News and Events

  • Wed, Feb 1, 2012, Due date for renewal of plot applications for 2012 and service hour payment for 2011.

 

February 1 was the deadline for renewing plots and paying for 2011 un-worked service hours. Plots not paid for will be assigned to people on the waiting list. Presently there are about 10 people on the waiting list.

The General Garden Meeting will be held Thursday, April 26 at 7pm at the Thunder Mountain High School library. We will discuss the upcoming season at the garden, sign up for volunteer service hour projects, and distribute seed potatoes. A guest speaker will enlighten us on some aspect of local gardening. Each person attending will be credited with ½ hour of community service.

Garden Orientation will be some time in spring (date and time TBD). Orientation is required for all new gardeners and is highly recommended for all other gardeners. Topics covered include: introduction to tools, water system and amendments at the garden, how service hours work, and handouts of gardening tips.

The Spring Plant Sale will be on May 12 this year. This is an excellent opportunity to do volunteer service hours and to donate plant starts and cuttings to the sale, our second largest fund-raiser of the year. We will need help setting up before the sale, during the sale and cleaning up after the sale. Located at the Safeway parking lot, the sale begins at 9 am and ends at noon. This is also chance to shop at Juneau’s largest plant sale.

-- John Thedinga, Board President

 

Juneau Community Garden to test Composters

In order to recommend effective composters in Juneau’s cool wet climate, the Juneau Community Garden and Juneau Master Gardeners will be testing several types of composters this summer at the Juneau Community Garden. Equal volumes of mixed materials of optimum carbon: nitrogen content will be loaded into trial composters, mixed regularly and monitored for moisture and temperature. Methods will follow recommendations in University of Alaska Cooperative Extension and Master Composter publications. Periodically, materials in each composter will be examined for degree of decomposition and texture. In addition to the final compost produced, we will evaluate durability and ease of use.  

This trial will provide Juneau gardeners and composter vendors the best local information. Our results should also be useful to individuals seeking to reduce organic debris in municipal landfills in cool high rainfall areas.

The Community Garden is looking for composters to test and vendors that would be willing to donate or supply composters at cost.  Vendors participating in the trial will be publicized on the Community Garden website, in press releases, and at compost educational programs at the garden. 

Please contact:  Juneau Community Garden communitygarden998@gmail.com  for more information or to suggest a composter for testing. 

 


Invasive Plants Update

The Juneau Community Garden board members have met with an agent from UAF cooperative extension regarding invasive plants around the garden, namely Orange Hawkweed. Orange Hawkweed is extremely invasive and hard to kill. Methods of termination have been discussed such as pulling, tarping, torching and herbicide. Research is still in progress and action will be taken as soon as an appropriate method is determined.


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Juneau Community Garden
PO Box 033395
Juneau, AK 99803
Physical location: 5669 Montana Creek Road
Email:
communitygarden998@gmail.com