Good gardening and other news

I see from my mailbox that Tomas has submitted the the ScottsMiracle-Gro Grant. He writes,

The MiracleGrow  gardening grant application has been submitted. 

Phone numbers and e-mails are included in the grants for Kay Stillion as Executive Director of iCreate, 

Joan Embree as project director (of the community garden) 

and me, Tomas Wolff as garden coordinator are included.

We should hear by May 20th for a grant up to $1,500. 

That's a lot of drip hoses, wheel barrows and perhaps some shade cloth, and other necessities. 

Lets keep our fingers crossed.

PS. We should start planting some spring vegetables. 

Joan is returning from California soon, so we should plan a garden meeting, 

say Saturday, April 9th at 10 am AM? or the week following?

In other news, not about the Community Garden or gardening but about the other side of iCreate, the call for submissions for the memorial poetry anthology project is, pending just a bit more feedback, ready to roll on schedule, April 1st, the first day of National Poetry Month. More, much more on that and the month itself in separate posts... a month of poetics-appropriate festivities, rollicking versification and general merry-making planned at both Poets and Writers Picnic locations, in the blogosphere and on Facebook, (none IRL or, as far as I know, recognized by the MMAC poetry/writing subcommittee).

We interrupt this short update on and commercial for poetry to return to our gardening news....

Grow Your Own – Time To Start Digging! Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:14 AM PDT by John Weckerle Well, it's past time to start digging, at least for some of us, and digging we have done – largely sponge pits for new and existing trees and shrubs, but we've also taken some time to start prepping the beds for this year's crop.  With luck and time, we'll be adding new beds this year, and maybe even experimenting with some new varieties and soil mixtures. As we approach the season, we thought we'd share a few resources that might be useful to our readers in getting (and keeping) the ball rolling  (go to John's "Grow Your Own" post for the rest ~ a hint, more good Extension resources; while there check out other articles in the gardening category and admire the pictures) Happy tilling!