Ladner Community Garden

 Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo is tomorrow February 15 and I am pretty excited. It has been a long six months of organizing and I hope everyone in the community has a great time. What is  Seedy Saturday? A Seedy Saturday is a day for like minded gardeners to celebrate the upcoming spring season. They come to trade seeds, buy seed, garden accessories and listen to informative presentations. It's a great way to kick start the garden season. It looks like winter is almost over as people are posting photos of their Crocuses in full bloom. That's a sure sign spring isn't very far away. We will have some soil and manure sales outside tomorrow. We have a skid of Sea Soil and some steer manure. Get it early as last year it was sold out in one hour. The event starts at 10:00am with our first speaker, Brian Minter, at 10:15am. There is lots of free parking and a food cart will be on site to sustain you. If you need coffee, the Ladner Baptist Church will be running the...

I want to thank all the wonderful volunteers, vendors and the community of Delta for supporting the Ladner Community Garden at its first Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo event. A special thanks goes to the Ladner Baptist church for letting us use their facility to host this event. The church also served coffee and muffins which we all loved. The event ran smoothly and there was a fabulous assortment of products for all gardeners. We were up before dawn and ready to set up by 7am yesterday morning. Displays like this one supporting USC Canada were easy to put up. I loved the world food map. We had lots of other displays which I will post about this week. So much to say about all the good things that went on yesterday,the new partnerships made,new friendships and the conversation. Our vendors rolled in almost as soon as we had the tables set up. They quickly went to work setting up their tables. The seed swap was a bit hit. I had one lady bring in heirloom seeds from the...

I cant believe its only two more weeks until Ladner Seedy Saturday! As I sit here finalizing our program I thought I would share a bit about what you can expect at this event. We have some wonderful vendors coming. One of our local vendors is Robyn Leake of Wild Ginger Designs. I have known Robyn for many years and she is a wonderful garden designer. Robyn used to work at Sanderson's Nursery before it closed and also at David Hunter garden center. She has lectured all over and given hands on instruction on creating your own container plantings and arrangements. You can usually find Robyn at the Ladner Village Market during the summer. She will be selling her beautiful planters as well some funky rustic bird stakes for the garden. We also have Derry coming from Derry's Orchard and Nursery. Derry sells apple trees, blueberry bushes and lingon berries. I cant wait to see what she will be bringing to our Seedy Saturday. I have bought all my blueberry and raspberry plants from...

I am so happy to announce that our children's garden is built! It wouldn't have been possible without Jayson and his crew of volunteers from Ladner Baptist . It turns out some of our local churches were looking to help out in the community on June 11. Jayson, the youth pastor, approached me a few weeks ago and wondered if there was some way they could help us. Thats how the children's garden was born. Now these volunteers didn't just build our garden, some held a car wash, some did street cleanups and some did yard work for others. There are lots of ways to extend a helping hand in our community. Isn't that what community is all about? I greeted the lumber arrival and thought I could take a shot of it rolling off the truck. Oh no, it went way too fast for my little point and shoot camera. Jayson and his volunteers wearing their 'Love South Delta" T-shirts quickly got to work cutting the boards for the raised beds. They even brought all the tools needed for ...