Garlic Scapes: A Delicious Garden Task
The garlic plants are sending out scapes. Our job is to harvest and eat them! If we left the scapes on the garlic plants, they'd grow into beautiful flowers, using up energy. Instead, gardeners snap or snip the entire scape from every plant, freeing up those resources...
What else is growing at the garden?
Our 2020 Garlic Crop Is Planted
On the beautiful first Saturday afternoon in November 2019, we planted our 2020 garlic crop. But it all began in 2018. Back on a snowy day in November 2018, we planted a garlic crop, which we harvested it in August 2019, shown here. Half the crop went home with...
Community Garden Seeks Food Scraps & a Compost Team
We have built it. Will they come? Compostville at the Garden at 485 Elm was built in 2018 and 2019 with help from a NEGEF grant and grant partners including the Vermont Community Garden Network, the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District, and the Composting...
Fall Gardening for Real
These are the very last cherry tomatoes of the season. Frost-sensitive plants are done. No more tomatoes, eggplants, hot peppers, basil, beans, or peas. Where tomatoes once grew, we're putting garden beds to bed. The harvesting board is sparse and getting sparser....
Healthy Garden Boundaries
Hopefully reducing the likelihood of being an attractive nuisance. This is a hospitable garden. Neighbors, friends, family, and clients of the onsite business are welcome here. Anyone can ask to visit or discuss joining as a gardener. There are limits. A few weeks ago...
First Frost Changes Everything
Montpelier finally had its first frost warning: thirty-one degrees. The garden grows down by the North Branch of the Winooski River. Here, it stays a bit warmer, but we weren't taking any chances. Gardeners mobilized to cover the lettuce beds. This keeps us in salads,...
Volunteers Help Make This Garden Grow
In two hours, three positive, productive, and skilled volunteers erased several hours’ worth of work from the hardworking gardeners’ docket. In contrast to the pounding rain and shin-high puddles that washed out our June 20 volunteer day, yesterday was gloriously...
Floral Interlude
Liz le Serviget, the garden's flower goddess, as seen by photographer and fellow gardener Irina Markova. Did you notice sweetest Melchi in the background?
Afternoon among the Herbs
On a gorgeous September afternoon, we experienced delicious and clinically helpful herbs. Our guide was a gardener here who is also a clinical herbalist intern at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. They work with herbs from appreciation for traditional...
Discoveries beyond the Garden Fence
The wild-growing area beyond the garden fence was mowed lawn until 2015. That's when we partnered with Friends of the Winooski River and US Fish and Wildlife biologists to restore 0.7 acres along the North Branch of the Winooski River with native riparian plants and...
Gratitude: UVM TREKkies transform the garden!
Volunteers worked here in the garden all day. It was part of their three-day, peer-led orientation adventures for incoming first-year students at University of Vermont. Many hands accomplished needful projects that we hadn't tackled amid the ongoing demands of garden...
