It was touch and go at first -- I was out on my early morning run and had to take shelter from lightning, then finished the run in a steady rain. The rain was just what we needed, though, to make weeding a cinch! Nothing more than a few sprinkles occurred while we were out in the garden, and the sun came out at the end of our work. Glorious!
Great thanks to God, and to all the cheerful people who gathered to work together in the garden Saturday morning. We're off to a grand start!
This is a "before" picture -- if you look really close, you can see Larry out mowing the edges to get the garden ship-shape for our Saturday kickoff. Thank you, Larry!
All the rest of the pictures are from Saturday. We had a bunch of folks!
Maddie, our youngest gardener on Saturday, was all decked out and prepared for rain or shine!
Here are some of the Holston Valley Unitarian Universalist Church gardeners, getting their four beds ready:
Master Gardener Phil works on adding compost into the Master Gardener bed:
A long view:
Margot weeds one of the handicap-accessible beds:
Paul shovels compost to add to the soil in his garden:
Karen and Sydney get ready to plant potatoes in the Social Security Administration's bed:
Christine ended up taking an extra bed, in addition to working on the four for the HVUUC:
Taylor (and Christine, and Ann, behind him) is all smiles:
Emily gets compost for her bed. Emily is a Girl Scout, and was joined by her mom, granddad and her troop leader, Liz. Emily will be the project manager for her raised bed as part of her Scouting.
Look at all of us!
Mayme and Jackie work on one of Ms. Mayme's beds:
Taylor and Jane take a short chat break:
The sun! Nicole finished planting her bed and then helped weed the others:
Ms. Louella showed up toward the end because of earlier commitments, but she was there in time to get her bed started with some onions:
Nancy waters the potatoes, under their mulch cover of straw:
Clarence, after prepping and planting two 4x12 beds for Kitchen of Hope, finishes up the community herb bed, for all the gardeners to share:
Our next team meeting will be on April 3 -- we'll meet at the garden at 5:30 and maybe walk over to the meeting room at First Prebyterian after some time in the garden. Join us if you can!
Other dates to note:
April 22 -- Earth Day -- we'll gather at the garden at 4 p.m. We can work together for a while, and then maybe have a short speaker on something Earth-Day related. Specific plans aren't yet made, in other words! But gardening together should be enough, if nothing else.
May 12 -- Late-spring planting kickoff -- this is when we can start to plant summer crops: tomatoes, peppers, bush beans and the like. We'll gather on a Saturday morning (maybe a little earlier to beat the heat) just like this weekend.
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