AUTUMN WINTER SPRING SUMMER

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1 NEWSTEAD COMMUNITY GARDEN - Suggested Plan and Dates for 2016 Garden Year Seasonal Tasks Summer - Pruning fruit trees Autumn - BD500 Spray/s, plant fruit and other trees Autumn or Soring - BD Compost Make Winter/Spring - Curly Leaf/Codling Moth Winter - Berry Pruning Working Bees Monthly? Work on each quadrant, including individual plots, inc all tasks needed in that quadrant - see diagram Garlic Growing - Fundraiser Autumn - preparation, planting (watering) Winter/spring - weeding, feeding (watering) Spring/Summer - weeding, feeding, mulching, net protection (watering) Summer - harvest, hang, prepare for sales Festival of Gardens - Fundraiser Preparation - Herbs, Plants and seedlings, Creatives - plant tags, soap, etc AUTUMN WINTER SPRING SUMMER

2 QUADRANT 2 LAYARD (Di, Sarah, Gabby, Carolyn, Joan) QUADRANT 1 PEPPER (Erica, Dawn, Julia) QUADRANT 3 SHED (Louise, Carmen, Sally) QUADRANT 4 CHURCH (George, Gen, Janet, Saide)

3 DATE EVENT TASKS Sat March 5 Sun March 6 (moon descending, waning, root day) Sun March 20 (is auspicious) April (2-4, 10-12, 29-30)/ May (1, 7-9, 26-29)- dep on soil, seasonal conditions Sat April 2 Summer Prune Fruit Trees March Working Bee - Quadrant 2 Plant fundraising garlic Prune our stone fruits, pears and Apples, water them, feed trees with compost/worm juice and scatter good bug mix underneath plant communal crop in greens bed (celeriac?, renovate communal rhubarb bed, help individual plotholders if needed, weeding, tree audit Plant garlic Sun April 10 Pizza Oven Session with Neil Tait, pm workshop on using pizza oven and eating from it - possibly invite neighbours, church, etc to eat and possibly run as a workshop for wider pizza oven owner/operators Sat April 30 April Working Bee - Quadrant 3 move/renovate communal strawberry bed (plant broadies?), help individual plotholders if needed, weeding, tree audit, tidy shed and igloo area, worm farm tending Sat May 7 May (1, 7-9, 26-28) dep on soil and sky moisture BD Spray flowforms stirring BD500 for an hour and then spray on whole garden and garlic Sat 28 May May Working Bee - Quadrant 4 move/renovate communal artichoke bed (plant green manure?), help individual plotholders if needed, weeding, tree audit, raised beds

4 Sat 4 June Sunday June 5 June Working Bee - Quadrant 1 plant communal strawberry bed, help individual plotholders if needed, weeding, tree audit, plant artichokes/remove raspberries, Sunday June 26 Garden Member Meeting Mid Year meeting of garden members to feedback on year to date and plan for spring and summer June (22-25, 29-30) July Late July/early August (dep on fruit tree budding, lunar calendar) Sat 6 August Sun August 28 August (25-27 dep on soil and sky moisture) Sat September 3 Friday 23 September (also equinox) or Sat 24? Sat 1 October Berry pruning and tree planting Go sit by the fire Curly leaf spray x 2 Working Bee - prep for compost build/festival of gardens or erect shade structures BD Spray BD Compost build Spray for curly leaf in stonefruit; make up burgundy/bordeaux mix from lime and sulphur tend communal crops, help individual plotholders if needed, weeding, gather compost ingredients, seed sowing and propagating flowforms for an hour and then spray garden and garlic Have gathered ingredients - greens, straw/mulch, manure, egg shells, wood fire ashes, kitchen scraps, weeds, rockdust,

5 Sun 23 October Working Bee - all garden in preparation for festival of gardens 29 October to 6 November Sat 5 November Festival Of Gardens Roster for gardeners to welcome visitors, take gate takings, serve refreshments, sell produce, plants and seeds, etc, provide info about the garden. Sunday 20 November Garden Member Meeting Feedback and debrief Festival of Gardens and Spring/Summer and plan for summer heat Fri 25 November Working Bee - fruit tree care Net fruit trees, thin fruit if needed, mulch trees and feed Sat 3 December Sun 4 December Xmas Gathering Celebrate the gardening year and the fruits of our efforts

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