September 7th Garden Day!

We had a beautiful garden day today - perfect weather! We watered, weeded, checked out the compost, and harvested beans and tomatoes! Next time we may even be able to pick the carrots! See you then!

 The sunflowers are getting so large, they are starting to droop.

 This sunflower is just about ready to bloom!

 Rebecca, Hannah, and Sasha picking beans!

 A bright and small sunflower.

Lamb's ear in the petting garden!

 Rebecca weeded diligently today!

 Sasha and Hannah weeding the petting garden!

 More weeding!

 Watering the beans!

 The tomato plants have grown in exponentially!

 Cosmos looking lovely - or as Hannah called them today, the "gizmos"!

 Hannah watering the nasturtiums!

 The zinnias at the edge of the garden are looking brilliant.

 Watering the sunflowers!

Mammoth sunflowers - growing bigger than Rebecca!

Cultivating Kids Garden Day!

Join us for Garden Day this Saturday, September 7th! Drop in anytime from 10AM until 11AM for weeding, watering, harvesting, and fun! Do wear sunscreen and a hat - it's going to be 75 and sunny! And as always, do not dress up for this program as we'll be digging in the dirt. All ages are welcome to help us in the garden!

Garden Day - this Thursday, August 22nd!

We hope to see you this Thursday, August 22nd, from 10AM until 11AM! We'll be weeding, harvesting, watering a lot (it's been hot!) and doing a craft! Don't forget to wear lots of sunscreen as the weather is supposed to be beautiful (but hot!) and also your best digging-in-the-dirt clothing! Hope to see you on Thursday morning!

Thursday July 18th Garden Day!

We had so much gardening fun this morning! We harvested some peas, weeded a lot, and watered everything (several times!) We found a few interesting bugs and had a blast despite the heat.

 We found an aphid!

 We also spotted this beetle underneath a zucchini plant!

 Checking out the zucchini plants.

 Maxx found a whole bunch of blooming zinnias!

 Maxx did a wonderful job watering the garden!

 Chloe helped us pick a lot of weeds!

 We harvested some peas!

 Diana helped us water (the plants and the pavement!)

Can you spot the dragonfly that Maxx found?

We'll see you next time on Thursday, August 8th! We'll be doing a (really fun!) craft and lots of more gardening fun!

Cultivating Kids Garden Day!

Ready for planting & painting!

This past Saturday, May 19th, we had our first Cultivating Kids Garden Day in the new Children's Room Garden!

Alyssum & Tomato

We had folks plant seedlings in the containers on the patio and decorate markers for them. Then water the container they planted.

Cucumber & Chive

The weather was just perfect for work in the garden!  We were able to get several stakes painted that we will eventually use for trellising flowers and vegetables.

 

Mary creating a colorful work!

Fun was had by all who attended and the children's garden is taking shape! Thanks to everyone who came out to help in the garden: volunteers and patrons alike!

Painting wonderful looking stakes!