Co-President’s Message – May 2025

     Are all gardeners as crazed as I am in May? There are the perennials I wintered over that didn’t get planted last season and are still begging fora home. The unopened seed packets instructing me to sow two weeks before the last frost. The seedlings I left out in a hale storm…thank youColorado! Then it happens. My first iris bloom stops me in my tracks. Icarry a bowl out to get lettuce from the garden. The tomato seedlings miraculously survive and will make it to the OUR Garden. And just like that, I am hooked for another season.The one thing I have done is potted up plants for the Hoe and Hope PlantExchange taking place on May 28th at Thompson Park. If you are new to the club this is a fun meeting where members bring plants or other garden items such as pots or garden tools to exchange with each other. Don’t forget to label your plants and bring a chair. And thank you to the many volunteers helping Robin Ecklund and Karen Janata set up at the park.

     In other club news, the civic projects got off to a strong start in May.Dudley received a donation of 50 bags of ECO raised bed mix and 50 bags of compost for the OUR Garden. The lettuce, spinach, beets are growing and the tomato seedlings are going in the week of May 19th. We are out at the Rogers Grove Pollinator Garden and the Roosevelt Rose Garden every week. Come out and see the results!

     Last…take a deep breath. The rose that doesn’t get pruned in time will still bloom and the weed not pulled will wait for you.

See you at the Plant Exchange!

Mary