Garden Site Update

Things will be moving swiftly very soon. Make sure you and your teams are ready to participate. A tentative schedule is included. Keep in mind with gardens that everything is set in cardboard not concrete and be prepared to adjust. However, preparation precedes power.

 

Tentative schedule

• Tuesday April 21 Round up sites
  
• Deep till and or plow after April 25
  
• Fri May 1 Garden set up. Signs put up, irrigation pipe set up, rows marked off
  
• Planting Plan on being available every Sat, to be involved in some planting or preparation activity
  
  • Sat. May 2^nd first planting of onion garden and potato gardens at the Jensen Site.
    
  • Sat. May 9^th First planting of corn, both plots. Three more successive corn plantings every two weeks are planned.
    
  • Sat May 16^th planting pole beans and laying down of black plastic to warm the soil for planting squash and tomatoes. Pole bean planting will include setting up 4 twenty five foot lengths of wire paneling.
    
  • Friday May 29^th and Sat May 30^th planting winter squash, tomatoes and cucumbers
    
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  Weeding and fertilizing
  
  • The garden site coordinator will arrange for timely watering, coordinating with weeding and harvest.
    
  • Walk behind roto tilling between rows will be done weekly. Those assigned to roto tilling should coordinate with within row weeders and sprinkling schedule
    
  • Within row weeding and thinning will be done weekly as well. Fertilizing dates will be assigned to the within row weeding teams. The groups assigned to each garden should set up their schedule for weeding.. Make sure you check with the sprinkler schedule and roto tiller.
    
  • As the need arises insect management may be needed
    
• Processing
  
  • The Relief Society will be kept informed on the ripening progress when produce is ready to process, teams will be assigned to do so as a group at designates sites. Pole beans will probably be canned or made available for members to use fresh. Corn can be used fresh as needed. When sufficient quantities are available freezing processes will be held at designated sites. Tomatoes, peppers and onions can be processed as salsa, tomato juice or canned tomatoes.
    
• Harvesting and storage
  
  • Garden site coordinators will keep everyone abreast through the blog site, Sunday program, mass e-mailing, Friendshipper and home and visiting teachers as to how and when potatoes, onions and squash should be harvested. Harvest dates will be establilshed when necessary. Experts will teach us how and when to harvest, how and where to store
    

 

Catch the vision! Join in! Invite friends and neighbors to join! Be constantly aware of who has needs and would benefit from any of the programs Brother Gill