Saturday, May 31, 2008

May 27 & 28

Hello all,

Although this week was the last official gardening session for this semester (in lieu of the exam period), Amy will be taking over for the month of June, so everyone's still welcome to come around at the same times of Wed 10-12 and Thurs 2-4 to help out with the garden!

The garden is looking very healthy and is constantly in the process of being improved...!

The Bak-choys are almost ready for pickin'!

Just this week, Sally spearheaded the construction of a new herb bed right below Bed 1. Also, Edwina from the ANUGreen came around to film the garden for a promotional video on campus sustainability activities.

Permaculturalist Barbara Schreiner also paid the garden a visit and suggested a couple of interesting things to "sustainabilise" the garden even more--ie. using old twigs as stakes for the peas.

Just before you go through the pictures, 2 quick reminders:

1) The End-of-Semester BBQ/movie night is set for June 26, around 4pm! Come one, come all and join in the festivities. Details to follow soon!

2) the Great Green Debate, sponsored by the SLC, is also running on June 5 in Bruce Hall. Everyone's welcome to catch the panel discussion on the topic "The role of business in building sustainable futures" beginning 730pm in the Bruce Hall Dining Hall. Look to the SLC and Garden bulletins for details!

Some pictures from the garden this week....

Sal laying down newspapers for the new herb bed


Edwina filming Sal's gypsum sprinkling abilities

Sal putting in some water crystals for the plum tree

Jenn!

Sal teaching Lawrence proper mint transplanting


Trish staking snowpeas with twigs (the idea being while recycling these twigs, they provide the peas a random structure to cling to)

How cool is that?

Bigger, better, and greener (Amy and Trish weeding)!

Thanks to everyone who's been involved in truly making the organic garden into the big, fun, and healthy community project that it is.


1 comment:

cheesy-pops said...

Awww the garden looks SO good! Hopefully the Unilodge patch will loook the same. :) We just sowed our seeds about 1.5 weeks ago.

xx grace foo.