Families Plant Edamame on Father’s Day
We've been planting edamame for a few years here, but the 2023 planting has our attention. The seeds we planted this June were harvested here in 2023. Why didn't we use 2024's seeds? The plants gardeners cordoned off so the seed could dry on them must have had a...
What else is growing at the garden?
Changes Coming in Compostville
The Garden at 485 Elm began composting food scraps and garden waste in 2014. In that first growing season, we cobbled together some pallets and threw everything in them. It wasn't hot composting, but we kept our food scraps and lawn waste to ourselves. Our first...
Fresh food at the end of October
Most of the work now is garden cleanup, but there's still plenty to harvest and eat. http://
Gardening in sweatshirts again
The afternoons are comfortable for garden work and there's still plenty to do. This season, our cucumbers flowered and grew delicious. In the late July heat, the leaves turned yellow. By mid-August, all were dead. A gardener speculated that the double boxes were...
Past peak, but still growing
Garden productivity has peaked for the season. Where once walls of tomato plants stood, there is open air and cleared beds just planted with cover crop seed. Food remains abundant, though not as varied. There's more planting to be done.
The garden continues apace in October
Someone asked me, "How was the garden this season?" "Wonderful!" I replied. "It still is." We are fall gardening, with the end of some crops and the beginning of others. The light is turning autumn colors, rich and golden. We savor the days, each one now noticeably...
Tomatillos, okra, and the promise of Brussels sprouts
We're past summer and the days are suddenly shorter. But we haven't had our first frost.
We’re “Wild for Pollinators”
The Garden at 485 Elm is part of the Vermont Community Garden Network's Wild for Pollinators initiative. It's a very serious matter for our food crops that native bees, including honeybees, are in trouble. Pollinator-welcoming habitat in every garden, yard,...
This workshop is full! Free Backyard Composting Workshop
This workshop is full. Please stay tuned for additional opportunities. If you registered before the cutoff, please walk or bicycle if possible. Drivers, please park on another street to save the few driveway spots for those cannot walk as far. Love food, hate waste?...
Scenes from September Gardening
Bye-Bye Peas, Hello Squash
Gardeners and garden visitors have commented that our pea season seemed to last an unusually long time. Well, peas are over. And so much more is ready!
