More garden workshops coming

For those that have been enjoying the garden workshop series, and those that have not had a chance to check them out yet - there are 2 more workshops coming up in May.

May 8 - Compost Crawl - Compost scientist Katherine Buckley from the Ag Research Station will tour some of the gardens to show us how to make good compost out of our garden scraps. A chipper may be involved!

May 31 - Preserving - The first in a series of preserving workshops - how to save our precious veggies and fruit for eating through the year. Join us at 6:30 at the Brandon Friendship Centre. Meegwetch to BFC for giving us the space.

Next Gardening Workshop - Organics!

The second in our garden workshop series is coming up tomorrow, 6:30 at the Parks Complex Garage on McGregor. Linda Boys will give us the basics of organic gardening - hope to see you there!

Cleaned up gardens!

Garden Clean Up Day at Hummingbird was a big success - despite winds gusting to 70 km/h! A bunch of people turned up to pitch in and pick bricks, pull weeds, and move rubble. Brian brought his trailer and hauled all the bricks away, along with other miscellaneous rubble. Many hands made light work of picking up anything that didn't blow away.

We also moved some raspberry suckers from the side of the garden plots into the separate raspberry bed. Many of the plants from last year managed to grow legs and walk away over the winter, but there were plenty of suckers coming up in the beds to replace them.

The old plots are now tilled, and will soon be re-staked ready for planting (cold weather crops only!). The new plots have also been tilled over once but will likely need another tilling before they are ready to use. We hope to have everything ready to go by the beginning of May.

Hard work and silliness at garden cleanup!

Garden Cleanup Day - Saturday April 10

I know it's short notice, but at the garden meeting yesterday we decided to have a pre-tilling garden cleanup day this Saturday, April 10. Come around noon, bring a garden fork, shovel, pail, and anything else you might need to clean up your plots from last year. We will be tilling the ground for the new plots first, to get started softening the dirt, so we have a few days to get the perennial weeds out of the existing plots.

Now is our chance to get rid of the dandelions, move renegade raspberry canes, and generally get roots out of the way of the tiller. This guy above will just turn into more of his kind if he gets into the tiller, so we'd best dig them out before that happens.

Some of us have already done cleanup and are ready to go - but I hope to see many out there on Saturday!