Garden Club Meeting Summary
February 10, 1999The following is a summary of the topics discussed at our February 10th meeting. Please contact me at ext. 2014 or at mcdunn@slac.stanford.edu with questions or comments. Updates will be posted when available.
Update, 3/11/99
Mushroom compost will be delivered on Monday, March 15. The garden club will pick up the cost. Please share!
Housekeeping
The garden area is not an auxiliary dump! Please do not store items in the garden that are not intended for your garden. The camper shell is scheduled to be hauled away, as soon as the ground dries up a bit. The dumpster is intended for garden debris and weeds. Do not throw your junk down the hill between the upper and lower level of plots -- some folks are reclaiming these areas for planting.
Rich Torres will contact the appropriate folks to have the dumpster emptied.
Rebar/Stakes
Do no use rebar or similar metal stakes as plant/fence supports. Metal stakes need to be over 5 feet tall or they will be considered to be an impalement hazard. My husband and I spent most of a Saturday last fall pulling out all the rebar. We don't want to do it again!
Compost
The group decided to try to purchase another load of mushroom compost. Last year the cost was $317.30. If we can get it again at or near this price, it will be ordered and paid for from the dues fund. I will contact the vendor and see when the compost can be delivered. We want it before the rototilling, by mid-March if possible.
Rototilling
Gene Alvarado (ext. 2135, MS 91) offered to do the rototilling of plots again this year. Details will follow on how to mark your plot for tilling and when it will occur.You must pay Gene yourself. This will not be paid out of the garden fund.
Dues
- Plot dues must be paid no later than Monday, March 15, or you plot will be turned over to someone on the waiting list. No exceptions! Please send a check payable to "Bernie Lighthouse" to Ruth McDunn, MS 68, or off drop cash (exact change only) to my office in Building 40 (Central Lab), room R110.
- Plot codes and dues are listed by your name in the roster. If there are errors in the plot diagram or the roster, please let me know.
Use it or Lose it
Plots must be actively worked by Monday, May 17, or you will lose the plot -- even if you have paid your dues. We continue to have folks on the waiting list. I'll be walking the garden are on Monday, May 17, at noon and will contact the gardeners who will lose their plots. You are all welcome to join me for the walk-through. If there are funds available, the club may pay to have the unused plots cleared so they don't infest neighboring plots with weeds.
Miscellaneous
- Remember to lock the shed up when you are finished. If you need the combination, give me a call.
- Please report water problems, such as leaks or broken lines/fixtures, to me. I can't get things fixed if I don't know they are broken.
- The water shutoff valve for the entire garden area is located behind the PacBell phones (as in, in the weeds) behind the TCC trailers where the restrooms are located.
- I'll try to put up a sign that this is the SLAC Garden Club, with a hope of keeping out the poachers. Please keep an eye on the area - if there are folks harvesting and you don't know them, feel free to confront them.
- A request was made for a "round" hoe. Send any other tool requests to me and I'll keep them in mind.
mcdunn
04/12/03
