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Dear Festival Beach Garden Helpers:

Just a reminder to everyone that our monthly workday is this Saturday, July 10th from 9:00-noon.

Remember that work in community areas is part of each gardener’s contract to keep the garden running smoothly. Please come tomorrow morning to do your work hours, if possible, because we have organized leaders and made special extra equipment available to make the communal efforts go more smoothly.

If you cannot come tomorrow morning, you have until the end of July to complete your two hours of community work, and you can check the Work Hours Notebook in the green tool shed to find out what needs to be done and record your hours worked.

Below are the tasks we are going to try to accomplish tomorrow morning:

1. MULCHING: Moving of mulch and commercial compost to needed areas.
Mulch two smaller pecan trees.

2. CLEAN UP UNSIGHTLY AREAS: Clean up northeast corner of garden.
Detritus from points unknown. Move reusable parts and pieces to more
organized space. Gather buried hoses and determine if repairable. Move
and stack components for kiosk.

3. BUILD CENTRAL GARDEN PATH: Ongoing work on central garden path to
front main pedestrian gate and truck path.

4. COMPOST PILES: Move compost piles and move leaves from drainage
area near phase 3 to compost.

5. SIGN MAKING: Use pieces of plywood and paint to make some more
informational signs in the garden.

6. LAWN MOWING – We have 2 hand mowers and one riding mower and plenty
of lawn.

Please bring your own work gloves and if you have some sign-making
materials you would like to donate, please bring those as well.

John Brewington is leading the workday this week- if you need to
contact him before Saturday morning with questions, please email:
jbrewington@austin.rr.com

See you there!

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Hello Festival Beach Gardeners!

This is a notice to make sure everyone knows we are not having a gardener workday in May. We did discuss it in the Planning Meeting, but we decided we aren’t ready and will plan our first workday for June 12. The month of May can be a time for everyone to work on your own plots and get them going. We won’t start counting community work hours until June. Gardener workdays will take place on the second Saturday of every month. We’ll send a notice in a few weeks.

Happy gardening!

- Kathy

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