The Sweet Briar Community Garden

Hello All,
Well, for better or worse, Alix gave me permission to post on the SBCGBLOG, so I thought I would do a brain dump on y’all starting with my experience mowing inside the garden with the renewed ‘Jaffe 2002′ riding mower last week.  I spent a couple hundred dollars and several days time tearing down [...]

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1- Clean up Herb Plot.  Remove weeds with shovel/spadel.
2- Finish Cleaning the rest of the CSA beds (nearly done).
3- Clean up and prep strawberry hill.  Make terraces? When available, plant with new plants.
4- Prepare tree planting area near Olga’s plot.
5- Mow, Mow, mow
6- Clean up the garden to get ready for Cinco de Mayo!
7- Continue removing wiregrass [...]

Posted by Jane:
Working late at night on a(nother) paper, I found this poem that seems timely.  I would put it on a new post, but can’t figure out how to start one.  This is from A.R. Ammons’ “Four Motions for the Pea Vines”:
the rhythm is
  diffusion and concentration:
in and out:
       expansion and
contraction: the unfolding,
  furling:…
       the rhythm is
       out and 
       in,
       diffusion [...]

A message from Tim:
The main water line is closed off so that I can replace hardware for line extension to the area surrounding Katia’s plot. Please do not use; should be connected by tomorrow or Wed. at latest. We should have some rain today and tomorrow, so plants you just put out should [...]

Building the gate
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Garden vegetables
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