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?
Planting Peas, Greens, and Brassica
Much planting happened in the garden on this cool and rainy final day of April.
1st Work Party: Parsnip Harvest and More
It was a day in the dirt. Several gardeners were at the Climate March here and Montpelier and in Washington, D.C., while some of us worked for the earth right here at the Garden at 485 Elm.
Pre-Work Party gardening with the Garden Teams
Registered gardeners at the Garden at 485 Elm are welcome to simply show up, check the task board, and get gardening. But gardeners who want to help plan and organize the garden participate in one or more teams: Soil Health, Compost, and Garden Planning &...
Early days in the garden season
The Garden at 485 Elm will hold our first work parties at the end of April. The new garden leadership teams are assessing the needs and planning the big planting days to come.
Our Garden’s Compostville in UVM Ext. Master Gardener News
Press release from the University of Vermont Extension Master Gardener program: COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT TURNS FOOD SCRAPS INTO BLACK GOLD Montpelier--When gardeners return to The Garden at 485 Elm in Montpelier next spring, they'll have a ready supply of "black gold"...
The garden all snug in its bed — asleep, but never dead
This is the quiet period between the end of the 2016 season, officially on Dec. 31, and the beginning of the 2017 season, on Jan. 1. We've pulled out spent crops, spread cover-crop seed, raked leaves over the beds, and turned the compost. But the garden is merely...
Fall Garden Cleanup
And the garden is transformed again.
Mid-October Work Party Transforms Garden
Community Tai Chi at the Garden
On a crisp fall afternoon, Baylen led us in a gentle tai chi and qigong practice by the river.
River Discovery Walk Discoveries
On a beautiful late summer Saturday morning, naturalist and gardener at 485 Elm, Ned Swanberg, introduced us to flora, fauna, and the river itself. We heard bird calls, identified native, exotic, and invasive plants, and found connections between our watershed and the...
