Emmett Community Garden Jobs and Timeframes

 

April  Till the garden and get ready for planting.  Need people to run the tillers and to rake out the high and low spots.

 

April – June Plant rows in the garden.  Need people to make furrows, plant seeds and cover over.  Then the dripline must be laid out on top of the planted row and staked in place.  Check for breaks in dripline and mend as necessary.

 

April- June Once rows are planted and they emerge from the ground we begin to weed.  Need people to run the tiller and hoe rows that are to narrow for the tiller.  Hand weed down the row picking out weeds from good plants.

 

June – September Continue weeding as time permits.  Mostly by hand as the plants are too large to get the tiller between rows.

 

June- October Harvest the ripe produce.  Picking is done twice per week on Tuesday morning and then again on Saturday morning.  This is just going down each row picking the ripe vegetable and packing them into the food bank for repackaging or storage.  We pick especially on Tuesday as the foodbank is open that afternoon so people get fresh produce.

 

September – November Begin to take down the garden.  This is mostly pulling plants and removing them from the garden unless they are small plants that the tiller can chop up.  We will also cover the entire garden with compost so it can be tilled in for the winter.  As we take the rows apart we also roll up the dripline and store it for the winter.

 

Hopefully by mid November we have the garden put to bed until spring and then we do it again.

 

Groups can get coached on the job and do most of it but picking on their timeframes to meet the groups needs.  You don’t have to come every week but it is best if we kind of have an idea of who will be in the garden each week so special jobs can be assigned if needed.  You can work an hour or all day.  You pick the amount you want to work and contribute.