The Sweet Briar Community Garden

Great news, the new water main has been finished, and is ready to be used.

Please note that the valve open and closed positions have been written on the pipe.  I will have a more permanent sign made up and installed shortly.

My thanks to Ken Huus for all of his help.  I couldn’t have done it alone, so next time you see Ken, give him a big thank you!!!

Thanks to everyone for their patience, and enjoy the new water line, better pressure, and more water flow.

Scott

Join us on Sunday, March 21, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM for a garden workday. Help us win the war on wiregrass!

Workdays this year will be clustered. Here’s Tim’s description of how it works:

Notes from last year indicate five periods of increased need for community activity in the garden, each about two weeks long. The days to begin the work are St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, the summer solstice, mid-summer day (July 15th), and around the beginning of school. When each of these dates occurs, we need everyone to pitch in and work at the garden (completing teamwork or workday activity) as much as possible over the two week period. Most of the work seemed to be focused around the production of the hot sauce (prepping, planting, weeding). With the ‘garden basics’ teams working a lot this year, it may not be as necessary. We could have the initial workday period, and call the others if necessary. But, there was definetely a need for something to be done over the previous years. Hot Sauce harvest and production occurs in the fall and could be considered a sixth clustered workday period.

You can now sign up for teams directly. Click the “members” tab, review the chart of members and their teams, and click on “Click here to join teams.” Submit your choices. Clicking again on the “members” tab will give you the updated chart.

All garden members are now able to post directly to the site. You need to log on to the site to do this. On the Dashboard page, you can enter your post in QuickPress on the right-hand side of the screen, or click “New Post” on top. When you’re done, click the blue “Publish” button.

First 30 min-1 hour

-Drink coffee or tea (bring your own)

-Memberships

Introduce new members (who are present)

Cover basic memberships:  SBCG Gardener, Garden Friends, Veggie Heads, and Non-SBC

Approve any non-SBC member requests

-Garden Basics

Talk for a couple minutes about each of the five “Garden Basics Teams”.  Team leader can discuss function in the garden.  Sign up for a team (or switch).  Each team will meet briefly before leaving.     See members page on this site for more info.

-Web update

Alix will talk about the website and using it throughout the season

-Workdays

Select workday(s) and decide attendance requirements (clustered workdays?, minimum number?)

11:00-1:00

-Mill about

-Project work

Select from ongoing projects,  clean up own plot, clean ground cover, etc.

-Departure

Whenever you are ready.

Thanks for attending!

Have you ordered your seeds yet? It’s time to get peppers and tomatoes started!

Tim has called a reunion/workday meeting at the garden on Saturday, March 6, from 10:00 to 1:00. We’ll be assembling our teams and getting some work done, as well as talking about the Glyphosate issue.

We have some exciting construction projects coming up. Scott will be taking the lead on the installation/extension of the water lines. This year we will be working on the new shed and trellises. Here are Tim’s sketches for that project and two conceptual sketches that take us well into the future.

Pavilion and New Shed (with trellises)

New shed with stone wall detail

Projected southern corner layout

Projected southern layout