Hello Gardeners, Thank you Marilyn for delivering some cardboard boxes over the weekend :-) We need more cardboard. We have plenty of newspaper. We need a fence (chain link, uh - - - wood is nice :-) and 6' to 10' gate for the front of the garden. Amanda's husband Joseph is going to make membership cards for us - - - thank you Joseph! In the sink you will find coffee cans (used to fill the concrete block holes with dirt), a blue tube of Marie's bug repellant/sunblock, box cutters and a garbage bag. I saved the rope from the bales and the cord used for the plumb lines and stored them in a coffee can. Today (Sunday) - - - Amanda, her 6-yr old daughter Amiah and 7-yr old son Joseph, and Ann and Tony and I were at the garden site. Ann and Tony attached the two missing legs for the sink but had another commitment for the day. Amanda, Amiah, Joseph, and I set up four more garden plots! Amiah and Joseph helped with the straw, watering, spraying us with water (ha), and putting dirt in the concrete block holes. Eleanor came by to see the progress we made and to say "Hi". We all decided to call it a day around 1 pm. Four more plots are now built up with cardboard/newspaper/straw/ manure.
They are watered and the manure chunks have been smushed! Before
leaving I opened loads of newspaper, folded the packs, and left them on
the ground with rocks on top. Tomorrow (Monday) - - - Unexpectedly I can't be at the site in the early morning. I may stop by for a while mid- to late morning or late afternoon. I will be there Tuesday morning. Here are the tasks to choose from for anyone who is at the site tomorrow, Monday: 1. Place cardboard (if available), 20-30 sheets of overlapping newspaper, 1/2 bale of straw, and a light 1 inch covering of manure in the last two plots. If no cardboard is available, just use an additional 20-30 sheets of newspaper. Water between layers. Smush the manure chunks. 2. Fill holes with the light tan dirt. Once we use up that dirt pile in the back, we can put in two more plots (if we get more donations to purchase the block:-) 3. Water the eight plots that were started. 4. Start adding the alfalfa hay (1/3 to 1/2 bale) to each plot and water. Add the second thin 1 inch layer of manure over the hay and water. This second layer of manure is the last layer of manure and we really really really need to smush, kneed, disintegrate the formed chunks in this layer. This layer will be closest to the plant roots. Don't forget your drinking water, gloves, hat, sunblock, and sneakers or shoes you don't mind getting dirty and smelly. Mary |
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