THURSDAY NIGHT WORKSHOP SERIES JUNE SCHEDULE

Every Thursday night at 6:30 we will be hosting an informative workshop at the community garden.

Our June Schedule is as follows

COMPANION PLANTING
Thursday June 2nd - 6:30 pm at the Community Garden
Companion planting helps build healthy soils and healthy plants. Learn what you can plant together to optimize your space and to yield a larger healthier crop. There are also plants that do not like each other and can hinder the growth of another when planted beside.

BUTTERFLY GARDENS
Thursday June 9th - 6:30 pm at the Community Garden
What we can plant in our gardens to help encourage our beneficial insects to stop by for a visit. Our beneficial insects help to pollinate our crops and keep detrimental insects at bay.

COMPOSTING
Thursday June 16th – 6:30 pm at the Community Garden
Learn proper methods of composting. What you can add to help speed up decomposition and preparations to add to the compost heap to help make healthy compost and the benefits of using compost in your garden.

KEY HOLE GARDENS
Thursday June 23rd – 6:30 pm at the Community Garden
Come and learn about this African style of gardening and help us build our own Keyhole garden at the community garden.

MULCHING AND GREEN MANURES
Thursday June 30th – 6:30 pm at the Community Garden
How to mulch, what to mulch and what you can use as mulch. What is green manure, the benefits using this farming practice and how and when to plant your green manure


The community garden is
located on 3rd ave between duke and albert st.

Time to plan the garden

So now that the sun is back, the temperatures are rising and the last frost date is getting closer. Planning your garden should be on your list. If you haven't started seeding your garden yet then you should get on it. Now is the time for seeding things like carrots, beets, lettuce, mustard greens, pak choy, arugula, spinach (any type of green), turnips, potatoes, onions, kale, parsnips, peas, radishes.
Keep your transplants inside until the first week of June, Unless you build a domed greenhouse over them for protection.
also when seeding early this gives you a chance to plant in succession. So if you plant lettuce and greens now, save some room to start some more in two weeks, this way you will have a continual harvest of fresh young greens, before they get a chance to bolt. you could also plant beets and turnips in succession, Your first crop should be seeded now and in three weeks you could seed the next. Radishes can be on a continual harvest planting every two to three weeks. Peas and beans can be planted now and then another batch in three weeks. Also remember that after you harvest something plant something else in its place. To ensure you optimize your gardens potential to the fullest.

plant your onions with your beets and your basil with Tomato
lettuce between the peas and bush bean with potato

WEEDS AND THEIR BENEFITS SATURDAY MAY 28TH 7:00PM

Dawne Mitchell an avid gardener and instructor will be coming to the community garden on Saturday may 28th. She will be talking about edible weeds that are coming up in the garden and how we can get an early start to our fresh greens. We will start off at the garden and then go for a walk around the north end to find what edibles are popping up. So please come join us.