Ladner Community Garden

As we enjoy the holidays with family and friends, the board of directors would like to wish everyone who has been involved with the Ladner Community Garden, a heartfelt happy holidays and Merry Christmas. Without out dedicated volunteers our garden wouldn't have accomplished what it did this year. Even in winter the rock garden looks fabulous with its seed heads feeding the birds and hopefully reseeding for us at the same time. It is now the end of the garden season, this is the time to decide whether you would like to come back in 2013 for another great season, we would love to have you. Thank you to the allotment owners who have dropped off their cheque or cash. Application forms are available at Bryan's Bookstore in Ladner, through director,Sharon Hagel or we can email it to you. Please read over the new garden rules for 2013 before sending in your registration, payment is due January 1, 2013. Application forms & cash/cheques can be dropped off at Krist...

Ladner Seedy Saturday is just around the corner! It happens on February 9, 2013 at the Ladner Baptist Church from 10:am -3:pm. There is lots of parking and easy access for the disabled.  We have some new speakers coming to this fun community event. Tatiana Kouchnareva will be back to talk about growing tomatoes. She will also be selling her tomato seeds at the event.  Andrea Bellamy will also be presenting in the afternoon so mark your calendars. Andrea is the author of 'Sugar Snaps and Strawberries' and will be talking about guerrilla gardening. She will be doing a hands on presentation so it will be lots of fun.  We will also have wonderful seed vendors such as West Coast Seeds and Tatiana Tomatobase . We even have Mojave from  the Planting Seeds Project showing us how to clean seeds and doing an activity with children. Its a family event so bring your children.  Our popular seed exchange will be back. Bring in your unused organic seeds...

Its almost the end of 2012 and with it we close on what I think has been a very successful growing season. Even though we started with a cool spring, the summer came quick and stayed hot and dry, something we aren't used to here on the lower mainland of British Columbia. I don't ever recall watering in the month of September but our dry weather continued until the end of October. We began 2012 with our first Ladner Seedy Saturday. It was a huge success and brought like minded gardeners all under one roof. We shopped and traded seeds, bought plants, listened to great speakers and enjoyed the camaraderie that gardeners evoke when all get together. I can't wait until our second Seedy Saturday on February 9, 2013! The first classes came from Southpointe Academy in March and we started to get the ground ready for planting.   The food bank garden grew very well and we were able to donate almost 300 pounds of food to the local food bank. We had our first plant s...