Garden Update - June 16

[Golden Community Garden]

It's a beautiful day out there. Here's the latest from your Golden Community Garden news department:

 

Saturday (June 18) - Work projects :)

9 to 10 am:  The Children’s Demo Garden: We could use about 4 people on Saturday morning from 9 am to 10 am to help bring mulch, compost, and topsoil to the kids garden. Please let Matt Burde (720-381-2420) know, or just come by at 9 am if you can help. (If Matt's not at the shade structure at 9 am he'll be out west at the labyrinth.)

 

10 am to 11 or noon: Labyrinth layout project - June 18th - We need about 6 more people to follow a pattern and paint labyrinthine lines from a can. Let Matt Burde (720-381-2420) know if you want to come help, or just show up.

 

As always, a hat, water, and gloves are a great idea on these hot days.

Garden Party - Saturday June 25th - Save the date!

Pot luck with the garden supplying wood fired pizza. Yeah! (Thanks Wade and Nadine for building a portable wood fired oven!) We'll get more info out soon.

59^th Annual Golden Flower Show - Today and Tomorrow, and Saturday!

There’s still time to join the fun of the 59th Annual Golden Flower Show. Enter your veggies, herbs, flowers, and critters tonight at 5-7pm or tomorrow morning from 8-11am at the First United Methodist Church at 1500 Ford Street (the church by Safeway). Click here for the show program link For more info call Katie (303) 279-5743

And don’t forget to stop by the show Friday from 3:30 – 5pm or Saturday 10am – 4pm to check out what all your friends and neighbors have been growing and the beautiful flower designs done by our accomplished local designers.

 

When: Friday from 3:30 – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 4pm

Where: First United Methodist Church, 1500 Ford Street. 

 

We hope to see you there.
 
--The Golden Gardeners and the Table Mountain Garden Clubs

A note from David Braden, about the permaculture garden, that applies to all of us community gardeners:

This effort is about what each of us can do to make the earth a better place to live. That is not something we do to enhance performance this quarter. A healthy, sustainable and productive world requires us to take care of our relationships with the people, plants and creatures with whom we come in contact. It is the task of a life time. When people admire your garden, let them know, it is not too late to begin . . . begin now to prepare the ground for all the seasons to come.

 

 

OUR THANKS

To all of you for making the Golden Community Garden such a great, green, happy, beautiful, productive, transformative community space.

 

The garden crew

Matt, Suzanne, Katie, Stew, Bruce, Kara, Susan, Kemp, Erin, Erik, Brenda

 

ps - Below is some of the other stuff at the garden

 

 

 

MEMBERSHIP 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.com 

I have photos for these plot numbers: 1A, 1B, 2C, 3, 8, 15A, 17, 18, 24A, 28C/D, 29, P7, P9, P15, P16, P17, P18

 

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. 

 

EDUCATION - Composting education, please read: http://dug.org/composting-basics

Log hours here

Volunteers:

 

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.