Uber-Party Pictures

Hello Gardeners!


Many of you attended the Uber-Work-Party on Saturday March 25, and so much got done. Many of you may have also seen me wander around taking pictures of everybody working. Can you believe I got work credit for watching other people work?! Heh, well, it only took a few minutes to snap some shots, and some editing time later, I have for you the visual catalog of everyone's efforts, plus a few gardens that look good.
Who's ready to see some pictures?
WARNING: The following images have graphical depictions of humans doing real and productive work while having a whole lot of fun at the same time. May not be suitable for all ages.



The potluck breakfast food had been well eaten by mid-day. The apples and pancakes seen here were snack-fare for many.

Off in the distance, three parachutes were gliding. (Two shown)











Look at all the debris cleared from the Southwestern quadrant of the gardens. Where will it all go?

Two gardeners got the idea - take the branches to the front for more wood chips!


















But before paths can be wood-chipped, first they must be leveled out so wheelbarrels and trucks can have a smooth ride over them. Here some volunteers are scraping the path flat.

To the right, posts await being sunken into the ground. Here you can see one of the little ones that have come to help out.

















Meanwhile, The Apostle Gabriel is nestled under some Prunus trees in flower, overlooking some of the first flowering shrubs and a prolific artichoke. He mixed up some entertaining work music for everyone. It got me thinking, can we have music blasted across the garden every weekend? Anyone have any huge capeable boomboxes to recess into the walls of the tool shed? Heh.

And now, a close-up of the apostle.















Way out on the other side of the garden in the Northwest quadrant, some workers are clearing away the brush and undergrowth.

Here are a couple more.



















Turning around, this gives you an idea of where these folks are clearing stuff out - and a nice look at the gnarly grape vines before they bud forth with foliage. That speck in the distance is the tool shed and civilization as-we-know-it.
Speaking of which, here's a nice shot of the pink almond tree in full bloom over the shed. Beneath, signs are being prepared illustrating the up-and-coming community space.


















It is always locked. Have you ever wondered what goes on in the back portion of the tool shed? Once shrouded in mystery, this reporter has gone in depth to reveal a host of tools that you would dream to get your hands on. Nice saws, machinery for tilling soil and shredding compost, paint, oil, Human Cadavers (in the shadowy spot), and marking tools.

Back in front again, the camera is treated to a shower of flower petals from the almond tree.















Carbon, carbon, everywhere, and not a pile of compost to stick it.
Nevermind, there's some! Mmm, black gold.















Many volunteers took off before this picture was taken, but here is everyone again. Note the difference between the first picture and this one: Everyone is grinning! What are we to conclude but that a day of garden work is good for the facial muscles? Ok, it was taken seconds after the first one, but the camera was flipped upside down, which everyone thought was so funny. Photoshop, however, didn't think it was all that special and let me flip it back again. Viola!

This could be you at the next work party. Huzzah!

I'm not quite done yet. It is time to wander back through the gardens and pick out some nicely maintained plots. Here's a cute small plot that has been carefully cleared and planted.


On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have that great big fenced plot growing herbs. Those can't all be for one person. I could never drink that much peppermint tea! (foreground) Always well groomed.















Of course, in front of the tool shed we have those soft berms of meticulously planted crops. Ok, you have way too much time on your hands. Some say that the planting of this plot was guided by a GPS uplink, and that at all times, whether planting or harvesting, there is always a prime number of plants.
Ok, no one says that. But it makes you wonder...

Here we have the garden with the broken tiles and the glass orb.
















But you may more easily recognize this gardener's artistic merits by the cute wire mesh cones protecting the plants. The acheing question now is, how can one make use of this practical design without looking like one is copying? Note the S-curve path.

And finally, shameless self-promotion. Here are my neat little rows of garlic, onions, and the chard-row of Supreme Jealousy. Inverted bottles mark the rows.



Thank you everyone for perusing these images of the garden. Take a walk around the gardens yourselves, and get come ideas from fellow gardeners as to how to grow things. But be unique! Everyone has the opportunity to express their individuality with creative planting arrangements, artwork, and straight and precise or flowy rows.
Every couple of weeks I will be wandering through the garden to take snapshots of things as they grow, so here's to some good gardening ths year!
Karl J. Mogel