Taking Care of Your Plot and Pathways!

Plot Plant Trimming- Our spring plants are thriving and growing! Remember to look at your plants to see if they are growing or hanging over your wooden plot edge and leaning into the pathways, even if you have multiple plots. If so, please clip all plants back to the wooden edge of your plot and keep pathways all the way around your plot clean of plants and weeds. This is a task that is on-going on a weekly basis. All personal items need to be kept inside your plot for safety reasons and not put in pathways, even if you have multiple plots.

Whole Garden Maintenance- Please keep an eye on how our garden is looking.
Weedy areas can always be taken care of, even if it is only 20 weeds at a time when you come to the garden!
More ambitious work could be to look for cardboard pathway areas and add wood chips on top or to weed gray or gold pathways areas next to your plot with a hula hoe located in the shed.

Help Needed to Pick up Hay Bales
Volunteers with trucks are needed in the morning to help MHCG board member Lynn Kaminski pick up hay bales on Saturday, June 6th. We pick them up at an archery range in south San Jose and the range is only open for pickups on the first Saturday of the month. (We are almost out of hay.) Even if someone strong would like to help but doesn’t have a truck, it would be greatly appreciated. Please send us an email with your phone contact information for Lynn to get in touch with you with the details. We only have one bale left.

We will work on spreading the last wood chips and finish the weeding in the entry way. We also might have some old poppy plants to pull in the pollinator garden. Thanks to everyone who has helped out lately to remove so many of the winter/spring weeds!

MHCG Gardening Class by Pat Day
Saturday, June 6, 9-11 am
On Saturday, June 6, 9:00 A.M. at the Morgan Hill Community Garden, Pat Day, Master Gardener, will teach a class on what we should be doing now in our gardens. The class will include what we should be planting, harvesting, succession planting, soil care, and much more. Highlights will include demonstrations of harvesting potatoes and other vegetables, deadheading flowers and discussion about African Blue Basils, the great bee attractor and pollinator plant. There might even be a few African Blue Basils to give away.

The class is free and everyone is welcome, MHCG members and non-members.

UC Master Gardener’s Classes– Always check their website for schedule changes, etc.
Here are some classes, but there are many more. Check the UC Master Gardener’s website for more information throughout the county.

Managing Gophers and Moles in Your Garden

Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Saratoga Library

13650 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga, CA

Summer Fruit Tree Care
Outlook
Saratoga Library13650 Saratoga AvenueSummer Fruit Tree Care – Morgan Hill
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Morgan Hill Library
660 W. Main Avenue
Morgan Hill, CA 95037

Growing Succulents- San Martin
Saturday, June 27, 2026 9:30-11:00 am
South County Teaching and Demonstration Garden
80 Highland Avenue (corner of Highland Ave. and Monterey Rd.)

MHCG Garden Class in July
Bee Presentation at the Morgan Hill Community Garden, Saturday, July 11, at 9 am. The Bee Keepers group will come and give us information about bees.

Looking Good!
The City came and mowed down some of our weeds! Hooray! But- you can find more to help out with! Please stop by the children’s area and the wood chip area near our tables and benches up to the Railroad Avenue fence. If everyone pulls 30 weeds whenever they come, it will make a big difference.

Our rained out work day will be rescheduled, but you can get a start on the weeds and on bringing wood chips over to any area that is covered with cardboard and still needs wood chips. Also, please help ADA gardeners by removing weeds in the raised beds area.

Most plots have been weeded and started with soil amendment and planting of crops. We hope to see everyone with a thriving plot at the garden very soon.

Extra jobs for work hour time:
The people who came to the last work day did a fantastic job making the garden look better! But of course, there is always more to do, especially in the Children’s area and around the raised beds. Please remember that you can also work independently (outside of your own plots and pathways) to help out. The sign in sheet in in the shed. Please include your plot number and the amount of time you worked.

*Easy weeding in the children’s area. (There is weed cloth underneath and the weeds just pull right out!)
*Bring large, chunky wood chips over in a wheelbarrow and place on any cardboard area that needs to be covered.
*Pulling of weeds at the entry under the walnut tree and in the inside parking area.
*Scrape off weeds in the gray and gold pathways with a hula hoe or other tool you prefer. Check to see if the pathways near your plots look nice.
*The garden now owns a weed whip to mow down tall weeds. Email us if you are experienced using that tool and have a desire to do so for a job MHCG needs to have done next. You will be put in contact with a board member who can give you access to the tool and perhaps work on the work day next weekend.

Work in your own plot- (gardener responsibility- not for work hours)
*Enjoy planting your crops! Almost every plot that is rented by someone has been cleared of weeds and cover crop and also has started soil work and planting of crops!
*Check your pathways. If they are packed down and you see dirt, please place cardboard in your pathways and cover with large, chunky wood chips.
*Cover your bare soil in your plot with plants, straw, etc. to keep weeds from sprouting. Weeds should continually be removed. No bare soil!

Watch for invasive bindweed to dig out with a tool. Get as far down on the root as far as you can get, hopefully finding the brown part of the root. Bindweed goes in the garbage cart and not out in the field. Bindweed is also known and Morning Glory and spreads out like a vine with a white flower. (All other weeds and plants do not go in the gray garbage carts.)

Other tool information 
We recently bought new hand tools and not all of them are still hanging in the shed. Please check your plots and garden bags to see if they accidentally got into those areas. Many are “Husky” tools with black handles.

FREE SEEDS! Evergreen Supply had seeds with an expiration date of December 31,2025 that they could no longer sell. They are still good, so they gave them to us and are located in a box in the shed. Be thinking of your early spring planning and planting schedule! Some people start seeds at home to get them growing so the birds don’t snack on the newly planted seeds or you can try planting and covering with some wire baskets, etc.

EXTRA PLOTS AVAILABLE! We still have some plots in most areas of the garden. Send us an  email if you are interested and we can let you know of plot numbers that are currently open. (Maximum of three plots per gardener allowed at the garden).