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?
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...
Take that, deer!
We have deer fence, thanks to the City of Montpelier's Parks Department's generous support of local community gardens.
Knee-high by the 4th of July
And then some. Jason and I planted the third section of corn. Jason staked out the rows and put in many seeds. The second section of corn is knee high. the first section? Chest high at least. Sweet corn's a-comin'.
Ancient Sage
This sage is growing in the herb garden plot of The Garden at 485 Elm. The wood it's growing from is as much as 150 years old. In the 1880s, a man named Mitchell built a 2-room cabin in Cambridge, New York. When the town began water service, Mr. Mitchell added a...
Super Sunday
The gardeners at The Garden at 485 Elm had a very productive Sunday. In addition to completing immediate, ongoing needs like weeding, the team worked all day and brought longer-term projects to completion. ...
Shout-Outs While The Plants Drink Deeply
Finally, a deep, soaking mother-rain. The garden needs this. We're happy to hand watering duty over to Mother Nature for a few days. While the earth slakes her thirst, let's behold some of the bounty others have shared with The Garden at 485 Elm. ...
In which we need a lot of rain — and get a little
Chris N & Charles plan and gather tools to build a pea trellis ...
Watering in the Rain
Tonight I was watering the garden when I felt drops on my head. Now it’s pouring a mother rain, as Cindy describes it (in contrast with a booming, flashing father rain). Our garden needs it. We've had wonderful days with two and three shifts of gardeners. And we...
Three shifts of gardeners
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Soil Amendments and Brassica
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