Welcome to the Blog

A review of what was in the email, so you don't have to flip back and forth once you've logged in...

Posting:
To post a new discussion, follow the link “new post” in the very top right corner. Enter your topic title, text and label(s) for the post. You will see sample labels to the right – “Flower Area, Food Bank, Irrigation, Things To Do”, etc. We should try to keep some common labels, which will make it easier to read only the topics that you are interested in. That way later you can click on “Irrigation”, for example, under Labels, and it will bring up all of the topics that have been labeled as such. If your post would be appropriately filed under an existing label, please use that one. You can also use multiple labels, if appropriate.

Alternatively, if coming here to post feels like too much, and you just want to post quickly from your email account, you can send an email to Eberggarden.newpost@blogger.com and it will be posted directly. This won’t post with a label, but I will go in from time to time and clean up the site to remedy this. This is a different option for posting to our blog.

You can also post pictures with your posts by clicking on the “add image” box there.

Posting Comments:
This is how Posts turn into Discussions. If you click on any given post, it will bring you to a page showing just the text for that post, and a link to “Post a Comment.” If you are interested in participating in a discussion, please post comments, instead of new posts, so that we can more easily follow the conversation (like an email thread). When you post a comment, you are given the option to receive emails whenever a comment is added to that particular discussion – just click the box before posting your comment and you will stay plugged in on that particular thread.

Calendar:
With the help of Ed, I have posted a Google calendar at the bottom of this page. If you scroll down below the posts, you will see it. It is currently empty, but should be a great tool for things happening. I will post information to the blog soon on how to add an event to the calendar.

One thing I forgot to mention earlier - comments, suggestions, requests, etc. are very welcome. I expect there are folks out there who know a lot more than I do about blogging and/or web miscellany, and also folks who have good ideas about what might make this a more useful tool. Please feel free to speak up - it takes a village, and all that jazz... cheers!

Flowers on the berm

July 5: If water is in fact available on the berm now, we could put half of the cosmos that are in the pot in Plot #37 up there, plus the sunflowers that have been waiting in pots on the greenhouse shelf. In a short time, the berm would bloom and everyone around would feel happy just seeing it.

(July 5): In Becky Chambers' Plot #37, there's a large pot full of cosmos. These need to be set into the flower area soon. The flower area is also becoming carpeted with a low-growing weed that's not hard to remove, yet. Once flowers are set in and the area weeded, heavy mulch might be the next thing on the list. Thanks!

Food bank -- what's done, and things still to do

(July 5): The main food bank area planting is nearing completion. If we remove weeds all the way to the pipe between FB area and personal plots, we can still sow another two rows of broccoli. We could also sow bunching onion seeds, carrots, and/or radishes behind cabbages in the tomato section, also around cucumber cages. When we use the mound of dirt just north of the potato bed to hill up the potatoes (should be soon), we can plant chard in that spot. There are still a few spots left unplanted in Becky Chambers' plot #37, but I hope to fill it up today, with sprouted seeds left over from the main food bank area. So far in Plot #37 (to be used, with Becky's permission, mainly for the food banks) I've put in sweet potatoes, tomatoes, okra, bush beans, beets, and cosmos. I plan today to put in the leftover squash and other sprouts from the main food bank area , and to sow some salad greens in the corners. Once the planting is finished, a final weeding should be done and heavy mulch with cardboard and or newspapers (at least 4 layers), covered with straw, should be laid down to avoid having to weed every week. Mulching the squash and sweet potato hill, though, may not be possible.

Irrigation Setup is Complete

The irrigation system is finally in done!

We still need to take water coverage readings and fine-tune the spray patterns, but the hard work is done, thanks mainly to Joan.