Category: Leader Notes
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A Day for Potting
There was a chilly north wind this morning, but our intrepid team successfully transplanted tomato and eggplant bare-root seedlings into larger pots, getting them ready for our upcoming summer-season plantings. Larry has been nurturing these seedlings for us and will now steward their continued growth in new pots until we…
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Saturday Garden Starts at a Very Civilized 9 AM this Weekend
Garden Hours Sat., Mar. 28th: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Weather: Sunny, 45-50 degrees, wind 14 mph from the north We are well into our first of three seasons for the 2026 garden year, and things are looking pretty darned good! For those keeping score at home, this is our…
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Time to Get Ready for Spring Planting!
Wait – it’s only February! But March is right around the corner, and our first garden day of 2026 is March 7th (30 days). To get new crops ready to plant for the new season, Larry has been nurturing seedlings under grow lights. He has 400 seeds incubating, including: And…
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Helping the Food Insecure in Holly Springs
Simple Gifts Community Garden was honored to receive a certificate of appreciation this week from the Holly Springs Food Cupboard. Produce harvested on Tuesdays goes to this local food pantry, which serves nearly 1,500 local residents. Our garden provided 1,883 pounds of fresh, organic produce we grew in 2025 to…
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Brussels Sprouts Roasting by an Open Fire
With a little help from Carl’s fire pit, our garden team had a wonderful winter harvest morning. We harvested collards for New Year’s, taking some home for our own traditional southern New Year’s meals, but sending most of it to the Holly Springs Food Cupboard. As a bonus, we also…
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We Beat the Freeze!
Thanks to everyone that came today. We got it all in by 9:30 AM for delivery to The Point Food Pantry, thanks to a tremendous response by members to come out early to harvest all the cold-susceptible produce today before the upcoming freeze settles in Monday evening. Aproximately forty gardeners,…
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Big Harvest Tomorrow – all hands on deck
Big Harvest Before the Freeze Well maybe not THAT big, but still a lot to do before 9:30 AM, with a freeze warning for Monday night. Come early if you can. The priority will be to harvest all remaining tomatoes, peppers, and okra, after which we will pull the plants…
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Garden Cancelled Today – Thunderstorms
The garden workday is cancelled today, Sept. 27th, due to impending rain and thunderstorms this morning at the garden location. Rain is expected to start soon, with thunderstorms rolling in around 9 AM. We hope to see you next Tuesday evening, as we catch up on our harvest and garden…
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Strawberry Fields Forever
There was magic in the garden today, as everyone transformed our two remaining strawberry rows into three. One row was massively thinned as an experiment to see if the original plants will thrive and produce berries as wonderful as they did this year. Then, 50+ new plants that had been…
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Pollinators and a Pint of Pickled Peppers
There was a lot happening at the garden today! In addition to the usual harvest tasks, which yielded an amazing number of beautiful cantaloupe and watermelons, the team removed rows of strawberries and cucumbers and prepped and planted several rows of fall crops. Penny led a special pollinator census among…