First Meeting, January 29, 2009

I received this email from Melanie Jones at the Boy's and Girl's Club this morning. Looks like the gardeners are off to a good start!

Sara Harris held the first official meeting of our Harvest Project on Thursday 1/29. Our gardeners this year will be our 5th grade members -- an intelliegent and curious group of kids! The project will also be open to members who have a love for gardening and an interest in learning more about nutrition, growing, and harvesting. Sara gave each gardener a journal for planning the garden's design and choosing their favorite fruits and vegetables to grow. She also showed the group a sample of produce that they could grow to help them plan their crops. Here are a few photographs from yesterday's meeting.

I will start seed this weekend for lettuce and cabbage and the seedlings should be ready to transplant by March 15. Looks like a couple of blueberry bushes might also be wanted in the garden. Now is a good time to plant and the garden stores have a good supply. For proper pollination, we will need to plant 2 bushes. We can also plan to plant strawberries by mid-spring.