Seriously, the Seed Fair for EHCG is tomorrow!
All plots assigned for both EH and UH community gardeners will receive 15 tickets (15 tickets per plot, not gardener). You can redeem these for everything from arugula to zucchini, and they are totally free! Residents and students, show up bright and early at the Eagle Heights Community Center at 9 AM - or even earlier if you want a good place in line. All other registered EHCG gardeners enter at 10 AM. At 10:30 AM there will be a workshop covering planting basics. A big thanks in advance to all of our volunteers completing their work day by lending a hand tomorrow morning.
The final orientation tour will also be tomorrow, at noon. Yours truly will be leading one of the tours at Eagle Heights, in addition to one other EH tour guide and parallel tours at UH.
Time to get serious and get planning! If you haven't yet, check out my sample month-to-month plan, and do some investigating into when to put seeds (or plants) in the ground. I recommend using the search bar for the planting guidance page - it's quite long and you may only be interested in a handful of the entries. Although by all means, if you have the time I appreciate you reading it all the way through!
Our garden worker Will has also recommended the site Smartgardener.com, which I am told is slick and has all crazy kinds of features. Check it out!
One final note - we are recruiting a new co-chair to replace Josh Parsons, who after his many years in the gardens has finished his PhD and is moving on to a new job. If you are interested in this volunteer position, please email me (mirrielees@wisc.edu) or the registrar (ehgardens@rso.wisc.edu) so we can discuss more.
I will update this post after the Seed Fair with news and photos.
Happy planning, seed fair-ing, and gardening!
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Quick edit - photo from last week's orientation at EH:
Will Waller took this picture for us right at the entrance of EHCG.
Thankfully it will be warmer this weekend! I'm sure we're all looking forward to saying good-bye to the ice and hello to sunshine!
(Disclaimer - we have no financial or other affiliation with smartgardener, just an interesting online tool with no commercial endorsement from us.)
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