Planting Garlic in 2023 to Harvest in 2024
Once Vermont is well into fall frosts, it's garlic planting time. Waiting until extended warm spells have ended ensures the garlic won't germinate and begin growing until spring. Flashback to midsummer: We harvested the garlic planted in 2022 and reserved hundreds of...
What else is growing at the garden?
Fall Equinox: Endings and beginnings
The fall equinox is upon us and, of course, the garden. We're back in sweatshirts and things are changing fast. ...
“What do I do with giant zucchini?”
I met a nice new person today. We walked around the garden. As we passed the vining plants, she pointed under some leaves and said, "Look at the giant zucchini." How had we missed these? Had they grown overnight? Each was more than two feet long. After she left, I...
Thinking Outside the Garden: Riverfront Protection & Invasives Management
The Garden at 485 Elm grows on a property that has 400 feet on the North Branch of the Winooski River. The garden's 1/4-acre is on higher ground than the riverfront. Still, we wondered if we could do anything to take better care of our waterfront. Montpelier is prone...
2nd Gleaning, Twice as Much
This is the second gleaning in The Garden at 485 Elm's partnership with Community Harvest of Central Vermont. The first gleaning in July yielded 40 pounds of food. Today, volunteers gleaned over 75 pounds of food. It has been delivered to The Montpelier Senior...
Om-nom-nom
Pardon us for talking with our mouths full. That's where things are at -- bursting with ripeness and fresh flavor. We did this together. ...
Work Day!
In the garden, every day is work day. But when we convene as a group, we get a lot done together. And have fun, too. ...
Young Hacks Academy: Thinking Outside the Garden
On July 22, The Garden at 485 Elm's garden coordinator, Cindy Delfino, led a session at Young Hacks Academy in Montpelier. Cindy had accepted an invitation to present the group of slightly-younger-than-tweens with a problem to solve. Many in the group had some garden...
Gleaning — Feeding Those in Need While Improving the Garden
Now, this is partnership. Today Community Harvest of Central Vermont gleaned 40 pounds of food in less than two hours. They left The Garden at 485 Elm in better condition than they found it. In fact, the garden hardly looks touched except where a few entirely...
How was that herb walk?
Gardeners from The Garden at 485 Elm gathered on a warm, sunny Saturday for a guided tour, tasting, and tincture-making led by Lroy, our herb garden gnome goddess and a second-year student at The Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. ...
Community Garden Herb Walk on Saturday (7/26)
Our community garden herbalist will guide us through the herb garden she planned and planted. We'll learn more about the herbs that are growing there, what they are good for, and how they become therapeutic plant-based medicine. Lroy is a second-year student at the...
