MEETING MINUTES, Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Burnett Garden Club met at 7PM Thursday evening, March 12, 2009 at Grantsburg High School. There were 6 members and 1 guest in attendance: Ruth Anderson, Jane Bell, Wanda Biorn, Mary Charmoli, Pam Davies, Mary Griesbach and Kris Henning.

Secretary’s Report: Mary gave an overview of last month’s minutes, stating they had been posted in their entirety on the website. Minutes were accepted as presented with a motion by Mary C. seconded by Wanda. Mary also brought an Artesian Tea Ball demonstration for the evening.

Treasurer’s Report: There was no treasurer’s report due to the absence of Becky Tessman.

Old Business: Kris reported that Janet has arranged for 3 hosts for our community garden tour in July thus far: Mary Griesbach, Mary Charmoli and Virginia Hennessey. We noted that all these gardens are north of Highway 70! Janet hopes to arrange for more gardens for the tour.

New Business:

Mary Charmoli is this year’s Plant Sale Chairman, the sale being held on the Saturday of Big Gust Days weekend, June 6, 2009 8-noon or until sold out. Set-up will begin at 6:30. Mary will send out an email reminder of the needs to pull this together and how various members can contribute plants, time, other items or all of the above.

Kris reviewed an article in the current issue of Northern Gardener magazine about the best new annuals for 2009.

We then broke for refreshments provided by Pam and Wanda and also proceeded to share seeds, prepare soil and pots for seed planting. Everyone went home with new crops to nourish during these last days of winter and get thinking about the upcoming growing season.

Our next scheduled meeting is Thursday, April 9, 2009 when Rosemary Burkman will be teaching us how to make hose wreaths. A materials and ideas list was handed out earlier and is also available on our website. Refreshments will be provided by Tim & Becky Tessman.

My apologies for errors and any information that was inadvertently omitted.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Griesbach

Planning the plant sale

Hello Everyone!

It's that time of year again....time to begin thinking about our big fund-raiser, the Annual Plant Sale:

Saturday, June 6 (Big Gust Weekend)

Espresso Cabin

8:00 AM until Noon (Set-up at 6:30 AM)

As usual, we will need the following items to make this a success. I will be contacting specific members to ask if they will, once again, be responsible for certain tasks.

Here are the items that we need:

• Advertising - Our Garden Club Sign (who has it?); Posters/Small signs - to make a couple posters & a few small signs to place strategically around town; Contact the newspapers

• Canopy tent - we have one 10 x 10 and possibly a larger one
• Sawhorses with 2 x 4's for plant displays
• Old tables for plant displays
• An old tarp - great backdrop for large potted plants, shrubs, large clumps of plants (like Iris, Lilies)
• A card table for the check - out table
• Lawn chairs (each person usually brings their own on the off chance that they get to sit down)
• Cardboard boxes - for shoppers to take plants home in
• Plastic Bags - Kris has these
• Cash box & cash
• Pens & notepads for tallying plant sales
• Photos of plants on stakes - we have most of these from previous years but if you have something unusual or a different variety, email a photo to me or tell me the variety so I may print a photo
• Plants: As each of you may be starting some seeds inside, consider a few extra plants to donate to the plant sale. Of course, it's early yet, but as you clean out your flower beds this spring and need to divide, pot them up and bring them along.

If you are unable to participate, please let Kris know so that your plants can be dropped off somewhere or delivered that AM

Label Guidelines - Please label your plants with as much information as you know, even if is "Common Iris - Yellow." This is a BIG help! Also....

Pricing - generally small plants in 2" to 4" pots run $1. If the plant is larger, increase the price. As the pot and the size, quality or rarity (is that a word?) of the plant increases, then so does the price. Please use even numbers $1, $1.50, $2.00 and so forth.

Other Items - If you have other garden/nature-related items that you'd like to donate, we'd be happy to take them

Volunteers!!!! We ALWAYS need people to come, set up, staff the sale, and clean up. The sale goes quickly and it's a great time to visit with your fellow members and talk about our FAVORITE topic - gardening.

Don't forget your sunscreen and a jacket as the weather changes throughout the day.

(Remember, at the end of the sale, prices are "slashed" and you may go home with some wonderful additions for your own garden at a great price.)

I'll update you at the April 9th and May 14th meetings. Let me know what you can do to help. Anything will be appreciated!

Hope to see you there.

Mary Charmoli

715-349-8388

consult@saratogaweddings.com