Getting Started

The first meeting of the PennWell Community Garden Crew just wrapped up. I never noticed it before, but we've had for about two years a 12'X36' slightly raised bed on the northeast corner of the PennWell property. People have been trying to get this idea off and running for a while, apparently, and now we're getting ready to move some dirt!

My name is Jeff Postelwait, and I was volunteered to be the "education coordinator" of the group because I can run my mouth about gardening pretty well. (Whether or not I can manage to coax a tomato out of the ground this year is another matter) So as time goes on, I'll be using this blog to help coordinate our efforts and stay in touch with the other members, as well as provide little updates now and then on how things are growing. Maybe I'll snap a picture or two with my trusty iPhone.

We had some big ideas in the meeting, and it sounds like we'll be focusing on herbs and veggies. Most of the people in the group were at least somewhat familiar with growing what I call practical plants, although who's to say we might also plant some stuff later simply because it looks good.

As a reminder to our members, and to anyone who might be reading this, the Sand Springs Herbal Affair is April 21. If you ask me, it's an incredibly valuable source of knowledge and materials for any gardener in the Tulsa area. I've been going for the past four or five years, and they have some cool stuff there. Maybe we could do a meet-up, or at least grab a unique or interesting plant or two for the PennWell garden.

All right. Now that I've got this blog thing started, I'll just hit post and share it with the members we have right now. Hopefully we'll see our numbers grow as time goes on. When you have a garden, more hands always makes the work easier. I'll also try to update this with a complete list of our members as soon as I can get that.

UPDATE: Our members right now are confined to the Power Group, but of course we're open to anyone who wants to get in on this. Our members right now are: Jan Simpson, Amanda Brumby, Kathryn Dickerson, Sharryn Dotson, Traci Huntsman, Shelly Haire and Jeff Postelwait.