2014 Weekly Assignment

Glebe Garden Club Weekly Assignment Sheet

2014 Season

Key:	Facts:
A	Mow all common areas, including outside fence.  Trim around common areas and trees where mower does not go.
B	Pick up trash inside and outside the garden.  Take full trash containers to curb and return emptied containers to the garden.

Saturday	A —- Mowing	B —- Trash Pick-up
Feb 9	XXXX
Feb 23	XXXX
March 9	XXXX
March 23	XXXX
April 6
April 13
April 20
May 4
May 11
May 18
May 22
May 25
June 1
June 8
June 15
June 22
June 29
July 6
July 13
July 20
July 27
Aug 3
Aug 10
aug 17
Aug 24
Aug 31
Sept 14
Sept 28
Oct 12
Oct 26
Nov 2	XXXX
Nov 16	XXXX
Dec 4	XXXX
Dec 18	XXXX
Jan  4	XXXX
Jan 18	XXXX

ONGOING ASSIGNMENTS

If you are going to be gone from your garden for more than a week, contact:

Scott Harwood (theharwoods@earthlink.net)

Equipment maintenance & problems,  contact  or report problems to:

Scott Harwood (theharwoods@earthlink.net)

Report thefts to:

Scott Harwood (theharwoods@earthlink.net)

Prior approval of club expenditure, contact:

Marti Klein  (cummingslc@aol.com)

Annual Meeting Minutes – 2011

2011 Annual Meeting Minutes

We will vote to approve these at this year’s Annual Meeting – Saturday March 3, 2012

April Mulch Delivery

The April mulch delivery has arrived, please use as needed!

April Cleanup 2011

This Saturday (April 9th) from 10AM to 1PM is our first monthly clean-up of the 2011 Gardening Season! The plan for this Saturday is to focus on the common areas, both inside and outside our Gardens, the compost piles, and preparing the tools for the season.

Following the clean-up, we will have hot dogs so that everyone can get to know one another, especially our new gardeners.

IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND, please let us know so that we can estimate how many will be joining us for lunch. Also, if you are WILLING TO BRING SOMETHING, let us know.

Our goal is to keep the general distribution of messages down to a minimum. Mass mailings are intended for sharing important information to all members, not questions or complaints. Questions can usually be answered by one of the officers. Please direct your questions, suggestions, or complaints to Mike and me or any other officer rather than the mass mailing.

Looking forward to seeing you Saturday.

Candiss & Mike

March 2011 Email Rollup

Rocks:

Please deposit rocks, stones, bricks and similar items on plot #69. This will keep them out of the trash cans. Plus the rocks will be available to those who have a use for them. [Marti uses rocks to hold down her landscape cloth paths. Also, flat stones make good stepping stones in a squash bed and her compost bins are made from reclaimed cinder blocks.]

Pots, Cages, Etc:

Please deposit any reusable pots, cages, stakes, etc. in Plot #72. Please also feel free to take anything you can use from the plot. This reduces the cost to your fellow gardeners and keeps usable items out of Arlington’s waste stream.

Spring Plot prep:

Please don’t throw your best soil away as you prepare to plant!

As you prepare your plot this spring, if you pull weeds instead of turning them under, please put them in one of the several common use compost piles. This is good stuff — definitely not trash.

Scott rescued a wheelbarrow full of soft green spring weeds and rich top soil from a garbage can inside our gate. This bounty is just what we need to pile on top of the hard stalks left in the compost piles from fall cleanup. The combination of the green weed tops and a little soil left on the roots will fill in the voids in the pile and speed decomposition of the harder organic material we put in the compost late last summer.

We’ll stay in good stead with the garbage man, too — they hate lugging heavy bins of rich soil-laden organic material to the land fill.

2011 Annual Meeting of the Glebe Garden Club

2011 Annual Meeting of the Glebe Garden Club
(Saturday, February 5, 2011 @10:00)

Calvary United Methodist Church
2315 S. Grant St. (Corner of Grant and 23rd St.)
Arlington Va 22202

Please see email for more details.

FINAL Monthly Cleanup, Sat, Nov. 6, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm + Announcements

It’s that time again. Our FINAL Monthly Cleanup is this weekend. This will be our last weekend and last month for everyone to put their plot to rest. Pathways must be cleared of weed. Tools must be properly stored in the shed and labeled with your name and plot number.

Due to Thanksgiving that is coming up in about two weeks or so, December 11 is the ABSOLUTE deadline for all plots to be left fallow.

MONTHLY CLEANUP: When: Saturday, Nov. 6
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

It’s expected to be 50 degree, so where something warm.

As always everyone, THANK YOU for your help in the beautification of our precious URBAN OASIS.

See you Saturday!

Monthly Cleanup, Sat, Oct 2, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm + Announcements

Attention GGs:

It’s that time again. Our Monthly Cleanup is this weekend.

MONTHLY CLEANUP: When: Saturday, October 2
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

It’s expected to be 67 degree, so it will be the most pleasant cleanup weekend to work in. I look forward to seeing you all out there. Bring all your gardening tools and H2O.

REMINDER: If you are not planting fall crops, please start letting your plot lie to fallow. It will help to restore the fertility of your soil.

INSPECTION: Again, I will make another round of inspection. I have noticed that some plots have been abandon and there are a lot of weeds growing in the plot and invasive vines growing on the fences. Please tend to your plot as soon as possible.

As always everyone, THANK YOU for your help in the beautification of our garden. Our garden is such a small and precious URBAN OASIS, so we are quite lucky to be able to have such a place to go unwind.

See you Saturday!

