Peagarden - Community Gardeners' Seasonal Tip

Remember 'Earth Hour  2012' Saturday,March 31, 2012

Folks SWITCH off all your lights 

between 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM, local time. 

Composting in the Rain

Yes folks it is that time of year - it can be raining cats and dogs one minute and then turn to bright sunshine!  Take care now to protect your compost pile from all this rain.  Our garden loves the rain, but our compost pile doesn’t!

The compost pile can turn sour and ‘very’ stinky from too much moisture during all these repeated rainstorms.

Extra or too much moisture can drown the air-breathing microbes, the good ones, from doing their job of breaking the material in the pile.

We hope that our post isn’t too late, but if your compost file is already “stinky” - go out right now and turn it to add more air and add more dry brown material, and voila mother nature’s microbes will take it from there! 

Next Breakfast meeting at the Skillet will be Sat. March 31, 2012, 7 AM, bring your plot plans!

Annual Earth Hour - Saturday - March 31, 2012 Turn Out Your Lights

Earth Hour - Saturday, March 31, 2012 
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM - Local Time

The Sky Tower Auckland, New Zealand

Every Year the World Wildlife Fund organizes a movement across the world to get everyone to turn off their lights for one hour.  This is an action to limit energy consumption, fight for climate change, and show respect for the environment.


Homes, schools, businesses and iconic landmarks across the planet will turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour.

At 8.30 pm local time on Saturday 31 March, Earth Hour 2012 will see hundreds of millions of people around the world cross borders of race, religion, culture, geography and society to unite in a single moment of contemplation for the planet and celebration of their year-round commitment to protect it.

This event has grown from a single-city initiative in 2007 to become the world’s largest display of environmental action, with citizens of 135 countries and territories across every continent coming together for Earth Hour 2012 indicating a growing global movement of positive change in environmental attitudes.

WHAT: Earth Hour 2012

WHEN: Saturday 31 March at 8.30pm in your local time zone

WHERE: Across the globe WHY: To celebrate your commitment to the planet with the people of the world

HOW: Switch off your lights, register your support and get more details at earthhour.org

Here is a link to homepage:  earthhour.org