This is a one-hour Garden Class I presented in my Greenhouse that was published nationwide

 

 

A lot of our members work 8 - 5 shifts, Monday - Friday so no worries there.  Once we get into the main garden season (April - October), when there is a lot more light in the evening, we'll offer MANY opportunities to work at night.  Even our greenhouse in Holladay has lights in it, so you can work in there until 10 pm right now if we needed help.  The Gardens are closed on Sunday since all of our gardens belong to private home owners and they have been very generous to let a bunch of strangers work in their gardens Monday - Saturday, so we try to give them at least one day a week without strangers in their backyard.

Besides the items on this video, there are several things we can use in our gardens that you may not want to throw away quite yet.

Don't bring them to me yet, but in the next few weeks I'll show you on this blog what we do with these items.

• Old newspapers
• Plastic gallon milk or juice containers (rinsed out)
• Half Gallon milk containers - plastic or cardboard, (rinsed out)
• Pint size milk containers - (rinsed out)
• Dryer Lint - keep stashing it in a gallon size plastic ziplock bag
• Plastic water bottles
• 100 % polyester fabric

 

I am very excited to have you join our Community Garden Group this year and work with you.

I'll be posting more info in this blog during the next few weeks to make sure everyone gets their questions answered.

If you have a question that is not answered in the links below, will you send it to me in an email and I'll post the question and the answer for everyone to see. 

During the month of January I have had a very limited amount of time to work on Garden related things since I've been out of town a lot lately and I'm busy producing a lot of garden videos with professional video specialists.

There are plenty of things you can do to learn more about our garden group.

Please take a few minutes, if you would, and go to my website to learn more about our organization.

1)  You'll learn a lot about our group by watching a few recent garden videos we've made at: http://liveandthrive.com/Gardening/Home

2)  If you like what you see, you can register for our garden group on my website homepage, either as a "Working Garden Member" or as a Non-Working Garden Member".

3)  Learn about our garden group from my daily journal garden blogs that I posted throughout the 2011 year.

Our 2012 Garden Season will begin on Saturday, February 4th. We'll start to open all 14 of our gardens one by one starting Feb. 4th.  Some gardens won't be ready to work in until late March, depending on the weather and snow conditions.

Beginning in February, I will start posting daily garden blogs, setting up garden tours, orientation classes, meeting garden supervisors, and announce other garden classes i.e. how to start growing your own food from seed, how to plant peas by President's Day and several other early spring garden chores that will start in February and March.

I need the rest of January to finish producing some garden videos with video specialists.  These videos will be posted on my website and will be made available to our members and potential members, making it much easier for more people to receive info about us and learn about our organization without always having to contact me personally OR come to our Holladay Gardens.

We had a GREAT turnout today in both South Jordan Gardens, West Jordan A Garden and Holladay Gardens!

Not just today but for several days we have had LOTS of members all moving this work forward, a one small piece at a time!  It's impressive to watch everything get done by young and old, male and female!  We are like a bunch of little ants that conquer a huge mountain, one small step at a time!

We are so sorry to announce that Sarah Mecham's baby passed away.  She has been in our garden group for 2 years now.  She has helped us supervise the Riverton garden until lately.  She's also the grand daughter of Norma, the homeowner of our Riverton Garden.  She was expecting the birth of her new baby daughter in July.  Our prayers and thoughts will be with her and John during this very difficult time.