Tank love

This is the Tankmasta TA1403 12000 litre water tank that we are currently coveting for our gardens. Handsome devil isn't he?

If you would like to check out other tanks available go to the Enviro-friendly web-site here.

AGM

This was the agenda for the AGM today at 1.30.
We've had such good turn outs for the recent working bees it was a bit disappointing that more people didn't turn up. Still, it was quite productive and new members Liz and Jenny contributed some good positive energy. If you are interested in the minutes, they will be available to read in the meeting book in the shed.
On a brighter note- the gardens are looking lovely after all the recent rain and we can only hope it continues throughout Spring!

Annual General Meeting

We had another great turn out for our working bee on Sunday- well done all those who turned up and thanks for making all those yummy cakes for afternoon tea!

Our Annual General Meeting will be on Sunday 25th August at 1.30pm and it's important for as many people as possible to attend, so that we can effectively deal with all the issues affecting the gardens and elect our office bearers.

There is an Agenda on the blackboard at the gardens and please feel free to add any issues you may wish to discuss.

Also just a reminder that we have a selection of cards and tshirts available to buy on our Red Bubble site here, all the proceeds of which go to the gardens. Hopefully there will be a 2009 calendar as well which you will be able to order through Rebecca or Marijka for about $25.

We've had some decent rain lately and the gardens are looking lush and healthy, but we all know what's coming in Summer, and need to put some energy into procuring a water tank, so any help anyone can offer researching grants etc. to get one will be greatly appreciated.

Organic Gardener

Latest Organic Gardener is now in Library Bin. Sign in the book for two weeks or so. Happy reading.

Planting Day

Our wonderful new GM free zone sign and flowering native blue-bells.

We had a wonderful day yesterday and were amazed at how much we can accomplish when people turn up! Everyone deserves a pat on the back, but especially Marijka and Ros who organised it all beautifully.

We have planted out a large area beside the seat and along the railway line with a range of local indigenous plants, so now let's all cross our fingers for rain. Marijka and Chris have a plan to gradually produce a map of the area so that eventually we will be able to walk around the gardens and identify all the various plants.

It feels great to be part of a community effort like this, and hopefully we will all reap the benefits of it in years to come.

May Meeting

Another of Vince's clever devices- this is to train the broadbeans on...

Christine's Sapphire potatoes-

Chris's Brussel Sprouts!

We had a great turn-out for our meeting on Sunday, and managed to cover a fair bit of ground. Thanks to Christine and Alistair we now have a GM free zone sign on our fence, and are proudly supporting the movement to pressure Darebin Council to declare a GM free zone too.

We need everyone to search for new grants to get our water-tanks, as the one we'd planned to apply for has been cancelled.

Next Sunday 1st June is a working bee dedicated to planting out some more indigenous plants purchased with the grant from Darebin Council that Marijka got for us, so hopefully we'll have just as good a turn out for that!

Seed Saving Workshop

A great day as the pictures tell the story.

By putting up so many pictures Blogger decides what to do with them no matter how they are organized in the preview .
A random selection of the seeds that we discussed.
Plot holders can decide, as time goes by, to save the seeds from one plant. Then next Autumn at the Seed Saving workshop we can have a swap around. Marc has already taken up the idea of saving the seeds from one of his plants.

The pumpkin soup as usual was delicious thanks to Roz...

And a hearty welcome to three new members Christina, Alistair and Liz.