Sign Planting, Plant Sale and ....

June is here and our garden club calendar starts out with a flurry of activity:

June 2, 2011 5:30 pm at the Grantsburg sign on Hwy 70, Annual Sign Planting. Bring gloves and shovels and any other cultivating tools you like. We will clean out the beds and plant annuals along the boarder. Refreshments to follow.

June 4, 2011 6:30 am Saturday in front of the Espresso Cabin. This is our Annual Plant Sale (8 am to noon). Rain or shine. Dress for the weather. We will be setting up, selling and tearing down. We need members to help set up and sell but if you can't get there that early, come when you can. This is a fun event and members usually go home with a lot of plants for their own gardens!!

June 16, 2011 Garden jaunt to Rush City to see Wanda Bjorn's garden as well as another private garden (possibly). We will also make a stop at Melon Vine Farm. Dessert at Grant House in Rush City (if you haven't been to the Grant House, this will be a treat!) 5:30 pm carpool from the High School.

Hope to see you all there!!

May 2011, Meeting Minutes

Burnett Garden Club

Meeting Minutes

May, 2011

Ten members were present at the May 12, 2011 meeting of the Burnett Garden Club held at room 111, Grantsburg High School. They were: Kris H., Wanda, Pam, Georgianna, Gaye, Kelly, Lucille, Mary G, Linnea and Rick .

Kris called the meeting to order and read the minutes from the April 14, 2011, meeting. No corrections to the minutes were offered. The minutes were approved with a unanimous vote, after a motion by Linnea, seconded by Wanda. April 2011 minutes have been posted to the blog.

The Treasurer’s report was not made as the Treasurer was absent. Last month’s balance was $1909.38. Kris had funds from early sales of plants at the plant-potting event last week. She will hold those funds until the sale.

Old Business:

• The weeding calendar for the Grantsburg sign was handed out so each member would have a copy.
• Our Community Garden Tour still needs a 4th garden preferably in the Grantsburg area. Alma’s gardens may be a possibility if we do not get any other offers.
• The potting party held ad Kris’s last week was a great success with over 350 perennials and 37 shrubs potted up for the sale. 13 shrubs/trees from last year survived. Any plants brought in for the sale should be nicely potted and labeled.
• Tables are needed for the sale. Kris has 2 8-foot tables, Wanda will bring 1, Mary C will bring 2, Georgianna will bring 1. Linnea and Rick will bring saw horses if we need them for more tables. Kris will be providing a large and a small canopy for shelter.
• Kris handed out Plant Sale flyers to be posted by members and will send a digital file to Pam to send out to the full membership to post where appropriate.
• We need boxes and flats for the sale.
• Bring lawn chairs to the sale
• Linea to bring sign
• Becky will have the cash box and seed money
• 6:30 AM setup.
• Our Circle nursery tour, while a fun idea, has been cancelled due to lack of member participants.
• Dahlia bulbs came in along with Begonia bulbs. These were handed out. There are some still available.

New Business:

• Funky Garden’s North of Marine on St. Croix sent our club a $10.00 off coupon. I anyone would like it, contact Kris. They have also offered our club a tour.
• Grantsburg Sign Planting will be June 2 at 5:30.
• There are a number of events this summer throughout the area. Check the printed booklet or the blog calendar for these events.

No other business. Meeting was adjourned with a unanimous vote after a motion by Wanda, seconded by Gaye.

These minutes will be posted to the blog for review and presented at the next official meeting in September for approval. Please direct any corrections to pameladavies@yahoo.com

Our presenter tonight will be plant pathologist and mushroom expert, John Menge, who will speak on Identification and Basic Science of Local Mushrooms. Refreshments will be provided by Gaye and Linnea.

These minutes are respectfully submitted by Pam Davies

Potting Party a great success

We had a great time at the potting party! and got lots of plants potted!!

Meeting Reminder, Thursday, May 12, 7:00 PM

Our next meeting is on May 12, 2011 7:00 pm, at the Grantsburg High School, room 111.

Plant pathologist and mushroom expert, Dr. John Menge, (retired UC Riverside plant pathology professor and friend of Crex Meadows) will speak on Identification and Basic Science of Local Mushrooms.

Refreshments will be provided by Gaye and Linnea.

Plant Potting Party at Kris's Thursday, May 5, 6:00

Wow, with this cold weather it is hard to think of getting out there and digging up those clumps that need separating but Thursday is our potting party at Kris's. We need to get those excess plants potted up for the plant sale next month. Don't forget any extra seedlings you may have. Kris will give plenty of TLC to these plants and by June they will be dazzling for our sale.

Bring your seedlings and your plant clumps, dirt clinging to the roots, and any extra larger size plastic plant pots to Kris's at 22163 Spirit Lake Road E. (70 to Little Wood Lake Road), (715) 689-3456

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April 2011, Meeting Minutes

Burnett County Garden Club Meeting

Meeting called to order by Kris Henning.

Secretary notes read by Kris Henning, with only one correction. Refreshments were served by Kris Henning and Ruth Andersen at our last meeting.

Minutes approved by Wanda Biorn and Cindy Kollar.

Treasurer report read by Becky Tessman. We have $1909.38 in our garden account.

Old business:

• Kris brought begonias to share with Club members as a result of her presentation last month “Spring into Color”
• Kris also brought a sign out sheet for those who would rather have Dahlia’s when she receives them.
• We will save the re-vamping of the By-laws until this fall sometime.
• We have 3 gardens signed up so far for the Local Garden Tours, if you know anyone else who would be interested please call Janet Byers. The Tour is scheduled for July 14.
• Becky passed around the volunteer sign up sheet for weeding at the Village sign garden We will be cleaning up that garden on April 27^th weather permitting at 5:30pm. Please bring rakes, gloves, pruners and buckets.
• Discussion was held regarding the Circle Garden Tour on May 22^nd which tentatively would include North Branch, St Croix Falls and or the Sunshine Nursery.

New business:

• We will meet at Kris Henning’s home to pot up our plants for the garden sale on May 5^th. Linnea bought Hostas at the garden seminar in Minong which need to be repotted. If anyone else has anything to be potted please bring them to Kris’s on that night. We are also in need of gallon and quart pots. Kris is in need of a new table for repotting plants and the garden club approves the funds for Kris’s husband to build one.
• Our plant sale id on June 4^th. We are in need of canopies and tables. If you are selling your plants be sure they are labeled, it would also be nice if you have pictures available of the plant. We will be placing flyers of the sale around town and placing an ad in the Big Gust day garage sale flyer.
• Just a reminder regarding the Greenhouse tour at the Wood River Nursery. Dean will be gracious to take us on tour on the new and old favorite plants on sale this year. We will meet there at 10:00am on Saturday.
• Next month meeting will include Mushroom Basics.

Meeting adjourned by Alma and Wanda

Our Presentation tonight is “Overview of Beekeeping” by Jonathan Maslow and Tim Tessman. This was a wonderful and informative program regarding beekeeping. This was a great opportunity to learn more about our local pollinators we rely on for our flowers and crops and to learn from such gifted and well learned educators.

We closed the meeting with refreshments served by Jeanette and Cindy.

Respectfully submitted by

Rosemary Burkman, secretary

Preparing the Grantsburg sign for planting Wednesday, April 27

We will be cleaning up the Grantsburg sign beds on Wednesday, April 27^th at 5:30 pm. Bring rakes, buckets, etc. for weeding and dress appropriately!!

See you all there!