We have an exciting, informative "walk and talk" meeting planed for our Plain Dirt Gardeners on Tuesday, June 15. Mayor Schielke will host a walk around the Wild Flower Sanctuary and tell us about the history of the area.
Please meet at 6:30 just outside the council chambers entrance to City Hall. We are hoping for a beautiful evening.
Unfortunately we have weeds and shrubs encroaching on the Riverwalk on the east (wooded) side of the WFS, so we are going to have an extra bonus clean-up day starting at 8:00 am on Monday, June 14 as well as the previously scheduled one on Friday, June 18. Luckily we will be in the shade! Please bring water, eye protection, weed diggers, clippers, loppers and something to tote the weeds in.
If you would like to help out on your own, we really need to have Crown vetch (Securigera varia) removed from the little prairie, where it is taking over. See photo below. The second picture is a quiz. See if you can find those yellow flowers at the WFS. If you do, their species will be obvious. Hint: they are at eye level.
Hope to see you next week!
Sarah Kimber
Bad News: Our Blogsite is dropping the automated email system we have been using. We cannot get into it to get your email addresses and move them to the new provider.
Good News: You can now go to our blogsite and join our NEW system. When you go the the blogsite you will be prompted to enter your name, email and birth month and day (but not year!). Enter the information and you will be in our new system. If you do not want us to know your birthday, just enter any old date as we are not collecting this information (it is just included with MailChimp, our new provider).
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Just in Case: Troubles dealing with this: contact us by email and we will add you ourselves. Email us at BataviaPlainDirtGardeners@gmail.com
We need someone to coordinate the 2022 Garden Walk. We have a committee of experienced people who helped with the last gardens walk and are willing to help with all the activities. We ready have gardens identified to visit this summer. We need someone to coordinate the committee and connect with the gardeners on the walk.
If you are interested, or even if you just want to learn more and decide not to do it, please call me and let’s talk. This is a fun fund raiser for the club that brings people together and provides gardening joy to those in our community.
We have simplified the activities of the day of the garden walk, have local ticket sites, and have even automated the ticket sales to make this a fun event. If you like people and like bringing people together, it is easy to be successful with this project.
We have an exciting, informative "walk and talk" meeting planed for our Plain Dirt Gardeners on Tuesday, June 15. Mayor Schielke will host a walk around the Wild Flower Sanctuary and tell us about the history of the area.
Please meet at 6:30 just outside the council chambers entrance to City Hall. We are hoping for a beautiful evening.
Please bring weed diggers, WATER, gloves, eye protection, clippers and a bucket or something to haul weeds.
Hope to see you then!
