The Garden of Eatin’ (by consensus gentium) is a GO!  And since it’s late to start, we got go NOW! We have 4 solid steady volunteers and surely more will step up to the plate.  We have ordered the automated watering system, will get the hoses and drip irrigation this week,  Jack will break open the 30’ x 30’ spot this week, Dave has offered all the hair we need for varmint control, Sonya has some varmint oil ideas, we have a roll of re-mesh to make cages out of, and I own bolt cutters.

If you would like to help raise vegetables and whatever (I’m NOT a gardener and consider “vegetable” a nasty word as in “eat your vegetables FIRST!”)  then please plan on coming out and planting this Saturday June 6^th at 9am.  Please bring your favorite gardening tools eg: shovel, garden weasel, spade, post hole digger, cement mixer (hey what do I know), some plants, etc.   No BIG plan just a genuine pot-luck of plantings.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, gourds, (Jack has asked for no zucchini, but I think we can safely ignore him) .  Someone wondered about sweet corn and hey it’s fine with me remembering my motto “Let us throw every good thing against the wall….and see what sticks!”  2 Opinions 3:16.

By-the-way, coming Saturday does not COMMIT you to a whole summer of labor it just commits you to Saturday, and surely the kids or grandkids would enjoy the chance to get dirty.

If you can’t, can’t make it on Saturday, or don’t wanna garden please consider picking up some plants for us to plant (redundancy?) and just drop them by ACS Computers at 2213 Washington before Friday at 4pm. 

Remember the harvest of  Garden of Eatin’ will be going to the food bank, Family Crisis Center, and/or the Prodigal Ministries.
 

June 3, 2009

Hey Everybody,

Thought I better let you know what has come in, in the way of plants and gear

EQUIPMENT WE HAVE
1   4-Zone watering System, 2   50’ Hoses, 100’ of ½” Drip Irrigation Backbone hose, 50’ of ¼” parasite hose, 50  2gph emitters, 25  ¼” Barbs, Pressure reducers and  T’s,1 Set of cutting and punching tools to setup system, 1 Roll of Remesh to make cages out of  (I own bolt-cutters and lineman’s pliers), 1 Trash Sack of human hair  (someone suggested used kitty litter but let’s try the least stinky alternative first.

EQUIPMENT TO BRING OR PROVIDE:
More cages for smaller plants ($1.39 at Orschelin), Shovels, Hand Spades, Garden Weasel,  Knee Pads, Gloves, Fertilizer or Miracle Grow?, Mulch?, A hand watering wand for the initial watering-in of the plants.

PLANTS ALREADY IN HAND AT ACS COMPUTERS:
18 “Better Boy” tomato plants, 3  Bell Pepper plants

PLANTS TO CONSIDER PROVIDING (But feel free to choose others):
Cucumber (DO these come in “bread and butter” flavor?), Zucchini  (Jack’s personal favorite), Jalepeños, Banana, Jabañeros, Chili, etc., peppers, Pumpkins, Gourds and Squash, Melons

If you can’t be there Saturday just bring them by ACS Computers, 2213 Washington, Great Bend,  before 4pm on Friday.

Thanks guys and gals!

“If God had intended us to eat raw fruits and vegetables he wouldn’t have invented the electric juicer!”

1 Romulan 12:4