Plant Onions Early for Bigger Bounty Later
While we directly sow many seeds in the garden, our allium seedlings come from beautiful Cate Farm. We pick them up and plant them as early as possible to give onions and shallots time to grow. Onion seedlings are hardy and do fine in nighttime temperatures as low as...
What else is growing at the garden?
Spring Harvest: Jerusalem Artichokes
Spring food in the garden
Gardener at 485 Elm Diana Baron, a student at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, contributed these words and photos, except for Good King Henry image from Wikimedia Commons. Though we've just put our first seeds in the ground, there are already things to...
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.
