Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Waiting for RJ

I am eagerly awaiting the response of our newest invitee, RJ. However, since she is in the Dominican Republic, I expect that it will be a few days. in other news, we all have admin capabilities, so if you get a hankering to mess around with this here blog, mess away.

I would like to attend both nerdy garden events.

Here's your chance to meet Mr. Food!

If anyone wants to *really* geek out, planbreaker and I are thinking of attending the Home and Garden show on Sunday at Assembly Hall to see what that's all about. Anyone wanna join us?

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Kick-Off the 2006 Gardening Season in Style!

Hey gardeners, welcome back to our much-neglected blog! A special welcome goes out to our new gardening partner, Renee (By the way, who is the blog administrator? I think we need to add her to the blog).

Two bits of gardening news. First, Prairie Gardens is having some kind of "Gardening Kick-Off" extravaganza on Saturday, April 1. As part of the celebration, they're holding seminars in the morning with local garden experts on a variety of topics. There are two that I thought might be helpful for us. At 10 a.m. there's a seminar on "Organic Gardening," which promises useful tips on enriching the soil, pest control, and crop pairings. Also, at 11 a.m., there's a seminar on "Pest Control," which has a special emphasis on those damned Japanese Beetles.

I think I'm going to go to both seminars. Is anyone else interested? As an added bonus, they'll have coffee and donuts!! The seminars are free, but they ask that you sign up (there's a book at the information counter). I optimistically signed up myself + 1. I thought it might be a nice way to kick off our own garden season. We could get brunch afterwards & discuss the garden, perhaps?

Second point of business: If you or anyone you know drinks milk in plastic containers, please start saving them. We can use them to protect our baby plants from the destructive prairie winds. Remember last year how we didn't do that? And remember how well that worked?

Is anyone else getting garden fever yet?