Category: General Interest
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Simple Gifts Community Garden Featured in Smithsonian Gardens Blog!
Check out the latest blog post on the Smithsonian Institution’s Smithsonian Gardens website, featuring our very own Simple Gifts Community Garden! Anne shared our story a while back, and they liked it (of course!). This was just posted today. Share this with friends and neighbors, and maybe they would like…
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We need your help tomorrow!
Tomorrow is our last opportunity to plant cover crops this year! We really need your help to get these seeds in the ground before it’s too cold! Maybe you’re wondering why and what we’re planting this time of year. The two crops you see above are cover crops – crimson…
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Tuesday time change 5-7pm
Starting this week, we will garden on Tuesdays from 5-7pm so we can finish and clean up before dark. We are still getting lots of summer produce to harvest, but we’re planting rows with fall crops like collards, kale, cabbage, carrots, radishes, turnips and others. We still have lots to…
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Brand new Garden Video
Check out the new garden video about our Grand Opening! A huge thank you to our talented and generous videographer/editor/producer-extraordinaire, Katherine Pearce (aka Peggy and Jerry’s daughter)! Please share this with your neighbors, friends and co-workers. We need to get the word out that our garden has re-opened at a…
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The Spittin’ Image!
The garden team tested our biggest and best watermelon yesterday, and more importantly, everyone’s seed-spitting skills! It was a close contest, and the melon was so delicious, everybody kept coming back for more ammunition. Chris checked the readiness of the melon for the big games, and Anne deftly wielded our…
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Come share watermelon! Thursday garden hours have ended
We picked one of the biggest watermelons last night and we’re going to test our melon harvesting skills tomorrow by cutting it to share with everyone. I’ll bring it in a cooler on ice, so bring your appetite and maybe a napkin and we’ll see if the watermelons are as…
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Garden cancelled tonight
As you might have guessed, we won’t be having garden hours tonight. We would likely need to recruit a flock of ducks if we tried to get out there in this weather! A brave group of gardeners harvested as much as they could on Tuesday morning before the storm arrived,…
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New friends in the Garden
We are so excited to have our first sighting of pollinator caterpillars in the garden! The beautiful black swallowtail butterflies chose our bronze fennel as the nursery for their little caterpillar babies. We found eight (8) babies on one plant that didn’t have a lot of foliage left so we…
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Garden hours 7-11am tomorrow due to heat!
Garden hours are 7am-11am tomorrow due to dangerous heat! Please come early and help us harvest and care for our plants that are doing their best in this heat and no rain. Garden hours for Tuesdays and Thursdays are 6-8pm for the same reason. We had a small but mighty…
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Thursday evening garden hours begin tomorrow! Saturday time change!
Y’all remember that wet stuff that used to fall from the sky? We really NEED some of that, so if you know any ways to encourage a long, soaking-in rain, please do it! Thursday evening workdays begin tomorrow 6-8pm. Beans, squash, tomatoes and more all need to be picked pretty…
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