Post #2 - Sunday, April 27,2014

Have you signed up on Doodle yet? 

Cheryl Bosley emailed a Doodle calendar to the addresses of everyone who has signed up for working in the Youth Garden at Raab Park.  Please take a look at the calendar and sign-up for the days that you can put in 3 hours in the garden.  If you are having any problem receiving emails, please let me know and I will make sure that you receive the information you are missing. Just contact me at betsikurz@yahoo.com or 206-201-3285.  We need to know how many Master Gardeners to bring treats for and it will help us to calculate how many projects we can get done in a work PARTY!

The Earth Day "Elves" Were in the Garden

These are rare photographs of the Earth Day "Elves" with their teacher from West Sound School.  They spent two hours of their Earth Day planting potatoes in planter #2 and onions in half of planter #5, as well as harvesting 14 pounds of rhubarb (and a couple of leeks) and delivering them to Fishline.  Though one young elf had a peculiar affection for snails, they did an excellent job of weeding, turning soil, and planting.  Thank you Ms. Jennifer Silvernail and her 7th grade students from West Sound.  Stop by anytime to check up on the potatoes and onions.  Be sure and take home some snails with you too!

 

The April 24th Work Party

 

A small group with great stamina met at the garden at 9am last Thursday for the first work PARTY.  We weeded and planted cool weather veggies. 

 

Planter #20 has a "rabbit sacrifice" of bush peas around it's outside edge and vining peas are protected under plastic bottle "greenhouses" in the center.  There are more vining peas to be planted and the box will be divided so that the children may run through it to see what will be squash tunnels.

 

Martha and Judy took two crumbling strawberry towers were combined to make one that is not falling apart.  Judy is planting the new tower this weekend.

 

Nancy planted 5 rows of beets between planter #24 & #25. 

 

Judy served Aussie Bites and coffee at our break.  Thank you Jennifer for volunteering your T-post tool!

 

 

Next Work PARTY is Thursday, May 7th

 

We changed it from May 1st due to Betsi trying to be in two places at once.  We hope to finish planting the cool weather veggies (peas, strawberries, beans, carrots, etc.), trim the three trellises, and put down chips around the two new water spigots.  Please come and contribute your special gardening talents!  As always, munchies will be served around 10:30am.

 

 

Our next Leadership Team meeting is set for May 19th from 1-3pm at Poulsbo City Hall Conference Room, 2^nd floor.  Join us!

Remember, your Leadership Team is here to serve the garden and our volunteers!
Betsi Kurzawski, betsikurz@yahoo.com
Judy Morgan, gjudym@gmail.com
Kim Kouns, kimkouns1@comcast.net
Cheryl Bosley, ecbosley@gmail.com
Nancy Sirman, nancyleesirman@yahoo.com
Jill Ray, jeray01@embarqmail.com
MJ Tyler, MJTyler2@gmail.com



First Post - April 13, 2014

We have a Raab Park Youth Garden Blog Page!

This is my (Betsi Kurzawski) first try at blogging.  I hope to get better at page format and options as I go.  Any ability I have to get to this point is because of Gerda Oostman, a leader at the Raab Park P-Patch.  Thank you Gerda!  Send ideas for improvement to Betsikurz@yahoo.com.

THANK YOU MASTER GARDENER ROOKIES!

It was amazing the difference between our overly wood-chipped and weed infested Youth Garden at 1:30am on April 11th and the raked out, weeded and newly wood-chipped edges of the Youth Garden at 2:30pm.  It was gorgeous!  As was the yummy lunch created by the Blueberry Park, Raab P-Patch, and Raab Youth Garden leadership teams and volunteers.  Having approximately 40 well nourished gardeners made the work easy and fun.  The sunny day helped too. Check yourselves out!

 

 

 

WEST SOUND MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS PITCH-IN ON EARTH DAY

About a dozen 7th and 8th Graders, lead by their teacher - Jennifer Silvernale -  will use their Earth Day afternoon to prepare and plant in the Youth Garden on April 22nd.  Planting bed #2 will have about 14 mounds of potatoes planted after some minor weeding and earth turning is completed.  Some of the potatoes will be harvested as fingerlings during one of the Children's Programs in the late summer.  The youngsters will enjoy the red, purple, blue, yellow and white potatoes that will be dug up.  The West Sound Students will be back again in the fall to help us clean up the garden before it goes to sleep for the winter.

NEXT RAAB PARK YOUTH GARDEN LEADERSHIP MEETING IS APRIL 21ST

It will be held at the Poulsbo City Hall 2nd Floor Meeting Room from 1 - 3.  We welcome anyone interested in contributing. 

NEXT RAAB PARK YOUTH GARDEN WORK PARTY IS APRIL 24TH

We will be concentrating on planting most of the garden boxes.  A Planting Plan will be available on this blog as soon as possible.  The PARTY will last from 9am - 12noon.  Come one, come all and earn your gardening hours while learning from some pros and having fun in the dirt!  Yes, there will be a "munchy break."

Remember, your Leadership Team is here to serve the garden and our volunteers!

Betsi Kurzawski, betsikurz@yahoo.com
Judy Morgan, gjudym@gmail.com
Kim Kouns, kimkouns1@comcast.net
Cheryl Bosley, ecbosley@gmail.com
Nancy Sirman, nancyleesirman@yahoo.com
Jill Ray, jeray01@embarqmail.com
MJ Tyler, MJTyler2@gmail.com

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