Pictures from June

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Compost & Beds

Linda, Allison, John and Sharon met at the garden last Monday (May 24) to check the compost and discuss options for creating raised beds. We walked around the ranch and looked at many materials available to recycle into the bed construction. We like the idea of using existing containers like tubs, crates and cabinets which are already on site. We also saw concrete chunks, rocks, pallets, wooden planks, beams we thought we could utilize. Sharon agreed to move some of the concrete chunks and rocks to the garden area so we can collect and start designing and installing the beds.

Chuck and Stacey tilled the soil and added manure for in-ground beds on one side of the garden. They did a great job digging! yay. Chuck has been tending and planting for the revegetation of Lake Chuckawalla. The datura and grasses are looking good.

We plan to met next Monday (June 7) at 8 am for a composting session. We are going to fill the Compost Tumbler and get the first load cooking. Please feel free to bring your appropriate “garbage” and join us. And, yes, we decided we could use more manure!

Thanks!

Sharon
520-896-2123

Horehound & Hens

Hi all,

This blog entry is actually about two very exciting OCG updates:
1. Horehound, and
2. Chicken Wire!

A wonderful group of students from Sierra Oaks came out on Friday morning to help us continue momentum on preparations of the garden.

1.  One of the tasks for the morning was to start weeding the area, especially of Horehound, which has been informally labelled as “the enemy.”

For those unfamiliar with Horehound, it is an herb indigenous to Europe, often used in herbal remedies for congestion of the respiratory passages.  It is also incredibly invasive if not controlled, and it has run amuck in the garden’s viscinity!

So the goal is to remove all the horehound within about a 20-foot radius of the garden, to protect it from future and further invasion.

2.  Before we plant anything in the garden, it was previously agreed that we need to make sure that whatever we grow needs to be protected.  So Friday morning, a group of us tackled a few salvaged rolls of chicken wire.  As of now, almost 5 feet of chicken wire above-ground and 1 foot below (smaller mesh size) have been wrapped around the semi-circle structure of the garden.  If anyone knows someone with extra chicken wire lying around, please ask if they would be willing to donate to our cause!

And now, for your viewing pleasure, a few pictures for a visual update from Friday.  Thank you again to the Sierra Oaks group for coming out to work with us.  They brought great energy to the garden, and we hope to have them over again!

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Oracle Community Garden — Pictures!

Hi all,

A late-night reminder that we’ll be doing 1.5 hours of weeding, digging, and maybe chicken-wiring tomorrow (Friday) morning 8:30am-10am if you have a tiny bit of free time. 🙂

Hope to see you there!

Stacey
408.398.9216

Oracle Community Garden — Pictures!

Hi everyone,

We are long overdue for an update on the Community Garden. There are some exciting things going on. What are they, you ask?

Pictures!
Here is a link to the pictures of the garden thusfar, for those who have not seen its recent progression.
Blog: https://gardenoforacle.wordpress.com/

How to stay updated!
On the right hand side of the blog, 1) enter your email address and 2) click “PLEASE SEND ME EMAILS!”. So easy! So you know, you can unsubscribe any time just as easily.

Anyone can post!!
I really have to tell you how excited I am that TECHNOLOGY enables us to gather our thoughts and information in one place so easily!!

If you want to send any info, questions, ideas, photos, etc. to contribute to the website, just send an email to fico019lipa@post.wordpress.com, and whatever you write in the body of the email will be posted to the blog! (The subject line of your email will be the title of the blog entry.) You can also attach a picture to the email, and it will magically appear in the blog entry.

As a demonstration, I will also send this email to fico019lipa@post.wordpress.com, and you can see it appear on the blog. 🙂

Update — Work day opportunity!
A handful of junior high-schoolers from Sierra Oaks Community School will be working on the garden structure (and maybe the soil) on this Friday, May 7 from 8:30am to 10:00am. If you would like to come out for an hour or two and help us put up chicken wire, set interior posts, or start tackling the soil……. that would be SO HELPFUL!

What to bring: Gloves, a shovel (if you have one), and your enthusiasm!! (Enthusiasm especially recommended.)

Questions? Call 520.623.6732 (Triangle L) or 408.398.9216.

See you soon!

–Stacey

Community Garden Pictures from April!

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Planning out the gate to the garden structure

Steel, glorious steel!

The exterior posts are all up!

Connecting the posts with horizontal steel members

Detail!

Digging holes for the interior posts

The main gate is looking good so far!

Interior post holes dug, and done for the day!

Time to sit and relax in the garden

Where the main gate will go!

A lot of progress thus far, with plenty left to do.  🙂

Photo by Kyle, from April 2

Mixing concrete and putting up posts
for the exterior of the garden structure.

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Community Garden Pictures from March

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March 13 — Garden with Irrigation In!

March 13 — Filling the Irrigation Trenches

March 28 — Containers & Trenches for Perimeter Protection

March 28 — Donated Materials to Date!

March 28 — View through the brush

March 28 — View with Lake Chuckwalla

How does it look?