Vertical Garden Make It and Take It Night

6PM at Lisa Jacobsgaard's house

219 Monroe St, Washington, Il 61571

309-472-0297

Brink your husband and make it a date!

We will be making the pallet vertical gardens for you to take home. Pallets, chicken wire, and landscape fabric will be provided. If you have tools like: Staple gun and 1/4 inch staples, gloves, wire snips, or hammer, please bring them. Your kids are welcome, I have a nice paly set, sand box, and swings, or they can watch movie inside if you prefer.

Directions from Morton: Take 150 East to Main Street. Turn Left (North) and head to Washington. At the square, take a Right at the stop sign and go around the square and continue North on Main St. After the Rail Road tracks turn Left onto Monroe and continue about two blocks up. My house is a small (micro) white house on the Right just before the stop sign. Walk up the drive way and we will be around back on the patio. We have a shared driveway so please park on the street. There is parking on both sides of the street that should make it easy.

I hope everyone will come and make on of these neat gardens!

Book Club Location Change

For those of you planning on going to book club this Thursday - it is now going to be hosted at Lori Johnson's home in Washington. Please contact her if you need directions.

Play Group

This week why don't we meet up at the 5 points pool on Friday for their toddler swim. Here is the info from their website:

Join us for this parent-child program in the leisure pool. Children ages 1-5 enjoy the splash features and play stations with a parent/guardian. There is no charge for adults or infants, but you must be in the water with your child. Fee: $3 (Members- FREE)
Monday, Wednesday and Friday- 10:00-11:30 am

360 N. Wilmor Rd.

Washington, IL 61571

Baptism

Hey Ladies! We just wanted to send out a reminder that there is a baptism this coming Saturday the 14th at 7:30pm at the church for Christy Ortiz. Come support your fellow sister!

Self Reliant Garden Tip 4

Self Reliant Garden

What to start this week and what to direct sow in your garden.

As spring gets underway, the wonderful weather urges us to plant!

It's now time to start these seeds indoors for setting out later:

TOMATO!!!, Eggplant, Fennel, Peppers, Basil, Marjoram, Sage, Thyme.

* If you started tomatoes and other seeds already, check for signs they need replanted like, roots growing out from seed pots, wilting, and yellowing.

Just stick the plant in a larger pot, fill with dirt, and fertilize with a water soluble fertilizer like miracle grow or an organic fish emulsion.

And these you should direct plant in your garden or containers:

Beets,, Broccoli, Carrots, Chard, Endive, Fava Bean, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leek, Pac Choi, Parsnips,

Peas- both shell and snow(edible pod), Potatoes, Radishes, Spinach, Turnips, Chive, Cilantro, Parsley.

Wait until last frost date of May 15th to sow Cucumber, pumpkin, summer squash, winter squash or you may start indoors in a few weeks.

And lastly, buy starts of sets of these and plant out:

Onions, Scallions, Asparagus, Rhubarb.

Top 10 Crops: Central and Midwest Region

1. Slicing tomato
2. Sweet pepper
3. Cherry tomato
4. Onion
5. Bush snap bean
6. Carrot
7. Garlic
8. Paste tomato
9. Snow/snap pea
10. Lettuce

If you any questions or want to chat about your garden call, text, or email me any time! Lisa Jacobsgaard 309-472-0297 and lisaj1121@ymail.com

Spring Break Activities!

Hey Ladies! Spring break is here so here are a few fun ideas for the week

Play group this week on Monday! Monday looks to be the nicest weather so let's meet up at Washington park across the street from Lincoln Elementary at 10am.

ALSO

Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL on Friday April 6^th. It is a bit of a drive, but a fun place to go. We are planning on leaving Washington at 9am and meeting up at the park between 11:15 and 11:30. There is a $5 per car entrance fee. Bring lunch and come join the fun! There are tanks for the kids to climb on and a really neat war museum (First Division Museum). The address for the park is 1S151 Winfield Road Wheaton, IL 60189 phone # 630-668-5161. Here is the link for the park website http://www.cantigny.org/ Plan on meeting in the parking lot closest to the First Division Museum. Please call, text or email Amber Mickelson if you are planning on going so we will know who we are meeting up with.