What a grand Harvest Dessert Celebration evening we had!
Festive decor with tablecloths! (thanks Kerry)
and table centres! (thanks Lisa)
We enjoyed a review of Garden activities and areas of Garden Gratitude.(thanks Karyn)
We enjoyed a review of Garden activities and areas of Garden Gratitude.(thanks Karyn)
This has been our best year yet in many ways!
We signed-up to reserve our first plot and tentatively our second plot for the next season (thanks Coreen)
The Garden Photo Contest entries looped on a big screen. Sumptious desserts! (thanks everyone!) Great coffee (thanks Kerry)
Everyone won a door prize!! (thanks Lisa and Karyn)
Certificates were presented to the winners of the Photography Contest. (thanks Devin for Judges comments)
Special Mid-Sun Community Garden certificates were presented to the following for their extra-special contributions this season:
- Heart of the Garden Award to Karyn
- Mr. Fix-It Award to Kerry
- Designer Extroidinare Award to Sheri
- Compost King Award to Chris
- Helping Hands Award to Options Calgary
- Supportive Staff Award to Kiara and the Mid-Sun Administration team
For award winners who could not attend the Celebration event, you can pick up your certificates at the Mid-Sun Admin Office.
One of our actiities involved posting notes on three topics. Here is what gardeners shared:
Gardening Tips
- Sow thinly & map well. Sow earlier than you think.
- Kale was yummy!
- Grow sweet peas
- I learned that cucumbers can be grown staked raather than taking so much room in the garden.
- Water regular - harvest often
- planta carrots & garlic in the Fall
- Share/swap perennials & bring stuff for our Garden
- For healthy tomatoes, add a little milk in water & give it to the plant.
- For avoiding ants or pests, add a little Tumeric in water and spay.repare and plant zucchiini very early to get a harvest.
- store your unused seeds in the fridge - makes for a better germination rate.
- Tenerelong carrots
Positive Experiences in the Garden
- Compost
- Met lots of great gardeners!
- Love the Gmail and the Blog
- highlight - spontaneous garden donations
- Thanks to May who drove all the way home to get Maureen sometomatoes XXX
- Meeting other gardeners in the garden - social serendipity!
- Enjoyed Work Bees
- Get to know so many new people
- Work bee & snacks & the people I met
- highlight - wedding in the garden
- How everyone came together & made it a community garden
- Chatting with gardeners
- Karyn is so positive & listens well & acts as needed
- Thanks May for the seeds
- Zucchini and spinach grew with almost no watering
- Loved making & seeing garden signs - especially the quotes
- Meeting new people
Ideas and Suggestions for the Garden
- We should plan a strawberry social for next June as a fund raiser
- Good it we could fall plant
- Work Bee could be on an evening not Saturday just for change
- Can the Food Bank plots be in one corner? Makes it easier to water all the FB plots.
- A sprinkler for the perennials would be great
- A shed will be great & cleaning up
- Maybe growing something by the rain barrels
- Next year a Food Bank competition between SE Community Garden
- Have snippers and an actual shovel by the compost bins (I can donate if you want them :)
- Need some instructions to plant bulbs i.e. water or not? How to protect them from squirrels?
-- Well done everyone!
