Gardens for Life Meeting on Ordering Seeds for Various Growing Conditions and Cold Frames

An invite from our friend Debbie Barr for a talk tonight, Feb. 9th at Harvey Wheeler Community Center at 7:30 PM.


Hope you can make it!
Kitty


Hello Fellow Gardeners, 

Come on your own, or bring a friend! Garden/Life program is today, FEBRUARY 9 AT 7:30 PM at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center. We will talk about ordering seeds for various growing conditions AND how to make (and use) a cold frame with experienced gardeners Debbie Bier (FEDCO and seeds) and David Bearg (cold frame construction). RSVP to deb01742@comcast.net

Speaker David Bearg, eco-design gardener and engineer will talk with powerpoint to illustrate Building and Use of Cold frames; Learn how to design, build and use coldframes to extend the growing season in early spring and late fall.

  

Debbie Bier, East Quarter Community Gardens, will talk about what to seeds to order online for our joint FEDCO order. Share info on your favorites and losers. The more people sign up, the bigger the discount. Save Money! Support this employee owned, seed company with a non-Monsanto/Genetically Modified policy. Bring past plant lists or your current seed order form...or paper/pen to take notes!

See you tonight!

Debbie Barr

Grow Your Food 101 on Thursday, January 12 at 7:30 pm @Harvey Wheeler Community Center

A reminder to sign up ASAP for our first of 2012 Garden/Life program Grow Your Food 101 on Thursday, January 12 at 7:30 pm with Hasso Ewing and Robin Wilkerson @ Harvey Wheeler Community Center in West Concord.  SPACE IS LIMITED TO ENSURE INTERACTION: WE HAVE ROOM FOR 6 MORE! Come on your own, or bring a friend! Please RSVP by Jan 10 to: deb01742@comcast.net.

This mid-winter workshop is designed to help you begin planning a small food garden before the growing season has begun. We will discuss compost, building the garden site, fencing, coldframes, seed ordering, starting seedlings at home, and lots more. Ideas - and handouts - presented to both inspire and educate.

Robin Wilkerson is a long time vegetable gardener in Lincoln, MA. She keeps a small flock of chickens that help her keep weeds at bay. Hasso Ewing, the primary vege grower at Black Brook Farm in Carlisle, wants everyone to experience the joy of growing, and eating, from your own food gardens.

You will enjoy this fast paced, practical presentation by a duo who have appeared with popular acclaim by CC Adult Education and the Concord Public Library.

See you on January 12!

Best wishes to you and yours for a healthy, happy new year.

Debbie Barr

Tomatoes, Calcium and Soil Warming Tips

One of our Gardeners would like some help with these questions below. I'm sure these may be on all of our minds prior to planting season. Please post a reply if you have some ideas, thanks!

• How to avoid tomato blight on our small plots? - There's not that many locations to plant.
• Adding calcium to the soil with egg shells - how much?
• Keeping soil warmer in early season - red plastic, plastic row covers?