To-Do List

• Summer Crops are in!  By now most of us will have our warm season seedlings in and well on the way. Check for any pest activity and protect seedlings with covers or add Sluggo. The use of mulch this season is highly encouraged as we continue to experience drought and have to adhere to local water restrictions.
• We are an Organic Community Garden! Non-organic pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, or chemically treated wood products are not to be used in any part of the garden.
• Service Hours Please check your current Service Hours on the online log and update any hours that are outstanding. There is a Service Hour goal each month, please try and log your service regularly
• Consider signing up here to JOIN A GARDEN TEAM – we need your skills to build a better garden community, it’s a great way to get inspired to do your service hours.
• Last Thursdays have begun Summer Evening Workdays operate during the warm season months from May through to September. It’s a great way to log extra hours before the year ends on August 31. See the annual workdays schedule below
• Become an Open Garden Docent Our garden is now open to the public every Friday from 11 am – 1 pm. Contact Margherita or Fiona if you’d like to volunteer for this enjoyable Garden Team task!

Second Saturdays

Our next volunteer workday will be:

Saturday, June 11th

Community Garden Workday

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Leads: Apricot + Blackberry

Your family and friends are very welcome to join and participate.

Email to contact your Row Leader if you have questions about garden tasks, service hours fulfillment, or general maintenance issues due to illness or absence.

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Public volunteers are always welcome, please arrive before 10:30am and ask for the Garden Lead.

Groups of 10+ please register first with the Garden Coordinators: Register Here

What should I grow right now?

• Warm-season crops are crops that grow best when the days are long and hot (between 65*F and 95*F. These include crops with mature fruit such as tomatoes, cantaloupe, winter squash and watermelons or immature fruit such as corn, squash, and snap beans.
• Have a question about the right time to plant a particular vegetable? This is a great guide to planting and storing your edible crops:  
• https://ucanr.edu/sites/gardenweb/files/29040.pdf  

Service Hours Task List

Organize compost area Rake up materials, organize in piles of like-materials, cut small branches off large branches, weed the surrounding area and behind bins, coil hoses neatly

Rake leaves from pathways and move to the compost area. Pile neatly.

Weeding Greenhouse area: Remove any grass + weeds going to seed. Shake off soil and gravel first. Do not add weeds or grass to our compost pile.

Peace Garden weed brick pathways and wood chip perimeter / pathways around the herb garden. 

Flip compost bins check dates, flip bins with dates more than 3 days old

Welcome Garden weed along the front gate fence line, entry pathways and in the succulent garden

Weeding Remove grass + weeds in ANY community bed or area. Refer to our website weed ID list if you are unsure.

Empty Trash Bins into the blue skip bin in the parking lot. 

Pick up any trash do a sweep of the garden and pick up any trash and place in our bins