cape cod organic gardeners

CAPE COD ORGANIC GARDENERS SUMMER 2008 NEWSLETTER

THANKS
Thank you very much to: Jack Stacy, Christl and Al Barbour, Gretel Norgeot, Angela and Dan Igo, and Lois Fournier for showing their gardens. Also a big thanks to Peter and Cindy Olotka for doing the newsletter.(Thanks for the thanks, Jean!)

 TAKE DIGITAL PHOTOS OF SUMMER TOURS
Take digital photos of the tours this summer and we can post them up here at CCOG  

 BIRDS ATTACK EDITOR’S TOMATOES

Scarecrow makes birds laugh making them hungrier.....next step netting!

CCOG NEWSLETTER ONLINE

Save a tree! To get the newsletter online via email instead of paper mail, email polotka@gmail.com with your email address. See the photos in color You can add comments, suggestions and links at the CCOG website. To read the CCOC newsletter on the web go to http://ccog.wordpress.com/ 

GREEN TIP

To have fresh strawberries all summer try a row of ever bearing berries!

NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to new members Sue Rohrbach and Pam Therrien.

CALENDAR

AUGUST
August  3 Sunday at 3 PM: Garden Tour Kevin and Nancy Mennegerode  149 School St., Marstons Mills Take Old Mill Rd, off Race Lane to School St. Expanded garden since last year, plus chickens and a beehive.

To Mennegerodes

August 17 Sunday at 3 PM: Garden Tour Frank and Judy Ciccone 23 Ridgewood Dr. East Sandwich 508-888-4607. Take exit 3, Quaker Meeting House Rd., If you are coming from Hyannis,
Dennis, etc., go left off the ramp.  Go about 1 1/2 miles – on the left take
Kiah’s Way.  Then take your first left, Mill Rd., then take your third left,
Ridgewood Drive.  We are the first house on the right, gray, #23.  If you
get lost – 508-888-4667.
. See expanded garden and many flourishing veggies.

August 8 – 10: The 34th Annual NOFA Summer Conference
at University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 
(Note the location change).

SEPTEMBER
September 7 Sunday 1:30 PM:  Pot Luck Picnic at the Kelly Farm Rt 6A 66  Marstons Ln. Cummaquid. 508 362 8136. Please bring your own place settings and a pot luck dish. Rain Date September 28 Sunday 1:30 PM

 Call 508 362 8136 to car pool.

Olotka’s July Garden