Tag: strawberries
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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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Calling all busy beavers! Let’s have some planting fun Saturday.
Saturday April 19th Garden Workday – 9 AM-Noon Come one, come all! Strap on those garden boots and gloves and let’s get this garden ready for summer! This Saturday, we will be preparing beds and planting at least seven new rows of young plants kindly started for us by both…
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New Gate on the North Side – Come on In!
We are a welcoming place, so what could be better than an additional way to enter the garden? Thanks to Carl’s construction expertise and an eager team of apprentices, we now have an additional gate on the north side of the garden. Good thing, too, since we have recently planted…
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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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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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