Garden club could do landscaping
Editor:
It is interesting to see that the city of Idaho Springs is planning to pay someone to landscape in the amount of $16,000. The Colorado Boulevard East plans include landscaping.
It would be a wonderful tribute to your talented, hard-working garden club volunteers (some are Master Gardeners) to give them money, as they are familiar with our zones and what is indigenous to our area.
They may also see the area in a different light and include more than Miner Street from 14th Street east to the Miner Street bridge.
We are all sent a tax bill.
Buddie Mees
Idaho Springs
Plots available at Idaho Springs community garden
Editor:
Registration season has officially started at the Idaho Springs community garden, and we have available plots for new gardeners.
Returning gardeners have until April 15 to renew their plot. After April 15, all plots that have not been renewed will be open to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis. These plots go very quickly every year, so act now to make sure you get one.
To register and/or for more information, contact Ursula at 303-522-0057 or ursula@scraps-to-soil.org, or visit us on our Facebook page (Scraps-to-Soil Neighborhood Compost Club).
This is our fifth anniversary as well as the last year at the triangle. We are looking forward to the improvements Colorado Boulevard will bring to Idaho Springs, as well as partnering with the city to help make sure this area is the kind of space that residents proudly use and visitors appreciate. Before that, however, we plan on having a great time at the garden in 2016.
Everyone is invited to join our events at the community garden. Opening day will be May 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come help us get the garden ready for the season. You are also invited to participate at our monthly “weed, grill & chill” days at the garden on June 13 at 4 p.m., July 16 at 10 a.m., Aug. 18 at 4 p.m. and Sept. 17 at 10 a.m.
Other days are great to visit as well. Don’t forget: The garden is a space for everyone. Feel free to join the fun, chat with your neighbors, stop and smell the roses, or just bask in the beauty any day of the week.
Ursula Marlin
Scraps-to-Soil vice president