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| For professional services, contact Susan at yourwed@interfaithceremonies.com |
After Q& A and announcements, many of us carpooled down to the garden, found our allotted spots and planted our identifying flags. Such creativity in our group.
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| and added a lot to our overall experience (no pun intended) |
Anyone up for spearheading a children's garden area?
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| Thanks to Mike for organizing our garden space this year |
And now for some worthwhile information:
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| Our manual pump - protected from the elements. Be sure to add to the water barrel when you take from it. |
The pump is securely installed, filled watering cans are available. Thanks Al and Peter for your efforts on this.
Pete will be offering an organic pest control workshop, 10 - 11 a.m. next Saturday, May 5, at the garden. Jerry Jordan has volunteered to videotape it, and Sharon will post it to YouTube, but there is nothing that compares with being there in person and having your questions answered in the moment.
Sharon is creating a "vacation schedule" to circulate, so we know when to look out for one another's gardens. If you want your garden added to the "watch list", send an e-mail with your vacation dates in the subject line to highvistagardeners@gmail.com. There is likely to be extra space in the garden; if you need any, let Sharon know.
Please take a look at the watch list when it is circulated and let a fellow gardener know that you are going to be able to tend their crop one or more days while they are away.
Since we're using a buddy system also for everyday tasks, as Mike Pace requested, it is worthwhile to remember that Lexi Kiefer will be gardening on Tuesday and Thursday mornings with her garden partner, Don Kirkwood, who is an experienced organic gardener willing to share his knowledge.
Winter squash and sweet potatoes will not be a community crop. Sharon and Susan Marlan have decided to plant some. Al Cutter has asked to help and share the harvest of sweet potatoes and Irma Allison has asked to share in the winter squash. If you have not yet spoken up to share this space, now is the time, not later.
Be prepared to watch as a "three sisters experimental garden" goes in and goes up near the corn crop.
Sharon has some grape tomato seedlings, up for grabs. They were grown in a greenhouse by a friend in New York and lovingly transported and tended in her sunroom since Easter. You can find them in the garden Tuesday, May 8 (primary election day), probably placed by the pump. First come, first served.
Here are some tips for planting tomatoes, shared by Janet Gardner, coordinator of the Bountiful Harvest Community Garden in Hendersonville. According to the weather forecast, the nighttime temps won't be below 50 degrees for the next ten days, so she's determined it's safe to plant.
Pete will be offering an organic pest control workshop, 10 - 11 a.m. next Saturday, May 5, at the garden. Jerry Jordan has volunteered to videotape it, and Sharon will post it to YouTube, but there is nothing that compares with being there in person and having your questions answered in the moment.
Sharon is creating a "vacation schedule" to circulate, so we know when to look out for one another's gardens. If you want your garden added to the "watch list", send an e-mail with your vacation dates in the subject line to highvistagardeners@gmail.com. There is likely to be extra space in the garden; if you need any, let Sharon know.
Please take a look at the watch list when it is circulated and let a fellow gardener know that you are going to be able to tend their crop one or more days while they are away.
Since we're using a buddy system also for everyday tasks, as Mike Pace requested, it is worthwhile to remember that Lexi Kiefer will be gardening on Tuesday and Thursday mornings with her garden partner, Don Kirkwood, who is an experienced organic gardener willing to share his knowledge.
Winter squash and sweet potatoes will not be a community crop. Sharon and Susan Marlan have decided to plant some. Al Cutter has asked to help and share the harvest of sweet potatoes and Irma Allison has asked to share in the winter squash. If you have not yet spoken up to share this space, now is the time, not later.
Be prepared to watch as a "three sisters experimental garden" goes in and goes up near the corn crop.
Sharon has some grape tomato seedlings, up for grabs. They were grown in a greenhouse by a friend in New York and lovingly transported and tended in her sunroom since Easter. You can find them in the garden Tuesday, May 8 (primary election day), probably placed by the pump. First come, first served.
Here are some tips for planting tomatoes, shared by Janet Gardner, coordinator of the Bountiful Harvest Community Garden in Hendersonville. According to the weather forecast, the nighttime temps won't be below 50 degrees for the next ten days, so she's determined it's safe to plant.
Garden tips: Planting tomatoes -
Transplants of all sizes and varieties are available now in nurseries
and big box stores everywhere. It is tempting to spend the extra money for
larger plants, many already with small fruit. However, these hothouse
beauties when planted out in your garden often go into plant shock which causes
arrested growth and abortion of fruit. Better to go with smaller,
stockier plants no taller than 6". Plant these deeply, up to the
first set of leaves, about 16" apart. Keep well watered for the
first week or so, then hold back the water a bit. The idea is to make the
plant roots grow down for moisture. In times of heat and drought
later, your plant will be better suited for survival with a strong,
deep root system. When planting try not to disturb the roots if
possible. For transplants in plastic pots, place your hand over the top of
the pot with the tomato stem between your fingers. Gently tap the plant
loose and plant in the ground immediately. For the tomatoes in either
peat or plantable pots (including my paper pots) put the whole thing in the
ground as is. Just be sure all of the pot is below the surface to avoid
the pot wicking moisture out.
