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Sometimes Close Doesn't Count

7/23/2015

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  Growing up, learning to play horseshoes, I learned the object was to toss your horseshoes closest to the stake. In horseshoes, close counts. Then sometime in my youth while watching war movies, I learned that close counts in hand grenades also. Later, during my Air Forces days while reviewing war plans in the vault with all the secret war plans, I learned the close really counts in thermonuclear warfare.
  But one place close doesn't count is the community garden compost pile. The refuse you take to the compost bin is either in the bin or it's not. If it is outside the bin, guess what, someone else has to pick up after you. We're all adults here so please do me a favor, put your refuse inside the confines of the compost bin. Not on the edge, not "it looks like it's in" but actually inside the confines of the bin.
  On a related note, next year when you want to get a wheelbarrow load of wonderful rich compost for your garden from our bin, the last thing you want is to find trash. It is a bit disheartening to find plastic plant tags littering the compost. So let's all work together to keep plastic of all kinds out of the compost pile.
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SHANNON GENTRY
7/30/2015 04:18:20 am

Agreed. However, when I tried to find a wheel barrel one morning someone's kid was playing with it. I was walking toward it, I was almost there, and boom there it goes. Did he use it? No. He wheeled around the gardens.

And then they are left all over the place near other plots two miles away, and I noticed that particularly some plots seem to always have "their" wheel barrels near "their" garden. They ought to be a place where we always restore them to; like the front of the garden, or where you the chiefs that be decide, not all over the place. And some are better than others and don't weight 25 pounds.

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SHANNON GENTRY
7/30/2015 04:25:44 am

Also, the plank boards on the ground leading to the garden refuge pile are thin and wobbly. Would it possible to get wider boards eventually so that one does not have wade in mud. In addition, in order to throw your refuge back further there should be a pitch fork that stays in the area at the back - that's the only way without having to climb into the pile to reach the back; otherwise, it's all just beginning to sit there in front of the area and it's hard to get it into a deeper area. Thanks, S.

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SHANNON GENTRY
7/31/2015 01:42:40 am

Okay well, I cleaned up my debris pile at the back of my plot, and three others that were dumped in front of other plots along the walkway near my row. I was really pleased to see this flat dirt trail leading up and into the refuge pile out back. So it was a lot easier to get up into the pile and dump it further back.

The grass this year is a problem, but perhaps due diligence and consistency is the answer. Just a part of organic gardening without roundup. No pesticides for sure. Thanks for the head's up Larry.

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