Garden Tips and ideas from the Harvest Celebratio​n

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)

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!