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 producing so much. We also…
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. Please come join us and…
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 done!) Many of you have…
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 freeze.) You’ll notice lots of…
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 have fared. Of course we’ll…
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 you can — even if…
*** SWEET POTATOES ALERT ***
Hi, friends, We harvested the sweet potatoes on Tuesday and we have buckets of sweet potatoes to share with our gardeners. Take home some ‘taters, and they will be cured and ready for cooking for Thanksgiving or Christmas! Also: We are having a friend of the garden come in soon with his tractor to plow…
Tuesday Garden Work day
… will be at 6pm instead of 5pm. Bring plenty of water to drink!
Saturday Workday
Hi Garden Friends, The garden is abundant, the bees are busy and the weather looks to be beautiful this weekend. I know schedules are busy and there are so many things to do this time of year, but please consider joining us tomorrow morning for a little “dirt therapy”. We have many small tasks that…
At our Tuesday workday, Sandra Webb brought us chocolate and other fixins’. Our gardeners harvested fresh strawberries from our two strawberry beds and washed the berries. Sandra heated up the chocolate at one of our picnic tables. And we had chocolate-covered strawberries — YUM! Thank you, Sandra and all the harvesters for this moment of…
Society of St. Andrew at Simple Gifts Garden
Yesterday Bruce and Penny Oland from the Society of St. Andrew visited Simple Gifts Garden. Bruce is Triangle Area Gleaning Coordinator for St. Andrew. He is also a generous man! St. Andrew and Simple Gifts Garden both support the WWCM Food Bank, so Bruce gave us one hundred feet of potato netting that St. Andrew…
