2013 ASU ESY Garden - In the Beginning.....

Welcome ASU Edible Schoolyard Gardeners and Interns to our 2013 growing season!!!  I am so happy to have our adopt-a-plots all filled with such a diverse group of gardeners this year.

I want to start out with a few well-deserved thank yous:
A BIG THANKS to Staff Senate, University College, and the College of Arts and Sciences for their generous financial support of the ESY.  This support will make a tremendous difference in the garden this year.

Thanks to Mike Bauer (my hubby) and Dave Walker (ESY Intern) for volunteering their time and skills to put together and place our new cedar raised beds in the garden.  They look just great!  I look forward to seeing them all filled and flourishing.

Thanks to ASU Landscaping for delivering much needed topsoil, compost and mulch for the garden.  We'll probably need some more real soon for the rest of the raised beds.

Thanks to Monique Eckerd, Biology animal lab and fellow gardner, for bringing bunny poo to the garden AND Thanks to the Humane Society's SNIPS herb sale for a donation of leftover plants for the garden, which Monique also dropped off.

Thanks in advance for our three enthusiastic ESY interns this summer: Dave Walker, Eric Tise, and Katy Willis. I can't wait to get started with you in the garden and see what great projects you have in mind.


Thanks to Chip Hope, instructor for SD's Pest Control Management course this summer, who will be donating some vegetable and herb starts to the garden.

And thanks to all you wonderful gardeners for adopting a plot at the ESY.  If this rain will ever stop, we'll have a fantastic harvest!

Here's some photos of spring in the garden:

See ya'll in the garden!
- Debbie Bauer, ESY Garden Manager, 2013