First Meeting

An enthusiastic group of gardeners met this evening at the site of our new garden. A nice crowd and a lot of excitement. Excitement about dirt, friends old and new and possibilities.

We discussed the gardening guidelines which stress the idea of a neighborhood garden and keeping things looking good for the neighbors who will look upon the garden out their back windows.

One fence will encircle the garden with one gate at each end. John and Andy will gather more specifics about prices for the fence and ideas about the gates. Feng Shui principles (as understood by John) indicate the formal entrance should be at the south end. More soon. John dug a post hole and declared that "it won't be bad".

We talked about a work day on the weekend of the 10th of May to construct the fence and get started with gardening.

Andy will follow up on getting a load or two of compost dumped in the garden for us to spread, preferably before the fence goes up.

Water for the garden will come from a hose tugged around the southwest corner of Allen School. The school will be donating the water. We'll need a few more lengths of hose to cover the whole garden.