Garden Time!

Hello everyone!

There are still a number of great plots available at the community garden! They are $15 for the whole summer, and you get $10 back if you clean your plot up at the end of the season!

Having a garden is a great way to enjoy inexpensive, healthy, and delicious organic food all summer long. It would be a great summer project for families or individuals.

To sign up, come over to the garden any sunny morning M-F from 9-12 or Saturday from 10-12.

Naturesfinestseed.com

Big thanks to Naturesfinestseed.com for donating wildflower and lawn seeds for our garden!! It will truly be beautiful once everything starts to blossom!!!!

Egg-cellence

Here are some interesting ways to recycle egg shells for your garden:

1. Compost for Naturally Fertilized Soil
Eggshells quickly decompose in the compost pile and add valuable calcium and other minerals to the soil in the process.

2. Nontoxic Pest Control in the Garden
Scatter crushed eggshell around your plants and flowers to help deter plant-eating slugs, snails and cutworms without using eco-unfriendly pesticides. Also, deer hate the smell of eggs, so scattering eggshells around the flowerbed will help keep Bambi away from your begonias.

3. Splendid Seedling Starters
Fill biodegradable eggshell halves with potting soil instead of using peat pots to start seedlings for the garden. And an egg carton on the windowsill is the perfect way to start a dozen tomato seedlings in shells before transplanting to the garden in the spring.

Organic Fertilizing

Here is a link from the USU Extension about Organic garden fertilizers:

http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/factsheet/HG-510.pdf

Watering Plants in Utah

Watering Requirements for Native and Low Water Usage Plants:
- Julia B. Tuck, CLT
Horticulture Assistant, USU Cooperative Extension

Watering guidelines for the Wasatch Front:

General:
Water early in the morning
Water only at the dripline
Water deeply
Water infrequently to encourage deep roots
Keep leaves, stems, branches and trunks drive

Flower Beds:
Water 15" deep
Water 1 time a week when there is hot water, less often when cooler
*Native plants vary in their water needs.
Depending on your soil, you may need to "cycle" the water

Vegetables:
Water down 15" deep
Water 1 time a week when there is hot weather
Depending on your soil, you may need to "cycle" the water

cleanup event invite

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6492/p/salsa/event/common/public/index.sjs?event_KEY=26522

AmeriCorps Internship

There are 2 AmeriCorps Internship positions with the garden this summer, the duties include: Plan and run gardening classes, run and expand the childrens gardening program, recruit and train volunteer, and other day-to-day gardening activities! If interested please call or email me!!!