Greetings and May News...

Hi everyone! Some of you may recognise me from working in the Field project or other activities during the year; but as the new Greenhouse Manager I'd like to take the time to introduce myself:

Kaleigh Elian

~ Saskatoon is my hometown, and always has been.
~ I am going into my third year of Arts and

Science for a Bachelor of Arts in History and

Geology, then applying to the College of

Education for Elementary Education.

~ I've been with the Horticulture Club

for two years now, I enjoy learning new

methods, meeting enthusiastic members, planting, and most of all harvesting!!

~ I love photography, reading, cooking, travel, and enjoying free time when I have the chance to relax.

May News:

So far, the cucumber, eggplant, and herb sections have been terminated; and thank you to the members who came out to help take the plants down. The overall plan for May is to finish terminating our vegetable crops-tomatoes and peppers-so that Eldon is able to fully clean the Hort Club section. This will *hopefully* decrease or eliminate our chances of early diesease outbreaks.

What I'd like to do is set up a group 'take down' session for this Saturday at 3:30/4 pm in order to look after the tomato and pepper plants. We will only need ~ six (6) members to help out, and anyone who is interested is free to send me a message at kae074@mail.usask.ca

As a side-note, any members that would like to take the beautiful and established pepper or tomato plants from the greenhouse home with them for their own gardens/personal use are free to...the one condition is that the pots MUST be returned to the greehouse, since they were purchased by the U of S Agriculture Department and are not Horticulture property.

Have a great week and hope to see a few of you on Saturday!

~. Kaleigh

Help Wanted - Farmers Market

Help Wanted
Part Time

Manager’s Assistant

Email: skfarm@sasktel.net
Fax: 384-4850

Skills & Qualifications:

• Computer literacy and experience - Web page design and data
• entry, Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, Power Point and Access
• Related experience in working with non profits, co-operatives or other community based organizations
• Must be flexible to work weekends
• Excellent people and communication skills
• Professional and friendly attitude - ability to interact and empathize with people from all walks of life
• Ability to be self directed and work on your own
• Enthusiastic and energetic
• Strong organizational skills
• Reliable and punctual
• Approximately 10 - 15 hours per week

Duties

• Open and close markets
• Assist vendors and office when needed
• Assist with event planning
• Data Entry for distribution lists
• Attend meetings, taking of minutes, typing and distribution
• Assist with sales of vendor products

Application Deadline – May 23, 2009

(From Candace Knihniski - posted by Peter Le)

Gifts update

Hi all,
I am sure you are enjoying this great gardening weather.

Dr. Bruce Coulman (Head, Dept. Plant Sciences) had major surgery 2
weeks ago. He has been very supportive of the Hort Club (agreeing to
provide both the greenhouse space and the field space). Thus, a basket
of veggies, "mixed" wine, and 3 small houseplants were given to him on
behalf of the Hort Club. He was very touched by the gesture.

Jackie Bantle (Greenhouse and Field manager) and Eldon Siemens
(Greenhouse technician) have been very helpful to our club as well.
They were each given a "Thank you" card and $100 gift certificate to
the bookstore/tuck shop on campus. They were also very appreciative of the gesture.

Best wishes,
Karen

Greenhouse crop termination

As we are going to the end of the growing season, we will terminate all the crops in the greenhouse. Therefore, we encourage members to harvest all the tomatoes, sweet peppers and herbs. You are allowed to take whole herb pots home for your garden, but this does not include the pots (U of S property). For those who have taken herb pots home, please return the pots to the greenhouse in E where our crops are.

For the pepper and tomato groups, I will get some cuttings from your crops to save good varieties, so please do not prune the side shoots or new meristems.

Here is the schedule to terminate the crops:

• May 9: From 1pm to 3pm: terminate all the cucumbers and herbs. In addition, we will do some ornamental propagation.

The reason we're terminating the crops is because it's not feasible to keep the greenhouse crops during the summer, since the field will be much more productive during this time of the year. In addition, this will give us a break period to clean up our area and keep the bugs out. However, this year we will start planting our new crops around July, so that we can have fresh produce ready around November - December.

If you would like to know more information please don't hesitate to ask me.

Peter Le