Category: Leader Notes

  • Garden opens March 4th!

    This beautiful weather we’re having is making me think about putting peas and potatoes in the ground!  Hope y’all are thinking that too!  We’ve got an exciting year coming up in 2017 – our Plant Swap for Pollinators will be April 22.  We’ve got a freshly painted shed to decorate…

  • Summertime Garden Work Days

    Hi friends.  Grace and peace to you all. Just a reminder that we’re in the garden every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7pm.  And on Saturday mornings from 8 till the garden leader says we’re finished.   Usually that’s between 11-12.  All times are weather permitting, of course.  And as always, there’s…

  • Garden needs

    Hi garden friends,  The cucumbers, squash, peas, beans and peppers are producing like crazy.  We’ve been picking so many cucumbers you wouldn’t believe it!  The tomatoes are starting to come in too.  We have a lot to harvest each workday!  Here’s some things the garden needs:  YOU – we’d love to…

  • Thursday workday begin!

    Hi Gardeners, The Garden will start Thursday workdays this week.  The garden will be open from 5 to 7.  We have a great crop of cucumbers, squash, beans, blackberries and maybe cowpeas that will need picking.  I think our row of cukes has been taking performance enhancing drugs, it’s been…

  • Strawberry Adoptions Anyone?

    Hi garden friends, On June 4, we will be taking out our strawberry plants so that we will have room for summer crops in those two rows. Strawberries are perennial so if you are interested in taking some plants home to your garden, we’d love for you to have them.…

  • The Beasties are Back! 4-6-16

    Hi, gardeners, Fire ant mounds are popping up all around the outside of the garden. I’m looking for 10-15 volunteers to help me spread Amdro and calm our fire ant population before our garden kicks into full swing for the spring of 2016. (The more volunteers, the quicker we get…

  • Tuesday Garden Day!

    Good morning gardeners! Hope you remembered to spring forward Sunday. That also means we have garden Tuesday nights starting today! Come out and join us anytime between 5-7pm. We have lots of spring crops to plant and the water is on now. (Cross your fingers we don’t have another hard…

  • Garden start 2016!

    Two weeks from this Saturday is our first garden workday for 2016.  That’s exciting!  It will be great to see old friends and meet some of you that we’ve corresponded with over the winter. I’m looking forward to checking on our honeybees again and seeing how our pollinator garden perennials…

  • Garden cuties

    Garden cuties

     

  • Tuesday Garden Workday Canceled

    Dear Gardeners, It looks like the the rain and the low temps are going to keep us out of garden tonight. We will be back on Saturday morning, bright and early, at 8 a.m. We have lots of sweet potatoes and other goodies at the garden, so please come if…