Mulch and Compost Day, Saturday October 5, 2013

After the night of the Variety Show a number of church members were back at Peoples the next day. It was a beautiful crisp fall day in South Portland and the church garden superintendants had scheduled a day to weed and fall feed the gardens on the grounds. Marlene Tordoff, Doreen Gay, Ruth Doughty and Carol Bruneau pulled weeds, repositioned plants, and put white vinegar on the walkways to remove weeds. While they were doing this Tom Nelson was realigning the Cross walk that separates the garden into 4 distinct gardens.

Once this was done Walter Greer had arrived with a yard of mulch and a yard of compost to distribute around the property. Three wheelbarrows were employed to distribute the load in and around shrubs on the property as well as add to the gardens found between Ellis Hall and the Church. Most of the mulch and compost was delivered to each spot by Dave Bruneau and Art Tordoff with the ladies taking their turns. Walter and David cut out a new garden outside the kitchen door of Ellis Hall and planted some Hostas in that location. Trimming around the shrubs and edging the lawn was accomplished by Art Tordoff as well as blowing out sand, dirt and tar from the Ellis Hall parking lot.

 

While Tom was working on the Cross in the garden he uncovered a mystery that may be a slate from the old walk to the parsonage that at one time was at this location before Ellis Hall was built.

From 8:30 AM until noon the church yard was buzzing with activity and a good time was had by all in spite of the fact most of us knew we had been bending and stretching muscles that had not been used in that was for that long.