Tilling Day

The rain is delaying us again. Tilling has been postponed for one week. The long range forecast looks great! http://www.wunderground.com/US/OR/Milwaukie.html

I have reserved a Toro Dingo for Friday (5/11) afternoon through early afternoon on Saturday (5/12); that should be enough time to get all of the beds tilled; but, just in case there isn't time to get to them all, we will till the beds already rented first. If you want to rent a plot, fill out the form on the tab at the top of this page!

We will be working from 3:30 to 7pm on Friday May 11th, and 9am to 2pm on Saturday May 12th. It would be great to have groups of 3 or 4 volunteers working in 2 to 3 hour shifts over the weekend. I will have our first load of compost delivered on Friday to spread over the weekend. Please RSVP so I will know how many people I have for each shift.  I need someone with a vehicle that can tow the Dingo to volunteer to pick up and/or return it with me at Johnson Creek Rentals.

Since we won't be able to till tomorrow (5/5) we can attend the soil health class at Saint Paul church (10am to Noon) and the Clackamas County Master Gardeners Plant sale in Canby!

April showers bring May flowers. May downpours make for an impatient CCG director!

~Sarah

Water!

On Saturday, Landscape East and West installed our waterlines and hose bibs. They generously donated the double check, timer, pipe, hose bibs, etc. and their employees volunteered their time and cut no corners to professionally install our water lines and eight hose bibs. Thanks to them, CCG now has a water system built to last for many years.

Making Progress

Thanks to Timberline Development, we have water at Campbell Community Garden! Our water meter is all ready for Landscape East & West's volunteers to hook our hose bibs up to! Soon we will be watering tomatoes!

Soil Health & Social

Milwaukie Community Gardens has invited Campbell Community Gardeners to:

Soil Health  & Social

Saturday, May 5th, 10:00-12:00

St. Paul's United Methodist Church
11631 Linwood Ave.

Please join us as we kickoff the gardening season!!

Heather, from Concentrates, will give a talk on building healthy soil.
Refreshments and a chance to meet your garden managers and fellow gardeners will follow.

We have a work day scheduled for this day from 10 to 1:00, however if we are rained out, or if any of our gardeners can't help us with tilling etc. I encourage you to attend.

Soil Health & Social sponsored by Milwuakie Community Gardens

Garden Kick-Off Meeting

It appears that we have crossed all of our permitting hurdles, now we are just waiting for weather dry enough to till and the installation of the water meter before we can start really building. We have over half of our plots reserved; if you want plot, act now.
On Saturday April 21^st at 10am we will have a Kick-off meeting with introductions, and a Question and Answer session at the garden site. I will share my tips for planning the start of your new garden. IF the weather has cooperated and the site has been tilled, we will have a mini work day after the kick-off, to measure and mark the paths and water lines. The kick-off will happen rain or shine. If you have any neighbors who would be interested in a plot, invite them to the kick-off! If you drive to the garden Kick-off, please be courteous about parking in front of neighbor homes, don't block driveways in the cul-de-sac.

Here is our "before" picture!

 I'm looking forward to taking some "after" pictures and harvesting veggies with my neighbors!

~Sarah

Calling all helping hands!

Green thumbs not required!

The Hector Campbell Neighborhood is ready to break ground on Milwaukie’s newest community garden at the NE corner of the grounds of Campbell Elementary School (off of Adams Street). The garden will have 28 plots for neighbors to rent and four plots for growing produce to share.

Garden Work Days will be held most Saturdays in April (depending on dry weather!) Check back on this website to confirm dates. If the soil is too wet, we won't be able to work.

NOTE: the list below has been edited (4/4/12), the wet weather has put us off schedule; we will post dates once we have an idea of when the big tiller can get it to do the first tilling. If the weather allows, we will have work days Saturday 4/14 & 4/21, plus a weekday afternoon or two.

• First tilling & grading: TBA (this will be done for us by the parks district, no volunteers needed)
• Survey/measure water and fence lines, mark out plots and paths: TBA
• Install water lines and hose bibs: April 28th (this will be done by Landscape East and West; we will need a few volunteers to help back fill trenches)
• Wood chip paths and edge with lumber: TBA
• Till compost into planting beds: TBA

Please RSVP to Sarah Smith, 503-653-0015 so we will know how many people we will have helping.

Campbell Neighbors: Register for your garden plot NOW!

Registration for garden plots at the soon to be built Campbell Community Garden is open! Plots will be assigned to gardeners living in the Hector Campbell Neighborhood first, gardeners from other neighborhoods will be put on a waiting list; if open plots remain after April 15th 2012, they will be assigned to the waiting list. If you have questions, you may contact Sarah Smith: 503-653-0015

Link to: CCG Registration form