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FLORAL PARK VOLUNTEER PROJECTS 2025 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />Floral Park Volunteer Projects 2025 <br />Thursday, February 20, 2025 <br />George Kruse <br />Dan Dietz <br /> <br />Spring <br />Clear gardens of winter vegetation. Take dead seed stalks to east Xcel easement. Best done prior to first <br />emersion of spring bulbs, or after bloom and flowers have dropped. We usually wait until after the <br />bloom of bulbs in G2 where most of the bulbs are planted to allow insects and small animals to continue <br />to winter under the leaf cover. <br />Burdock removal Project (late May): <br />• Dig up second year burdock. (This early in season too many, too small.) (gloves, spade) <br />• Pulling plants is best done in the spring when soil is moist. <br />• Plants can be thrown off trail to decompose. <br />Garlic Mustard Removal Project (late May?): <br />• Identify large plots, dig out and strain out roots. There are many such areas throughout the park <br />along trails. <br />• Tools: gloves, fork, four prong hoe, spade, paper grocery bag. <br />Garden #1 (dogwoods, sunflowers, Susan’s): <br />• Cut and remove dead plant stalks. Save dogwoods (3). <br />• Define natural garden border (currently 3- to 4-inch-wide shallow chip or mulch filled trench) <br />• Rake off leaves and take to compost pile. <br />• Tools: stiff rakes, loppers, cape cod weeder, hedge shears, four-pronged hoe, leaf blower, <br />canvass tarp. <br />Garden #2 (spring bulbs), early spring: <br />• Cut and remove dead plant stalks <br />• Rake off leaves. Be careful for spring plants. <br />• Define natural garden border (currently 3- to 4-inch-wide shallow chip or mulch filled trench) <br />• Clear/Clean butterfly pool. Rinse out pool a couple of times to get rid of old sediment and dead <br />algae. Rebuild sides of pool, if necessary, where rocks have fallen off. Bottom of pool should be <br />just one level of rocks. <br />• Turn over north end bulb garden, add compost and replant with large bulb plants like tulips, then <br />layer with medium sided and finally small (daffodils, Siberian iris, ???) <br />• Thin out blackeyed-susan’s and sunflowers. <br />• Tools: gloves, spade, rake, hand spade, lopper, shears. <br />Garden #3 (cup flowers), early spring: <br />• Cut and remove dead plant stalks