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.
