Category: Seasonal Crops
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Garden collard harvest – Wed., Dec. 31st at 10am!
Happy winter days to you all! This coming Wednesday, December 31st we will gather at the garden at 10am to harvest collards and other overwintering crops for ourselves and the food bank. Collards are part of many southerners’ New Year’s traditional meal, symbolizing good fortune in the coming year. It…
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Strawberry plant giveaway!
Tomorrow we will be transplanting young strawberry plants to new beds. We have way more plants than we have room so if you’d like to take some home to plant, please come help us at the garden tomorrow 8am-noon. There will be instructions available so never fear! Hope to see…
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Tomorrow – strawberry plant giveaway and the Great Southeast Pollinator Census
Hope you can join us at the garden tomorrow for a fun day of planting and counting! The weather looks to be spectacular too! We’ll be pulling out some of our strawberry plants which you are welcome to take home! We have way more plants than we will need to…
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Garlic week!!
Tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday we will have all of our lovely dried garlic back at the garden! We will set aside some of it to plant this November (for harvest next summer). The rest will be available to you and our local food banks. Because we hung this garlic to…
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Planting brassicas and meeting new friends!
Tomorrow morning from 9am to noon we’ll be planting kale, cabbage and broccoli seedlings that Larry started weeks ago as well as other cold weather crops from seed. We will continue rescuing our strawberries from the weeds that have tried to overtake them during the winter. And we’ll be preparing…
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Come celebrate Nathan!
I hope you all can join us for our last workday of 2024 this Saturday from 9am to noon. We will be planting asparagus crowns, weeding and tucking in some of the beds for winter (meaning thick layers of leaf mulch) and celebrating Nathan Jesperson’s achievement as we award him…
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Hope to see you Tuesday and Thursday!
We have a big week coming up at the garden! On Tuesday, we’ll be planting 250 strawberry plants and could use your help getting them in the ground! This will be a multi-stage process and we’ll have 3 beds to plant, so there’s plenty for everyone to do. On Thursday,…
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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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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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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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