Wednesday, May 18, 2016

2016 Spring Update

Sorry for the hiatus between posts, but now that spring has rolled around, we’ve jumped back into gardening!


Thanks to Garden Club VPs Lianne Campbell and Janice Park, who have taken on a significant leadership role in preparation for leading the garden next year, we’re prepared a new system of hose reels in preparation for the upcoming growing season. Club members used to have to store the entire hose in the storage box, dragging it in and out and untangling it each time we needed to water. Needless to say, summer watering was a laborious workout for many!


Now, with our new hose reels, watering has been simplified dramatically. We have two reels by the storage box — one with a hose to the tap, and another hose to water either the immediate beds, or to be attached to a hose reel in the far garden to water the trees. There is now significantly less dragging around of the thick rubber hose through the grass, and hopefully will make watering easier and more fun!


As an added bonus, our storage box looks significantly less cluttered!


Finally, club members have also started planting new plants! Our new watermelons have sprouted under the warmth of our greenhouse cover, our strawberries from last year have started growing again (and look yummy!), and there's some new plants as well. We will also be starting a new initiative soon in dividing the beds into sections for community planting, and sections for individual planting.


More updates coming soon!

—William