.  For you, you probably think it is ok for having some weed on the East border, but this is NOT YOUR OWN garden!  As matter of fact, I have heard three people having problem with you in the past.