Dabney Garden Blog

I met with Delmy Emerson, the directory of facilities management, today, to  talk a bit about the garden and integrating it into the campus. We’re going  to put up edging of some sort once we have the entire area for this season  tilled. Irrigation will continue to be soaker hoses for this season, but they  may put in drip irrigation in the future for efficiency and ease. They will  also (weeks or months) put in spigot(s) in the back to make it easier and  less leeky to water.

Planted garlic, kale, leeks, and scallions today. Hope to put the pumpkins  in tomorrow

The garden mailing list is now archived publically,  http://hermes.ugcs.caltech.edu/pipermail/dabney-garden/

Happy Wednesday,
Alex

Thanks to many people’s help, we have finished two beds. The first contains tomatoes (of many varieties), butternut squash, and cayenne peppers. All but the peppers had already sprouted, I just put the peppers in today.

The second, by the wall of the Hovse, contains Kentucky Wonder pole beans and dwarf grey sweet peas (a combination of seeds and seedlings), and two types of lettuce (seedling)

Right by where I have planted either seeds or a plant small enough that it could be missed, I have put a single wooden marker in the ground. There are also two sticks (sometimes tied together) on the soaker hose, those have no meaning, just there to keep it in place.

Depending on how sore I am I will be working again either tomorrow or Tuesday. Poke me if you’re interested in helping. In particular I can use the help of strong people for taking up sod and tilling the land.

Tom has mentioned that he might be able to get some rototilling for us, which would be great, so hopefully he’ll lettuce know if this ends up happening.

Alex