Earth Day 2010! Garden with the Greeks in SE Como's community gardens

Not only will there be the MIMO Earth Jam Ride happening in SE Como, but 90 volunteers from the fraternities and sororities within the University of Minnesota Greek system are decending on SE Como Community gardens for a neighborhood-wide community gardening opening day. All of our sites will benefit tremendously from the efforts of these volunteers. By the time the MIMO Ride gets underway, all participating community gardens will officially begun the 2010 community gardening season. Thanks goes out to the fraternities and sororities participants.

Other volunteers are certainly welcome to join in. Welcome Spring!

Earth Day Garden Volunteer Events

• Accord at 15th & como ave SE
  
• from 1-3pm
• Move big rock, Garden Clean-up, light raking , garbage pick-up,cutting down old stems

• Gateway Garden at 12th Ave SE & E Henn.
  
• 3pm-5pm
  
• move wood chips, light gardening

• Talmage Crossing at 21st Ave SE and Talmage Ave SE
  
• 2:30-4:30
  
• Move wood chip, digging weeds

• OWLS garden Clean-up, meet at 895 Weeks Ave SE (6 vols)
  
• 3-5pm
• pull up old plants, garden clean-up, seeding and watering

• Como Corner garden clean-up 22nd & Como Ave SE
  
• from 2-4pm
• trim dead stems, pull-up dead leaves, organize compost piles & etc

Early Community Gardening in SE Como

The activity in the SE Como neighborhood community gardens is revving up. At the Talmage Crossing Community Garden, gardeners report, "Just in time for the holiday weekend: the first tulip and first several daffodils have joined Lila's scillas and other bulbs, blooming on the boulevard. The median is starting to show buds so the bulbs there will be doing lovely things soon." Jake, SECIA's community garden intern, has sowed peas, lettuce and spinach in the demo GrowBoxes that the office is trialing. OWLS gardeners have picked out new seeds at the Community Garden Resource Fair offered by the MN Green program (of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society). Como Corner has just brokered a lease with BNSF, a new era for that location. And finally, despite spending the winter under sewer construction machinery, the Gateway Garden's plants are emerging!

How to catch-up with these growing folks? The SECIA Calendar lists all the pertinent community garden dates. Most SE Como gardens are kicking in on Earth Day April 22, 2010. Other news is that both the the Accord Native Plant Community garden and the OWLS Community Garden have both started Facebook pages.