Category: General Interest
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Strawberry plant give-away!
Our strawberries are just about done fruiting which means you have a great opportunity to take some of these plants home for your garden! Strawberries are perennial meaning they will survive and fruit again next spring. However, we’ve found that they make smaller, harder and fewer berries if you leave…
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Tater time!
We harvested over 280 pounds of potatoes from 3 of our 4 row this morning! We got some beautiful dark red Norlands, Yukon golds and Pontiacs. We still have one row of German butterballs that we’ll be harvesting soon. We also harvested 4 rows of garlic, lettuce, swiss chard, strawberries,…
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Potatoes, garlic and time change!
Come join us this Saturday for the best treasure hunt in town – digging potatoes! We have four rows of potatoes and we’ll need to get them out of the ground carefully and quickly before our produce transport volunteer comes at 9:30am. (The Point Care Pantry gets our Saturday produce…
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Garden tonight rescheduled to Thursday!
Due to the rain, we won’t have garden tonight. We have a lot of stuff to do still before the Grand Opening on Saturday, so if you can come Thursday 5-7pm (or whenever we finish) that would be a BIG help. Please remember to invite your neighbors, co-workers and friends…
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Help with our Grand Opening!
We’re coming down to the wire to get ready for our Grand Opening one week from tomorrow! We’ll have lots of folks from all over the community visiting to learn about the garden and about our sustainability efforts. I hope you’ll join us tomorrow and/or Tuesday to help get things…
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Garden cancelled tomorrow!
Looks like another rainy Saturday tomorrow. We were planning to water a lot of the new crops we’ve planted, but it looks that’s taken care of. 🙂 We have lots of new beds to build, but it’s too wet to till, so we’ll hold off until Tuesday or next Saturday.…
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A Spiffy New Fence for the Garden!
Thanks to Eagle-Scout candidate Yagya Kasera of BSA Troop 320 in Fuquay Varina, Simple Gifts Community Garden now has a beautiful, new split-rail fence along the road frontage. This not only enhances the overall appearance of the garden, as you approach it, but it provides a great safety barrier to…
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Garden cancelled tomorrow – early hours this TUESDAY!
It looks like we will very likely have heavy rain tomorrow morning including the possibility of severe weather so Saturday garden is cancelled. We will start Tuesday garden this coming week though and the mid week weather looks much improved! Normal garden hours this time of year for Tuesdays is…
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A New Home for Purple Martins at Simple Gifts Community Garden
Continuing the garden’s partnership with the South Wake Conservationists, we were happy to install a new purple martin house assembly at the garden, just in time for nesting season. These amazing birds are just coming in from Brazil for the spring and early summer, as part of their annual migration.…
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