Garden wisdom: There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you
were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them
smiling. ~Mirabel Osler
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| Our collective sentiments |
Calendar of Upcoming Transition Hendersonville Events
Monday, April 30, 10am-11am. NEW GARDEN GROUP FORMING ~
Henderson County Cooperative Extension.
We are forming an informal group of local gardeners - both
experienced and inexperienced, even gardener wannabes – who will meet
once a month to share gardening experiences, tips, seeds and local
challenges and quirks about growing, preserving and selling food in the
Hendersonville area. We invite you to join us and your neighbors whether you have several acres, a suburban plot or just one tomato
plant in a patio container, growing even a part of your own food is fun,
rewarding and so empowering.
Please call or email with questions. Janet Gardner luvs2garden@att.net (828) 974-1782Saturday, May 5th, 2012 5-7 pm, May Tree Dance, Full Moon Sacred Circle Dance the merry merry month of May in the springtime of the year with flowers & ribbons in our hair in doors and out! at Dancing Feete dance studio, Singleton Centre across from the post office, 2682 B Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock, NC., $10 per person, RSVP TarletonBrooks@yahoo.com only if you are coming www.thedancingcircle.info 828 – 699 – 0240
Saturday, May 12, Sustainable Living Workshop: Compost!
9:30AM-12:30PM, Coop. Extension, Jackson Park
Learn the basics of composting and go home with a worm bin including ½ pound of red wigglers. Composting lecture 9:30 to 11:00 and Worm Bin workshop at 11. Lecture $10 or lecture and w-shop $25. (Sharon Willen is attending both. Contact her if you want to go together.)
Saturday, May 19, Sustainable Living Workshop: Water Rams. 10:00 a.m. – Noon. ECO Conference Room Learn how these simple hydraulic pumps that have been used for over 100 years in WNC work and buy one for your household. Program fee $15.
Sunday, May 20, all are invited to join in a Slow Food Foothills aka “Slow Polks,” fundraiser at Overmountain Vineyards & Winery from 4-8 pm.
Come for an evening to enjoy local wine, seasonal food & Americana
music. Tickets for the event are available on Brown Paper Tickets. Cost for the event is $25 for adults, $10 for children ages 3-13.
Overmountain Vineyards & Winery is nestled at the gateway of the Blue Ridge Parkway on 75 beautiful acres. Originally a tobacco and cotton farm in the 1920′s and 30′s, the land was purchased in the early 1990′s, and has now returned to its roots. Overmountain Vineyards was established in 2002 as a commercial vineyard in the Tryon Foothills of North Carolina. They are recognized as one of North Carolina’s signature vineyards and wineries.
Stone Soup Restaurant is also located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and owned by Suzanne Strickland. Suzanne named the restaurant after the fairy tale which is a story of a community coming together. She thought it was a perfect name for a restaurant that she hoped would become a gathering place for the community and it has! Stone Soup will be catering the May fundraiser with a seasonal, casual buffet highlighting local food.
Entertainment will be provided by Gigi Dover and her band, The Big Love. The Big Love is primarily the creative partnership of singer/songwriter and guitarist Dover and multi- instrumentalist / magician Eric Lovell, whose bag of tricks includes vocals, guitar, pedal steel, sitar, tambura, melodica, ukulele, mandolin, even a glockenspiel. Together they weave a dreamy, quirky path that trips through styles, sounds and genres. It’s a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll and a whole lotta groovy, soulful, and funky fun. Their new CD is expected to be released on April 20. The media sponsor is WNCW our local public radio station.
In addition, a silent auction will be on site. For more information about Slow Food Foothills, contact Carol Lynn or Mindy Wiener.
Overmountain Vineyards & Winery is nestled at the gateway of the Blue Ridge Parkway on 75 beautiful acres. Originally a tobacco and cotton farm in the 1920′s and 30′s, the land was purchased in the early 1990′s, and has now returned to its roots. Overmountain Vineyards was established in 2002 as a commercial vineyard in the Tryon Foothills of North Carolina. They are recognized as one of North Carolina’s signature vineyards and wineries.
Stone Soup Restaurant is also located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and owned by Suzanne Strickland. Suzanne named the restaurant after the fairy tale which is a story of a community coming together. She thought it was a perfect name for a restaurant that she hoped would become a gathering place for the community and it has! Stone Soup will be catering the May fundraiser with a seasonal, casual buffet highlighting local food.
Entertainment will be provided by Gigi Dover and her band, The Big Love. The Big Love is primarily the creative partnership of singer/songwriter and guitarist Dover and multi- instrumentalist / magician Eric Lovell, whose bag of tricks includes vocals, guitar, pedal steel, sitar, tambura, melodica, ukulele, mandolin, even a glockenspiel. Together they weave a dreamy, quirky path that trips through styles, sounds and genres. It’s a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll and a whole lotta groovy, soulful, and funky fun. Their new CD is expected to be released on April 20. The media sponsor is WNCW our local public radio station.
In addition, a silent auction will be on site. For more information about Slow Food Foothills, contact Carol Lynn or Mindy Wiener.
