A Giving Garden: Group Gardening is Fun!

8:30 a.m. was a perfect starting time for our morning gardening chores. We had a good turnout--Patsy and Katherine were hard at work by the time I (Mary) arrived ten minutes later. I was quickly followed by Lyn, Betsy and Demetra, and Holly arrived and gave us some much needed gardening updates. Together, we dug weeds, watered plants, pulled up spent plants and generally tidied things up. Katherine and I looked for tomato hornworms since there was evidence that they'd been eating, but try as we might, we couldn't spot a single one. Someone else must have been in yesterday and found the culprit(s) and got rid of them.

We started talking about making a list of specific tasks we felt needed doing this summer, so stay tuned for this. Katherine suggested in a blog comment that maybe we could bring some big tongue depressors (craft sticks?) and mark things that needed doing. We are talking about tasks like cutting back some herbs, sowing seed for others, dividing irises, etc. There is always something that needs doing.

One thing that impressed all of us was how well kept the new garden shed is. Things are hung or put away so neatly. It's very easy to find things, so thanks Lyn and Holly!!

We are changing our summer care plan. Every Friday morning will be a time to come and garden if you are free. All of us will have weeks we can come and weeks we cannot. Vacations will interfere and real life has its clever way of making us take notice, but we feel that the garden will get sufficient care over the summer. It will be exciting to watch things like the cotton plant growing; seeing tomatoes turn ripe and red; gathering seed from other plants, etc. No shortage of good things and who knows, maybe that lovely hawk that hangs around might just bless us with a visit while we are working.