Newsletter Fall 2018

Apples! Squash! Gourds! Fall is a wonderful time for gardens, and MCG is no exception. And it's the tail end of harvest. Time to get cooking!

Also, now is a good time to plan for spring. Lay cardboard and leaves and other bio materials to prep your space. The cardboard will kill the grass and reduce weeding!

Midland Community Gardens succeeded in pleasing the many visitors to the garden during season.   And that is in spite of late spring‘s still-frozen ground, followed by drought and a record number of “heat warning” summer days, and too many ‘too-wet-to-work' days this fall

Midland Community Garden “winterizing” is steadily progressing. Peter Murray wins  the first-to-finish WHAM prize for completing the weeding, harvesting, and mulching of the Spiral Herb Garden

Most of the rental beds are well on the way. Thank you to  Susan, Karole, Monique, Nanette, Joe, Jennifer, Morgan, Elija, Milka, and Jenny.  A reminder to renters: there is still triple mix available for top dressing your beds, and chicken wire for holding down leaf cover is in the shed. The triple mix and a sled for moving it and/or wood-chip mulch is under the black tarp near the north compost bins. Make an appointment  with Julie to get chicken wire.  First come, first served.

The compost bins and small ‘insitu’ ones situated throughout the whole garden can receive your garden weeds and leaves from home. Just leaves and not oak please!. Chopped leaves will compost quickest. Weather is not proving helpful for drying the leaves so they will chop better when you run over them with your mower. Thank you to Jean, Pat, and Morgan for compost work.

Fall Projects:

Julie is still hopeful of completing the Hugel bed in the raised bed/rental area.

The creating of a Medicine Wheel Garden on our first Hugel mound is moving forward, slowly but hopefully surely! Thank you to Janet and TJ for clearing the sunflowers and weeding the ‘mound’.

The weeding of the ground around the apple trees has been completed, thanks to Monique, Trish, and Julie. Pruning and possibly some wrapping and trunk-painting to follow soon.

Mulching and weeding  are perennial tasks. Thank to us all and Cory. More of it will continue until cold and snow force us inside! Web-siting is also perennial. Thank you, Peter Ladage. And thank you, Laura Jane, for Facebook help.

Julie at 705-526-0740  or jwb@bellnet.ca