Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 18th

Our last potluck dinner and workshop for 2009 will be held on Wed, Nov. 18th at Wesley United Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St., Concord.  The potluck dinner starts at 5:45 pm and the workshop starts at 6:30 pm.  We’ll once again have a “harvest exchange”… bring any surplus items from your garden (or canned goods [...]

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Putting Your Garden to Bed

It’s late autumn and if you haven’t done it already, it is time to put your garden to bed for the winter. Sad but true. Winter will be here before you know it so it’s time to get to work! Some of us still have food in the garden. Right now, you may have cold [...]

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Plant now for crops next spring!

At our September meeting, Beth talked about what you can plant this fall in order to get crops next spring and summer. You can plant most cold weather vegetables now like chard, carrots, mustard, spinach, kale, beets, and parsnips. Lay down about an inch of compost, throw in a light feeding of blood meal, plant [...]

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Food Swap a success!

The Food Swap at our September meeting was a big success. Lots of gardeners brought extra produce from their garden, both fresh and preserved. We had a table FULL of produce. The only problem is that the gardeners didn’t want to take any produce home with them! After much urging, eventually about half the table [...]

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Aug. 19th Meeting: Community Garden Tour

We had a nice turn-out with a lot of friendly new faces for our meeting on Wednesday, August 19th. As usual, the potluck was delicious and most of us went up for seconds (and maybe thirds!). The gardens are busting with lovely produce and that makes for wonderful potlucks! After dinner, we headed over to [...]

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Topic for June: Compost and Weed Control

Our next meeting is Wednesday, June 17. So mark your calendars! We will be talking about composting and weed control. Lots to discuss! If the weather cooperates, we may head out to the community gardens for part of the meeting for a demonstration. At our last meeting, Beth spent a lot of time explaining the [...]

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New! “Planting Dates” Section!

At our last meeting Beth began to talk about planting dates for the Concord area but she ran out of time. As promised, I have created a “Planting Dates” section here as a resource for local gardeners! There are two sections… One is a guide for Starting Seeds Indoors. Here you will find a guide [...]

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March ’09 Meeting: Planning the Vegetable Garden

“PLANNING THE VEGETABLE GARDEN” Beth McGuinn gave a wonderful talk about “Planning the Vegetable Garden”. She shared her story about her love of gardening and how it has grown over the past years. She grew up gardening with her father, graduated to nurturing a whisky barrel full of lettuce right after college and now she [...]

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