Thank yous and Annoucements Sept 3rd

Thank you to those who will be helping out with the cleanup this Labor Day weekend. I’ll be out of town so I’ve asked our Assistant Chief Gardeners, Scott Harwood, plot #6 and Mike Hackerson, plot #1&2 to oversee the monthly cleanup. Phew! I’m glad they both are staying in town.

CLEANUP
My biggest pet peeve about our garden is the pathways and individual plots not being cleared of weeds which eventually spread and encroaches into neighboring plots.

PATHWAYS: If this is clear of weeds, your neighbors shouldn’t need to worry about weeds spreading or encroaching on their plot. So please help each other keep the pathways clear.

PLOTS: There should be more vegetables growing than weeds. There are a few plots that really need to get to this right away. Since it’s nearing fall and if you are not preparing for fall growing season, the best thing to do right now is to uproot everything in your plot and start all over again. Clear the weed underneath your timbers, pathways and your plot. This is a sure thing that you will start on the right path. Tutu can help guide you, send her an email. My weekend schedule should be cleared for quite sometimes when I come back next week.

PLOT WITH FENCES: You are required to clean around this area. Pull vines, clear weeds, etc., off the fences.

CLEANUP EXEMPTIONS: If your health and doctor do not permit you to do heavy lifting and vigorous work, you are EXEMPTED from doing hard labor. Please do not attempt to do any of the heavy work. Instead, you can pull all the vines on the fences or pick up trash.

HERE IS WORK YOU CAN DO ON YOUR OWN:

* first and foremost, weed your plot and pathways.
* pull vines off the fences facing Lang St. and Glebe Road So.
* organize the materials on the COMMON PLOT #72 (David Ward plot is near that plot so be courteous as to not use it as a dumping ground. It’s an eyesore).
* turn the COMMON POST BINS
* recycle any metal scrap (ask Scott about where to dump them)
* organize the sheds and keep inventory
* fix the common tools
* etc.

Remember everyone, garden cleanup is a daily and weekly thing. You don’t need to wait for our monthly cleanup.

Please shoot Tutu an email if you have any questions or suggestions.

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!

Whitney Long has done it again! She WON so multiple BLUE RIBBONS for her produce in the Arlington County Fair 2010!

Monthly Cleanup, Aug. 7, Saturday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm + Announcements

SATURDAY, AUG 7, @9:00 am – 12:00 pm: we are resuming our Monthly Cleanup this coming Saturday. I would like everyone to work on the pathways around his/her plot. Some pathways are getting out of hand. You have got to really pull the weeds out before you put down the woodchips or all that hard work that you put in, will be wasted. I will also be going around the garden to see if everyone’s plot is being tended to.

TESTING EMAILS LISTSERVE: I’m sending two sets of emails lists using Bcc and the listserv. We are migrating to our new email listserve so that you don’t have to put in tons of emails individually. ONLY garden members can use this email. Since we made the migration, some of you have told me that you have not been getting my email all summer, so I’m testing this out again.

JULIE GLUR, plot #45: Would like to put her dog up for adoption. If you are interested in adopting a dog into your loving home, please email her ASAP. She will be able to tell you more about her situation. Please, please, please….

Thanks to Beth, plot #15 and Jenny, plot #48: I was able to donate 6 pounds of produce to AFAC on Saturday following your information. See below.

PLOT AGAINST HUNGER

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At the Garden:

Thursday by 6 pm

Place items in a bag or box on the benches between the shed and gate on Lang St nearer Glebe Rd

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AFAC

2708 S. Nelson Street

Arlington 22206

Monday – Friday , 8:30-5:00

Saturday mornings 8:30-11:00.

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Courthouse farmers Market

Master Gardener’s Desk

Saturday 8am-noon

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On Sunday mornings ONLY

Rock Spring United Church of Christ

Little Falls Road

Produce can be put into the cooler near the covered walkway entrance to the church offices

Here are a few guidelines that the Coordinator gave me:

* We ask that the produce be edible — no whopper zucchini’s that can’t be eaten easily for instance, or lettuce that’s bolted — and that everything be clean.
* If there are tender herbs like basil, those are best brought directly to AFAC early on weekday or Saturday mornings before 9:00 am, so they can be distributed that morning.
* Ideally, herbs & unusual vegetables should be labeled individually, since some staff and volunteers can’t identify them (not everyone is a gardener J)
* It is best to bag into reasonable family size portions (for 4), although we have volunteers who do bag produce.

A GENEROUS OFFER FROM BOB RAMSEY, PLOT, #65: Grape Harvesting and Wine Making Lesson: Some of us are planning to go down to Nelson County for this event on Labor Day weekend. If you are interested in joining, please email me.

From JULIE CORBY, PhD Candidate:

* Hello, All.
* I have had the opportunity to introduce myself to some of you, others I have not. My name is Julie Corby, and I am conducting dissertation research on Arlington Community Gardens. I am collecting surveys as part of that research. Some of you have already submitted surveys, and I am pleased to have your support of my project. For those of you who have not had a chance to complete a survey, I have now made it easier!
* To fill out and submit your responses, you just have to click on the link below, or copy and paste it into your internet browser.
* http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ArlingtonCommunityGardenSurvey
* It only takes about 10 minutes to fill out, but each individual survey makes a big difference in my study! And, your responses are completely anonymous. So please, if you have not filled one out, please do so. I appreciate each and every one, as I literally cannot finish my dissertation without your support. I will be collecting surveys all the way through the growing season and the winter (until you start planting next year’s crops), so if you didn’t fill one out because you thought you had missed the opportunity, you still have plenty of time.
* Also, if you would be interested in talking in greater depth about your gardening experience, just reply to this email. I would love to interview you!
* I have attached some information about my project if you are interested. The first page of the survey also contains much of the information in the project information sheet attached.
* Thanks and have a great day and a great harvest!

See you Saturday!