Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Brrrr, lately it has been hard to remember that it is Spring Plant Sale Time, but the Wahkiakum Community Garden volunteers have been working diligently to prepare for the 2022 growing season. We are planning for our Annual Plant Sale in May. We rely on community support for the success of our only fundraiser. The Community Garden has 17 raised beds in which we grow vegetable produce we donate to Wahkiakum County area food banks during our harvest season. Most years we have donated around 1,500 pounds of produce. Funds we raise are used for...
April is a busy month at the Community Garden. We have been pulling the overwintered weeds, cleaning pathways, rototilling the plots, filling raised beds with new soil, liming the plots, and generally sprucing up the whole garden. The raspberry plants have been pruned and tied up to their wires, weeding them is still in the process. The blueberries were weeded and fertilized thanks to the volunteers who come help out. The water is turned on so we can clean our tools and water new starts in the hoop house. Planting the early crops has begun...
The Wahkiakum Community Garden is revving up for a new Garden Season so get your plot request in! To paraphrase an old Burma Shave sign: “SPRING has SPRUNG THE WEEDS ARE RIZ WHERE LAST YEAR'S GARDEN IZ” The gardening catalogs have been received for rainy day reading and it's time for the Wahkiakum Community gardeners to plan for the new gardening season. There are a few vacant plots available for anyone who wants to do their own veggie gardening. Anyone who does want a garden plot needs to let either Joyce (360) 430-3968 or Winnie (36...
The next book club gathering will be held Friday, February 12 at 11 a.m. in the Wahkiakum Community Senior Center, 101 Main Street in Cathlamet. We each bring a brown bag lunch. This month’s book is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Amazon.com books lists a number of inexpensive copies available and they can be shipped quickly. Used book stores will probably have copies also as the book is not a new release. The Cathlamet Library has at least one copy and also has the DVD which follows the book quite closely and would be a fun way to get i...
The gardening season is now over. Our local Community Garden is into clean-up mode, and we are putting the garden to bed for the winter. The garden gang thanks all the gardeners, volunteers, and contributors for their help and support. This year the garden donated 1,540 pounds of fresh, seasonal vegetables and herbs to our local food banks. This included cabbage, carrots, kale, broccoli, beets, lettuces, cucumbers, summer squash, winter squash, green beans, tomatoes, Swiss chard, Walla Walla onions, parsley, oregano, chives, and possibly...
The Community Garden is waking from its winter slumber with a work party on April 18th, Saturday from 9 a.m. to whenever we are worn out. Already some onions (yummy Walla Walla) have been planted in the section grown for the donation to local food banks to distribute. The raspberries have been pruned and fertilized along with our donated blueberry plants. Weeding and rototilling will be done on work day to prepare for more planting in the Food Bank section and for individual plots, too. Several individuals have already begun to clean up their p...
Seven to 10 hardy gardeners regularly brave the cold Wednesday mornings to work on putting the Community Garden in Erickson Park on Columbia Street in Cathlamet to bed for the winter. These workers, some who garden a plot of their own and some who just want to volunteer, have weeded, rototilled, carted garden waste to compost piles, refreshed pathways with shredded cedar shavings, and much more. The final wheelbarrow load of straw and manure mulch for the season was emptied onto the garden December 12. The community garden has been put to bed,...
Hmmm. Can’t remember when you transplanted those tomatoes outside or how early you planted those yummy peas? If only you had kept a garden journal you would have all that information at hand. Several garden journals are available in bookstores. In them you write the important gardening details you want to remember. You can buy a journal or record information on a handy wall calendar to refer to each year. My journal is for three years. How interesting it is to compare the results of the different techniques I used from year to year. One year I...
