Friday 2/11

St. Mary’s Growers:

We gathered some bamboo last Monday! The shredder is all fixed. On Monday ~5p we can start shredding ground trimmings from last Fall. We can turn compost. We can start adding some trellis poles. 

We do not have any other work days planned this week. If you want to work at another time, feel free to stop by the shed. There you can see a to-do list in the notebook. Please text Jason for the shed combination: 466-6193. Thanks for your help. 

Tom Thornton, Walter Dykas, and George Hine helped gather and handle the bamboo. We offer special thanks to Pedro Souto for allowing us onto his property to gather bamboo and Fred Wetzel for helping us find Pedro.

Crop Rotation

We try to plan our 6 main beds to be in a 3 year rotation. We post the rotation in the garden shed door with the diagram below labeled with the crops that will be in main summer season beds. This file goes to our crop rotation plan: St. Mary's 6 bed crop rotation

Visit to UT Compost

We recently organized a trip to the UT Compost facility to see what an industrial scale compost facility look like. Here’s my report: UT Compost Facility Visit

Plans for 2022

Here is the new pole bean trellis proposal.

Here is the proposal for season extension.

Here is the crop rotation for St. Mary’s garden.

This was a production plan for St. Mary’s, but it is now a file full of dimensions and harvest data.

Friday 2/4

This coming Monday evening 2/7 ~5pm at St. Mary’s garden we will meet to work on getting bamboo, fixing the chipper/shredder, and/or clearing out some space. 

New this year at St. Mary’s garden: 

A website hosted by Grow Oak Ridge: https://www.growoakridge.org/stmarys

A compost operation 

New trellises for pole beans

Season extension 

Fence line weed control

We plan to work Monday evenings, Wednesday mornings, and Saturdays or whenever you can get there. Please stay in touch. Please let me know if you want to receive a weekly text or email (usually sent on Fridays). Please let me know if you DO NOT want to receive my text and email messages. Thanks, Jason