May 25 – After a very rainy Memorial Day weekend, Mr Kyle came out on the end of the day Memorial Day to pull up 100 square feet of sod for the vegetable part of our garden! This was in preparation for our long-awaited DUMP TRUCK DAY!

May 26 – With perfect weather, our Storytime crew, curious patrons, volunteers, Mr Kyle, and library staff gathered to listen to Mr Kyle read to us before the big Black and Gold Compost dump! Next, the kids took turns making their own dump truck runs to the garden plot to fill up our new garden with compost! In two hours time, and with a lot of laughs, not only did we have a new garden space, but our hands and faces were covered with almost as much dirt as great memories!

Later in the day, volunteers and staff put up a fence, worked together to plant pollinators in the pollinator bed, and cleaned up as Mr Kyle replanted sod around the library property to spruce things up! Looking forward and based on weather patterns and one cold night ahead, the decision was made to wait one more week before getting our greenhouse seedlings in the ground. Meantime, gutters will go up over our container beds so that the roofline drip doesn’t hurt our fragile stems.

This week’s pictures say it all: