Tales of Hoffman Coming Soon

Tales of Hoffman

Saturday, September 25th at 4pm

http://www.mixedprecipitation.org/shows/tales-of-hoffmann/

Mixed Precipitation presents Jacques Offenbach’s masterpiece Tales of Hoffmann, an operetta touring to twelve community garden spaces during the 2010 harvest season. Our irreverent treatment of this opera is perfect for opera lovers, gardeners, kids, and foodies, as artfully created locally sourced food samplings are prepared fresh and served to translate events of the story. The unique community event is becoming a neighborhood tradition.

The 1851 opera is based on the macabre stories of German writer ETA Hoffman, whose material inspired Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. In our version, Hoffmann is a globetrotting poet following his romantic whims across Europe and encountering fantastical adventures with robots, evil magicians and ghosts. Offenbach’s score contains many classic melodies of light opera, including the famous gondola melody, The Barcarolle. You can also expect some other musical surprises from the popular songbook. Our story is told in French, Spanish, English and the universal language of food!

Barrel of Giggles

These little girls were playing and so full of joy.

This image is quite possible one of my favorite experiences in the garden to date.

Tire for wheelbarrow

I checked out prices for tires for the wheel barrow at Welna 2. Solid tires do not require a tire pump. They are approx. $40. Inflatable tires are $27.
Doris

Hoop house in early summer

Squash Beetles

This came from Brian Noy today:

I've gotten two reports of squash beetles today. It's battle time.

I've heard one strategy is to bury the squash (this works for cucumber, zucchini, and melons) with soil so that it will sprout new roots at these intersection and prevent damage at one point in the vine to kill everything that is growing past there.

Here's some other stuff that I found online:http://www.life123.com/home-garden/gardening-tips/garden-pests/top-five-ways-to-control-squash-bugs.shtml

Anyone else have any other ideas?

Cuc's

My partner and I have never grown cucumbers before-- and quickly learned that trellising them would be a good way to save room in the garden.

I was nervous that the storm/severe weather would blow over the trellis this weekend, but was happy to find the cucumber plants healthy (and bountiful-- 4 cuc's to pick!) this morning :)

Wheelbarrow Tire

I went to get some of the compost for my garden today and discovered that the newer of the two wheelbarrows needs a new tire. Does anyone want to take on the project of getting a new tire?

Don't forget to get some compost. To directly quote Brian Noy, "We finally got a giant pile of compost delivered. Please help us use it by top dressing your gardens. Please work from the parking lot side of the pile, so we can get it reduced away from the lot. Seriously, add it to your gardens. Sprinkle it on under the plants 1 or 2 inches. We have to use this beastly pile up."