May In the Ladner Community Garden

Happy gardening to all our members at the Ladner Community Garden. What a different season we are having this year. The sun has been shining with a few showers in between to keep our gardens watered. Perfect for growing our vegetables.

The grade three class planted this garden to assist our donations to the local food bank. Its time to plant a few more seeds in there where we can. Its all about successive plantings.

The potatoes we planted in March are doing great. Lets hope we can harvest a few next month.

I took this shot last night. Its so nice to visit the garden in the evenings. Remember to have your plots planted by May 31 as stated in the garden rules. You want to be able to harvest as much as you can from your allotment. The gardening season generally runs from March to October but watch some of us grow winter crops this year.

I think this plant is just beautiful. Those blue green leaves would be great mixed in a herbaceous border. Now I am getting ideas. I have corn and beans growing with my flowers at home. Anywhere I can find a bare spot I plant some more seeds.

So many allotments have new seedlings up! Keep up the good work everyone. Remember to mark your calendars. We are building a pergola on the weekend of June 23-24 and also having a community dinner on the Sunday. We would love to have volunteers if you are free. Just think, we will have a bit of shade to sit under soon. We will also be building an herb spiral soon so if you are interested in attending this class, let us know. Never heard of an herb spiral, check it out here. This will be a collection of herbs for all of us to share, kind of a communal garden.
If you have just planted seeds, be sure to water carefully until they have germinated. The top of the soil dries out quickly. Once your plants are up they don't need daily watering. You want to begin encouraging the roots to travel deep to find moisture. This will develop a stronger plant.
Good news, the allotments are full this year. We also have a waiting list of people interested. More and more people are wanting to grow their own food. That's a good thing.

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Its Official!

Its official. We finally received our incorporation papers. I know, what does that have to do with a community garden? Well you just don't start planting as we found out very quickly. You have to apply for a name for your society through the provincial government. First you apply for a name by checking trademarks and copyrights. Luckily Ladner Community Garden Society wasn't taken. You pay a fee for the name right away. The next step is applying for incorporation. You want to form a society and have directors as you can't lease public space without going through this process. Okay, another fee, a hundred dollars to be exact. Applying for incorporation is writing bylaws which can be painful at best if you want to write your own. Thank you Mark for doing such a wonderful job writing our bylaws. If you don't write your own, there are easier ways such as following out set bylaws as given in the Society Act. Our hard work as paid off as we received our red seal of approval

Growing Your Own Food

Carrot harvest Growing your own food just became even more important than ever. As prices increased this fall we saw lettuce and cauliflower go up in price. