Group tasks

-Please help keep the front flower beds and back left herb beds weeded and watered. Feel free to add to compost, but please water it in if you do. If herbs are flowering, cut the flowerin portion off. This will enhance the longevity and vitality of the plant. The flowers are edible.

- Help each other battle bermuda grass in your plots. Teamwork makes heavy labor light and strengthens alliances between gardeners. If you need help building trellises, ask for it and offer to return the favor.

-We will update you on future projects or days where many hands are needed. Please make sure you are on the listserv and oberve our regular messages.

-Attend regular Sunday workdays and monthly meetings.

Inidividual member duties:

- keep your garden plot weed-free past the edges of your rows. Especially of bermuda grass. It becomes entrenched and spreads. Mulching immediately after weeding helps suppress future weeds.

- lay cardboard, then heavy mulch two feet out from your plot. Place the cardboard and mulch where your row meets the grass, not where it meets other rows.

- adding material to the compost: Large items should be chopped or broken into small pieces.

- harvest regularly. Regular harvest will increase your plants health and longevity. Over ripe fruit also attracts pest insects. Birds will remember a location where over ripe fruit stays too long and poke holes in your food.

- never use any non-organic fertilizer or presticide. This garden is a refuge to grow safe healthy food, don't ruin that. When in doubt, it's probably not organic.

- maintain invasive plants in a way that they do not negatively affect your neighbor-remove invading runners or roots, clip branches, relocate vines, etc.

- maintain plants infected with disease or infested with pests in a way that does not negatively affect your neighbor. Remove heavily affected plant materials, spray insects with soap/water solution, take preventative measures against infestation. It's sometimes good to let a small amount of pests be in the garden, as they attract predators that can help suppress pest population explosions.

Here is some of the fine company you are trying to attract:

This is bermuda grass, you must pull up the roots or it will continue to spread.