Happy New Year from the Never-Ending Garden
The garden is entirely snowed under. The snow and a thick layer of leaf mulch protect the growing beds beneath, preventing soil compaction and keeping the earth a bit warmer. You might think that means gardening is done for the season. If we're talking planting,...
What else is growing at the garden?
June 21 Garden Event: Living with the North Branch
How do people and eagles experience the river? What else lives in our neighborhood? Can we swim in the river? Can the trout breathe? Let’s walk with naturalist Ned Swanberg and talk together about how we can welcome birds and other living things in and around our...
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.
