May 26, 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Our First Harvest and Preparing for Summer


As the school year is winding down, the kids are enjoying their opportunity to learn and contribute to the garden.  Here are a few pictures of Mrs. Bergen and Mrs. Persichetti's classes harvesting our first crop of radishes and putting in a few additional plants.  A big thank you goes out to Ohio State's Biological Sciences Greenhouse for donating the plants that the kids planted this week.


























Here's a look at how the rest of the garden is growing.  I sure wish my garden at home looked this good!












Throughout the summer, we're looking for families and teachers to volunteer to help us tend to the garden.  We'd like for each family and/or teacher to sign up for one week.  The duties will include watering, light weeding and turning the compost.  If we get enough volunteers, we'll pair two families together for each week.  It's a great way to spend some quality time with your kids while participating in a learning activity.

If you'd like to volunteer, please email me at tremontgrowingtogether@gmail.com.  If you have a date preference, please include that in your email too.  I'm working on putting a calendar on the blog so that everyone can keep track of the schedule.

Thanks to everyone who has helped so far and thanks in advance to those who are able to help out this summer.  The kids are really enjoying the garden and learning a lot at the same time!






Friday, May 7, 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Planting Day



Even though the forecast was rainy, Saturday, April 24th turned out to be a very productive and exciting day for our community garden.  Many dedicated volunteers turned out to help.  It's amazing what you can accomplish when everyone works together!  Here's a list of our finished projects:
  • Planted all 6 raised beds with a variety of vegetables.  We built trellises and tomato cages too!
  • Built a compost bin.
  • Planted shrubs and perennials and mulched at the kindergarten entrance.
  • Planted hostas and mulched the outdoor classroom.
  • Weeded all trees in the front of the school and laid mulch in as many as possible.
  • Planted hostas and myrtle around trees in front of the library.
  • Planted lilies along the front of the school.
  • Planted a Buckeye tree in the back of the school to replace one that had died.









A HUGE thank you goes out to all our volunteers.  I think we made a pretty good team!

Heidi, Hunter & Isabella Triplett
Eve, Mark, Marissa & Hunter Henson
Claire Whillans
Erin May
Kelly Bue & family
Lisa and Abby Vitali
Mike, Erin and Hannah Masters
John, Kelly, Camille & Lauren Olmstead
Taylor and Robert Buhrts
Carlin Morris
Mary Beth Smith & family
Sue Pfister
Cathy, Antonio, Alexandria and Amanda Ventresca
Steven Wink
Becky, Nathan & Lia Repucci
Rusty & Lauren Fumi
Jenny Anderson
Jan Davis
Amy & Ben Furash
Alex, Berit, Tayte & Toni Borstad
Eric, Anne, Trent & Ethan Sandstrom
Jeanne & Ellie Flowers
Katie & John MacEachern
Nicole Stephan
Wendy & Jack Nichols
Pam & Kevin Bergen
Michelle & Nick Persichetti
Allen Resch
The Helmer Family
Maryann Alford
Robyn, Andy, Drew, Sydney & Katie Harper


 





We also would like to thank the local businesses who donated food and beverages for our volunteers.  It was greatly appreciated!

Arlington Towing
Bruegger's Bagels
Carsonie's
Colin's Coffee
Huffman's Market






Monday, April 19, 2010

Thanks Caribou!



After testing, we discovered that the soil in our raised beds was slightly more alkaline than veggies like it to be.  Our gardening guru, Alex Borstad, suggested that we work coffee grounds into the soil to bring the pH level down a bit.  Ideally, we will be able to add a 5-gallon bucket of grounds to each bed before we plant this Saturday.  Now, I drink a fair amount of coffee, but to accumulate 30 gallons of grounds, we were going to need help!

Thankfully, the Caribou Coffee on Tremont Road at Kingsdale has come to the rescue by agreeing to collect their coffee grounds for us.  We're picking the grounds up daily and should have enough for our beds by Wednesday or Thursday.  So, next time you're looking to enjoy a coffee or tea, please think of Caribou.  Remember to thank their friendly staff for helping to make our garden a great success!

Monday, April 12, 2010

In the News

The Tremont Community Garden was featured in an article in the Upper Arlington News on Thursday, April 8.  Hope you enjoy it!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Building Day


The Day Begins

We had a great day today! Our fantastic crew of volunteers arrived at 9:00 a.m., ready to work!  I'll let the pictures tell the story.










Everyone worked so well together that we managed to construct and fill 4 beds by noon.  Everything looked so good that we thought....hmmm, maybe we should make 2 more!  There's plenty of space!

So, that's what we did!






Tremendous thanks are due to everyone who helped out today.  We couldn't have done it without you!

Julianne Alford
Jenny, Charlie & Henry Anderson
Pam & Kevin Bergen
Alex, Berit, Toni & Tayte Borstad
Mike Cahill
Carolyn Casper
Rusty & Lauren Fumi
Andy, Robyn, Drew, Sydney & Katie Harper
Michelle & Nick Persichetti
Catherine, Josh & Andrew Shapiro
Bonnie, Keith, Abby & Grace Wild

An extra special thanks goes to Jim Fronk for planning the layout and bed construction, ordering all of our materials and, in general, keeping us on track.