Garden Update
Golden Community Garden
Let us know your thoughts on why the community garden is a benefit for the greater Golden community.We see ourselves as a group of volunteers and gardeners spending time and effort to bring the benefits of gardening to our community, but surprisingly not everyone in the community sees the huge benefit of having a community garden. Can you help? This counts towards your garden time requirement, which you can log here. We'll compile the responses, share with everyone, and then may ask you to forward yours on as letters to the editor, comments to city council and staff, or just thoughts to share with neighbors.) Thanks!And here's a video A Garden in Every Neighborhood, and some other great info Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities & Benefits of Community Gardens
- Photos of our garden members - Click slide show in the upper left of the frame, and enjoy!
We are trying to match names with faces so that we can get to know each other better at the garden. Whenever I'm at the garden, I take along my camera and try to get as many photos of gardeners at their plots as possible. Eventually we hope to get these photos and names displayed in some form. But we have a nice long membership list and I have a long ways to go! Below is a list of the plots whose members I already have. If I haven't caught you with the camera yet, would you mind sending me a digital photo of you or any part of your group at your plot? A closer-up shot is usually better than a distant one, but I can crop and edit as needed. If it's not possible for you to do this, I will continue to bring my camera, and we'll see if I can eventually catch you. Thanks for your help in making our garden a true community. diane witters witter...@msn.comI have photos for these plot numbers: 1A, 1B, 2C, 3, 8, 15A, 17, 18, 24A, 28C/D, 29, P7, P9, P15, P16, P17, P18
- Jam session June 25th
- Happy Hours starting July 14th, and then every other Thursday through September. (So, July 14, July 28, August 11th, August 25th, September 8th and September 22nd). Then we can have a pumpkin/harvest festival in October.
Composting education, please read: http://dug.org/composting-basics
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HELP NEEDED (Log hours here) Stew could use two people to help out staking recently planted fruit trees and helping out improving the soil condition around one of the landscape trees this weekend. Please email Stew...@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping out. |
Volunteers:
Labyrinth layout project - June 18th - Let Matt Burde know if you want to come help layout the labyrinth.
Our Drainage and Surface Mud Mitigation Project has been stalled due to the lack of a Bobcat to move our 35 ton pile of road base. If you know of a Bobcat that we can borrow (or inexpensively rent), please call Kemp at (720)261-0773
Dan is looking for one or two people to help remove thistles and poison hemlock from the ditch north of the road. Please contact him at (303) 278-0638.
Be the first to use the new wheelbarrow - we still need 4 inches of mulch on the sides of the apple berm and piles of mulch at the other berms. Scrape up the mulch pile to the ground – more mulch is coming.
The labyrinth circle is three-fourths weeded, only one-fourth left to do. Because of the landscape fabric underlay, please pull these small weeds up by hand. Weeds in any of our paths can also be pulled up.
Calling all owner/operators of string trimmers - we need your help mowing all of the vegetation (except shrubs) around, and to the back of our shed, the Lion’s shed and the trailer.
The Children’s Demo Garden: South of the to be completed pavilion there's a children's demo garden. Half is ready for planting, the other half needs cardboard (well overlapped) from under the west side of the pavilion, mulch, and a mixture of compost and topsoil. Contact Carol Lemon, or Matt Burde if you can help.
EVENTS:
Join the fun at the 59th Annual Golden Flower Show by entering your veggies, herbs, flowers, and critters
next Thursday June 16 from 5 – 7pm and/or Friday June 17 from 8 – 11am at the First United Methodist Church, 1500 Ford Street.
Did you say critters????? Yes, enter your “Guest in the Garden”, a critter or creature made primarily from fruit, vegetables, or foliage. The use of googly eyes is a plus.
For more info call Katie (303) 279-5743
OUR THANKS
Thanks everyone!!A tree in need has a friend indeed with the City of Golden Parks and Forestry Department. A big Thanks to Patrick Plummer (Maintenance, Parks) and Dave High (City Forester) for tree straps and stakes for our new trees.
The Golden Community Garden growing committee