Seed Swap

There is an organic gardening group in Grand Junction that is holding a seed swap at the Botanical Garden

When: Sunday, February 10 at 2:00pm

What: Bring seeds to swap, envelopes for seeds, sense of humor. Seeds can be store bought, saved seeds, or plant cuttings. Please mark donations with the species, variety, date of harvest or any other pertinent information. (Please take only a portion, and do save seed from what you take, so you can bring it to the next seed swap!)

This is a great opportunity to pick up some new seed varieties (either for your personal garden or the community garden) and to meet other gardeners!

Recap: Our (Almost) Fall Harvest Potluck

We had a great potluck last night at the garden! Delicious food and great company!

Thanks to all who attended! We're hoping to hold one more before the end of the season.

Tomato pie!

Eggplant rolls! 

So many delicious salads!

Fall Harvest Potluck DATE CHANGE

We changed the date of the Fall Harvest Potluck to Tuesday, September 18 immediately following the work session (instead of Tuesday, September 25). Feel free to join us even if you cannot make the work session.

Bring your friends and families, a dish to share, a chair and your own plate/bowl/utensils.

Please join us, even if you aren't currently a garden member but would like to learn more about the garden and how it works.

Part of last night's harvest

A big THANK YOU to all the members who showed up last night and helped weed the garden.

Garden Update and Fall Harvest Potluck

Hello Community Gardeners,

As the summer starts to wind down, we want to provide you with a garden update:

The garden is still thriving! We will continue to hold Tuesday evening work sessions until the end of the season (usually mid-October). The cooler evenings should be perfect for working in the garden! Remember that we'll also need a lot of help cleaning up the garden at the end of the season to prepare for next year.

A beautiful Tuesday night harvest

We have been harvesting a lot of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, green (and purple) beans, basil, tomatillos, chard, kale, potatoes and more! We will soon be reseeding greens for the fall (spinach and lettuces).

As always, if you cannot make the Tuesday work sessions, please feel free to work and harvest on your own time.

We will be holding our second community garden potluck of the season at the garden:

Fall Harvest Potluck

Tuesday September 25th

7:00pm (after the work session)

Please invite your families and friends and bring a dish to share, a chair and your own plate/bowl/utensils

Purple beans from last night's harvest

A huge thank you to everyone for your continued efforts in making this a successful year at the community garden!! It has been a fun and productive season, and we have enjoyed gardening with all of you!

Beautiful tomatoes from last night's harvest!

There is still a lot of time left in this growing season! Please continue to join us for Tuesday night work sessions.

Aug 14th Session: Weeding + Harvest Fest!

This should be a great cool night to work in the garden!  Please spend at least 30 minutes WEEDING before you begin harvesting; the garden is starting to look a little jungle like. 

For harvesting we'll be picking beans, kale, chard, basil, tomatoes, eggplant and maybe digging about 1/4 of the potatoes!  See you all this afternoon :)

Weeding

Thanks to everyone who showed up for last night's work session and potluck! Lots of weeding was done in the back half of the garden and lots of delicious food was consumed. If you stop by the garden to do some work this week, please continue the weeding along the fences and in the pathways. Don't forget about spicing up your cooking with herbs from the back beds, as well as a bunch of kale or chard as they are in abundance!