We had a very successful field trip to get rocks! Many, many thanks to Sidney and Jack for getting the dumping trailer. It worked great! We had a huge turnout for the trip: Jack and Sidney, Gwen and Steve C, Vonne and Mickey, Lynn and Bill, Andy and Sasha, Steve H and Linda (who did I leave out??? Sorry if I left anyone out....) After getting the rocks to Cal State, a few extra dedicated members stayed around and pulled weeds! The following weekend, a few of us met at the garden and weeded and moved railroad ties and rocks around. The garden is really looking good now. There are Aloes in bloom and it looks like a few of the cactus are getting ready to burst into flower. On the Bad News front, we lost a couple of heads of the large Golden Barrel cluster, for unknown reasons. We removed the two heads that had rotted
and hope that the rot doesn't spread. We will have to wait and see. We have camouflaged the missing two heads with a large attractive rock. Also one of the Opuntias has dropped many stems, but the remaining stems look good, so no worries there. Opuntias are pretty good at spreading, so soon we won't even miss the parts that fell off.
Hope you can join us for a future work day!
Linda Cooley
