Spring Is Just Around the Corner. Put On Your Sun Screen and Come Dig-in with Us!
Yes - the new gardening season has started. The 2015 Master Gardening students began classes Friday, January 30th. We are already receiving emails from the Master Gardening Foundation regarding this year's Plant Sale. Rookie Day is planned for April 17th and the regulars at the Raab Park Gardens are serving lunch. If you have an easy soup, salad, or dessert recipe that you can share, bring it on over to the warming shelter at lunchtime. Please let me know what you are bringing so we don't have duplicates of each others culinary expertise (206-201-3285 or betsikurz@yahoo.com). I will confirm the exact time for lunch next month.
The Raab Park Youth Garden Leadership Planting Team (That is a mouthful!) met on January 19th to plan what to plant this year and where to plant it. Check out the Pages that show you the list of plants and/or the map of the garden beds. The meeting notes are on the January 2015 Meeting Notes page.
To plant the flowers and veggies, we will be having Work Parties on Thursday's this year, from 9 - 12. I've started a listing of all the Thursday's in the planting year on the 2015 Work Parties page. Please note that we are looking for volunteers to teach a 30-minute "class" on anything about gardening that you know or are interested enough to research. One of the difficult things to keep up after your first year as an MG is the requirement of 10 hours of education. If we even have one class a month at the garden, that will automatically give us 3-hours of education!
Our next Raab Park Youth Garden Leadership Team meeting is February 16th in front of the fireplace at the Safeway in Poulsbo. Please come and share your energy and ideas with us.
See you in the garden really soon!
Betsi Kurzawski
Volunteer Coordinator
