April 10, 2010

Riverview Community Garden Opens the 2010 Season

Dear Riverview Community Garden Gardeners,

Welcome to the 2010 season! 

The garden got off to a brilliant start with new and old gardeners chucking the weeds and kicking up the soil in preparation for a new season of planting.   Thanks to the many hours of back breaking mulching by Ivan and Mario last year, very few weeds returned to the common areas along the fence this spring.  Most of the clearing and cleaning was finished today.  Going forward gardeners can focus on the detailed trimming, tough weeding and individual plot planting and care. 

The Composting Crew, Kao, Beverly, Melissa, Matt and Bob will be taking care of the composting bins for the season.   They are looking into expanding the current dual bin system into a three bin system.  In the meantime, please continue to put your raw vegetable and fruit scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds, tea leaves, and any seaweed you might have into the open uncovered bin.  Please put nothing in the covered bin.   Please do not put any “brown” composting materials such as leaves, twigs, straw and sawdust etc. into either of the bins.   This kind of material has to be mixed into the compost bin very carefully.  The Composting Crew will work together to make sure the materials are mixed in a balanced fashion.  Please also refrain from turning and rotating the composting materials.   This requires scheduling, which the crew will coordinate. 

All you have to do is drop off your “green” compost materials and your “brown” compost materials in the designated locations.  Please look for and read new signs on the bins and a compost material guide book in the shed.  If you are interested in joining the crew, just let Ivan know.   Melissa is going to invite a composting guru from Earth Matter, a composting organization in New York to speak to us about best composting practices, so look for the announcement from Ivan.

If you have photos to publish on this blog please send them to me: writebbr@gmail.com 

Happy Gardening!