We were lucky with the weather for our 5th work party of the season - with our home made potluck goodies plus the generous contribution of our local Capers. Although it looked like a lot of food - amazingly it was all gone by the end of the party! Homemade highlights included a scrummy noodle salad, decadent chocolates, an elegant mango mousse... and more. Capers provided tons of lovely sandwiches, a loaded fruit plate, veggie plate with dip, potato chips and drinks. I am writing this at dinner time so I guess I better focus less on the food (I'm hungry!) and more on how much work we got done that was on our chore list!
Not in any particular order, we...
...reorganized the tool shed (nice and neat now!)...weeded all the common areas including the front boulevard, west boulevard, hobbit tree, salad and kiwi garden and in front of the tool shed...cleared up the front boulevard of overgrown plants and revealed
our beautiful path... put up some more bird houses on the hobbit tree...
... pruned our suffering fruit trees (need more sun!)... clipped and defined our common
garden edges (looks so good!)... beautified the terracotta garden at the back... ah... the compost... emptied out the black bins and reloaded and layered into the main composters... a special plea lovely gardeners - can everyone try harder at cutting up the green into small pieces before depositing into the compost bins? Of course compost duties included filtering and providing a lovely big bin of finished compost for everyone's garden (the one to the very left). If I have forgotten anything - let me know!
Thanks to the members who showed up for the party including little Lola, Charlie and B!
See you next time at our Wednesday, August 24th Work Party - 7pm to 9pm.
If you have a garden and a library you have everything that you need. ~ Cicero
