Memorial Day Weekend Garden Scramble
Memorial Day weekend is a huge gardening time for Vermonters. We're no exception. The weekend began on Friday at Cate Farm, where these great folks grew the garden's seedlings for basil (Italian, cinnamon, lemon, and Thai), Sungold cherry tomatoes, chili peppers...
What else is growing at the garden?
Planting alliums, a/k/a onions
As always happens when gardeners get together here, magic happened. Well, the magic of hard work plus the natural environment. Saturday's workday was about planting alliums. We have six rows of onions, including Walla-Walla whites, yellows, shallots, leeks, and...
Prepping beds, planting corn
Compost workdays
Thirteen gardeners completed important garden projects. Hannah, garden co-coordinator, led a compost system design-and-build, and today gardeners measured, cut, and assembled new cedar bins. Gardeners also tilled compost into beds, organized tools and materials for...
Indoor interlude
The Garden at 485 Elm starts a lot of seeds indoors and covered on porches. Starting our own seeds saves a lot of money over buying "starts" -- when someone else starts seeds, so gardeners can buy them as young plants ready to go into the ground. Today Hannah and I...
Planting peas and parsnips
First workday of 2016: Garlic
Spring’s beginnings
The 2016 season garden begins
The Garden at 485 Elm is full for 2016. We have new gardeners, as well as gardeners entering their second and third years here. There are already people on the waiting list, too.
“Community Gardens will save our planet”
People growing together
“Community gardens bring people together.” -Pete Seeger
