First Peppers! and the Lavender Festival Tour of Gardens
Greetings St. Mary’s Gardener: Thanks for keeping up with our news. We work hard to serve our neighbors at the St. Joseph’s food pantry with freshly grown food from our garden without depleting our soil resources. Please enjoy our news and stay in touch. Please note our wish list toward the bottom of this message if you would like to donate to our cause.
Thank you to those who donated supplies and funds we received some weed cover and a small pallet recently.
I made an initial purchase using funds from the Pope Francis Charitable Trust Fund. We just received new harvesting bins. In the next few days we will receive some new weeding tools to try. Next I plan to purchase some seed.
Work Days
Monday, 6/13 ~6PM we might replant corn, hoe and weed pathways and under plants, maintain the tomato trellis, and maybe plant some more okra.
Tuesday, 6/14 Evening harvest. Please get in touch with Jason if you plan to help.
Wednesday, 6/15 Morning harvest and delivery. Please get in touch with Jason if you plan to help.
Of course we welcome gardeners who want to work at any time. Please let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to give me a call or a text and we can think through a small project that will make a difference in the garden.
The Lavender Festival Tour of Gardens
Next Friday 6/17 from 1-4, Saturday 6/18 from 3-6, and Sunday 6/19 from 1-4 we will have visitors in the St. Mary’s garden for the Lavender Festival Tour of Gardens. Let’s work hard on Monday to make the garden look nice. If possible, please volunteer to be in the garden just for fun during the tour. Please brag about your involvement and our mission!
Deacon Gary Sega was cleaning up lettuce when he was presented with our first three peppers of 2022!
This is not a record week, but our greens look healthy. They will continue for a few more weeks. By then we will start to have some tomatoes and peppers. The values on this chart represent approximate cash value of each unit that we harvest. For example, $12 of collards at $3/bunch means that we harvested 4 bunches. Basil and cilantro are $2/bunch. Everything else is $3/bunch.
Wish List
-We need leaves, shredded yard trimmings, and straw and grass clippings for compost and mulch (no sticks, no herbicide)
-Work gloves for little people and children
-We are trying to build more than one Johnson-Su Bioreactor (an interesting composting method). We are looking for the supplies listed on their site: How To Build Your Own Bioreactor
Here’s the list of bioreactor supplies. I am sure that we can find most of these locally.
These supplies are for one reactor. We hope to make multiple reactors.
Landscape cloth (woven, minimum 5 oz.): Piece One: 13’ x 6’, Piece Two: 6’ x 6’, Piece Three: 6’ x 6’
One standard, sturdy shipping pallet with dimensions of approximately 40” x 48”
Wire re-mesh (6” x 6” x 10-gauge wire), used to create a 5’ x 12’ 6” supporting wire cage. This type of remesh is normally used for reinforcing concrete. Be sure to use re-mesh as horse fencing or other similar wire fence products have insufficient vertical strength to hold the cage in position as you fill it.
Four 10’ lengths of perforated, bell-end, 4” septic system drain field piping
Tie wire (normally used to tie rebar together)
-If you wish to make a financial donation please mention the St. Mary’s Community garden in the comment section of the donation page at St. Vincent de Paul Society (St. Joseph Food Pantry) .
We do not need any seedlings at this time. But we can help you find a home through our network of growers.
