Ready, set, go!!!!

I can't believe it, but it is already garden season!  I thought about it all winter but at the same time it crept up on us and ... IT IS HERE!

For those of you who are joining the Community Garden for the first time, WELCOME!  We are lucky to have you!  We are a close-knit group that loves to garden TOGETHER!

Let me tell you a little bit about this blog and its purpose...

Tomato seeds germinated

Each year of our Community Garden, we like to track what we have done so that we can remember what works and what doesn't -- for example, what our favorite varieties are of veggies and when we started each of them by seed or by direct-sow.

In addition, we like to throw pictures on this blog so that you can see what is happening in all the different garden plots... this is where YOU can help!  We like to have pictures of EACH garden group and EACH garden member...if you could bring your camera (or cell phone camera) and snap a couple pictures when you are in the garden from time-to-time and then send them to me (susan_wheatley@comcast.net) as a jpeg file, I would love to share them on the blog.  Unfortunately, I don't make it to each and every garden assignment and therefore, I miss some of you :(  So, PLEASE send me your pictures and I'll share them with all!  We love all kinds -- funny pictures (my personal favorite), pictures of the garden plots, of the individual members, of the sunrises and the sunsets -- anything "garden-related" we love.  We also love pictures of the children working in the garden.  What a way to make a memory!

Each year, I have made a digital scrapbook of our community garden.  I am behind on last year's book but hope to get it put together in the next week or two.

This is just an introductory post...later this evening, I will post about our first garden assignment -- planting tomato and pepper seeds.  I forgot to take pictures of the garden members doing the planting (out of the habit) but did take pictures of the actual seed pellets and now that they have germinated, I have pictures of that as well!  Be watching for that post next!

Until then...