Pathway Project Phase 1: Gratitude for our gardeners

The Pathways Project is now completed for the West Block of the Garden (Phase 1).   

Sincere thanks to all gardeners who helped complete Phase 1!

Work bee attended on July 6

Cheryl, Lisa, May, Ken, Theresa, Jennifer, Richard, Frederique, Juliette, Dave

Work bee attended on July 13

Pam, Ty, Calgary Dream Centre team: Andy, Andrew, Gerry, Karyn, Lisa, Chuck, Florence,

Kerry, Dave, Maureen, Deanna, Wade and his wife and young son, Kim and Avi

Work bee attended on July 18th

Cheryl, Lisa, Cathy, Sheri
 

Work bee attended on July 20th

Pam &Ty, Calgary Dream Centre team: Robert, Mark & Ken, Cheryl, May & Ken, Deanna, Kerry, Jennifer, Cathy Lewis

First workbee of 2013!

THANK YOU!

FOR

 Visiting us at the garden table EARLY Saturday morning at Stampede breakfast - lots of questions and sharing.

AND

Joining us for the workbee afterwards.

What was accomplished?

•  All cardboard was moved from community centre's storage area and garden shed to outside the shed and tarped, now we can get in the shed!  Cardboard will be used in pathways project - keep tuned for dates.
• Tidy of the shed.
• More supplies ready for pathway project put in the shed.
• All the garbage was dumped into the bin in parking lot.
• Great attack on weeds in perennial bed and that invasive sumac
• Two plots dug up that are going to be planted with a test project of cover crops to increase soil nutrients (more details to come on this project)
• Whipper snipping between the plots

Lots of people from the pancake breakfast were strolling around the garden and viewing our beautiful bounty.  People were amazed what can grow in 4ft X 8ft!

BEST of all was

time spent with old friends and new friends.

As always

laughter, sharing and caring.  

 

and 

 It didn't rain!!

Thank you to Dave for donating the tomato cages.  These are in the shed if community gardeners need them in their plots.  

 New gardeners first harvest.....ahhhhhh....mmmmm

 

 

Plant Sale at the Mid-Sun Community Stampede Breakfast- stay afterwards for workbee

                  Sale

Mid-Sun Community Stampede Breakfast

Saturday, July 6 – from 7-9:30am

Thanks for supporting
the Community Garden!  

Cash only please.

·        Plants – varying varieties

●        Pack of 6 art carts with

envelopes –
Garden Photo Contest Winners
   1 pack for $7     

   2 packs for $10

●        Bird Feeders/Planters - Tea cup with copper stand
       $15 each

●        Crocheted rosette pins
       Large $4      Small $2

Stay after breakfast and join us at the Workbee in the garden.

What we are about...

Rave reviews for Kennebec potatoes, from FINE GARDENING magazine

Fine Gardening Magazine - August 2013 No. 152

#10 is 'Kennebec' potato

Days to maturity 80-85

Avoids most diseases - Arguably the hardest crop for the home gardener to grow, potatoes are disease-prone root vegetables that always seem to disappoint. Enter the Incredible Hulk of potatoes, 'Kennebec', which truly is a tough-as-nails beast. The list of diseases that this potato resists reads like the alphabet: PVA (potato virus A), PVY (potato virus Y), PVA (potato virus S), PVX (potato virus X), blackleg, and late blight. The seed tubers of this variety can be planted earlier than most potatoes, sprouting and resisting rot despite cool soil temperatures. You can expect highly productive plants that yield loads of uniform, white fleshed spuds.

article by Danielle Sherry - a senior editor, who expands her veggie garden each year to make room for even more tough veggies.

Great video link: See how we transplant...from no guff gardening

http://www.gardencoacheschat.com/no-guff-gardening-journal/2013/4/29/see-how-we-transplant.html

We're in the Calgary Herald!

Featured Garden: Mid-Sun Community Garden brought back to life after vandalism

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The Mid-Sun Community Garden held a Shedding the Past party last month.

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The Mid-Sun Community Garden Sponsor thanks its sponsors helping with the rebuild.

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The Mid-Sun Community Garden Community Association helps celebrate the rebirth of its community garden.

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The new shed for the Mid-Sun Community Garden is unveiled by MLA Jeff Wilson.

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Last month’s seed fundraiser for the Mid-Sun Community Garden.

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Residents sign up to rent plots at the Mid-Sun Community Garden Plot.

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The Mid-Sun Community Garden is coming back to life after being hit by vandals.

By Janet Melrose, For the Calgary Herald May 23, 2013

In 2012, the Mid-Sun Community Garden was victimized by acts of vandalism and theft. It was a heartbreaker after all the work the gardeners put into not only their plots, but the whole garden.
But this is a garden and a community that rallied around its community garden.
Under the leadership and dedication of the Garden Leadership Team of Lisa Klassen, Karyn Booth, Pamela Lester, and Cheryl Gibson, together with the Mid-Sun Community Association, this community garden has become “a community garden that could”
A few weekends ago, the community garden launched its 2013 season with a marvellous garden party to celebrate as they pull together and forge ahead under difficult circumstances; that could and did reach out and be supported by caring sponsors; that could be and is a community hub for its neighbourhood.
On a lovely spring day, the garden “shed-ed” its past with the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new shed donated by MLA Jeff Wilson that was transported to the garden by a flat-bed truck donated by Peter Demong, alderman for Ward 14. The party was timed to coincide with sponsorship of a Parade of Garage Sales in the area in partnership with Jen Hawkins, a Sutton Group Realtor, who is making the garden the beneficiary of sponsorship proceeds realized from this event. Tower Chrysler and greengate Garden Centre sponsored other garden improvements and door prizes for the party.
With cake and balloons, plus new signs designed by a local artist, sales of Alberta-grown seed potatoes and onion sets, door prizes, music and more the Mid-Sun Community gardeners and community at large truly celebrated their achievements and support from so many people and organizations.
The fun (and work) doesn’t stop there, either. This Saturday morning, the Community Garden is a recipient of a Telus Days of Giving work bee to transform the pathways between the beds.
Talk about a “community garden that could.” Way to go Mid-Sun Community Garden!

Janet Melrose is the Garden Animator for the Calgary Horticultural Society.

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