minutes_april2000

President, Chris Burnard, called the meeting to order. We began with the education portion of the meeting. Linda Johnson from Scioto Gardens presented a very interesting slide show of native plants and shared her expertise on Ohio's native plants. She also offered plants for sale.

Business Meeting.
Secretary Report: The last minutes from the February meeting are out on the web. No corrections were noted

Treasurer Report: During the month of March, there were no income items and expenses of $713.42, including $630 State Fee and fees for postage and the education workshop. The remaining balance is $5,352.40.

Old Business:
Workshops - Carolyn Gibeaut gave an update on the workshop planning. The group had a brief meeting before tonight's meeting. Reminder that the time for Session 1 was changed to be from 1:00-3:00 on Sat. April 5, due to a room scheduling conflict.

CYOC - Audrey Hall gave an update on the CYOC. Eunice Hornsby had sent out an email on the perennial and vegetable garden at the CYOC to past participants. If you want to be added or removed from the CYOC team, please contact Eunice. There will be a planning meeting in April.

McCloud Park - Marsha Kiss gave an update. About two weeks ago the tubers were planted in the Marysville City Greenhouse to get a head start. An email will be sent out about upcoming clean up dates.

Milcreek Gardens -This is a workshop for the New MG Class on propagation with current members welcome to attend. They are planning on about 30 attendees. This was rescheduled for Sat., March 29, at 9:15 am at Milcreek Gardens. Kim Nicol will a provide demonstration on propagation.

Time Sheets - Debbie Brown reminded everyone to keep recording your hours and sending your timesheets. The deadline for the year is April 30. Please keep a copy of what you send in for your records.

Leaping Frog Award - Chris gave the frog to Roberta Gordon for the presenting a great talk on gourds at the Marysville Library.

Garden Tour - Since there were no responses from anyone regarding the Garden Tour, the Tour will be tabled for 2009.

Love and Learn - Harvey Goertz presented the results to the planning teams efforts. The plan is for 5 small gardens around 4x8. One will be directly in the ground with the other 4 being raised beds. Each garden will have a different soil combination/amendments. The results should show the effectiveness of different fertilizers and also the impact of raised beds. There will be at least 1 Field Day planned. Produce and flowers will be donated to Food Pantries and Nursing Homes. The total costs for soil and hardware is around $800. The project has been presented to Scotts and it looks very likely that we will get approximately $400 of the costs from them. Harvey is looking for anyone with a dump truck for hauling soil to help reduce costs. Around 12 people are needed to work on the project during the season. Marsha Kiss made a motion to accept the Love and Learn Project including a budget of $800. Marsha Lee seconded and the motion passed.

Coordinator's Report:
George reminded everyone to get hours in by April 30 to Debbie Brown.

New Business:
Spring Plant Sale: Harvey Goertz explained that an idea for a fund raiser at the Project Review Committee. It was a plan to purchase some woody ornamentals and trees from wholesalers at a cost of around $500. We would grow them until June. We would offer them for sale and any leftovers would be available for the August plant sale. The hope would be for the sale to bring at least $1,000 leaving at least $500 profit. Help would be needed for selecting plants, ordering, potting and caring for the plants as well as organizing the sale event. Mary Ann Haynes suggested that Amber Haynes had contacts with area wholesalers and might be able to assist with making contacts. This event would not take the place of the August plant sale but would supplement it. The overall consensus was that due to the tight timeframe the project would be tabled until next spring.

Plant seeds were made available for annual seed give away. Master Gardeners were asked to make a note of what you take and be prepared to give a report on how they grew during the upcoming growing season.

August Plant Sale - Nancy Mead has agreed to again chair the event. Mary McDonald is the co-chair for this year.

Next Meeting: Fourth Weds, April 23, 2008, at 7:00 PM at the Ag Center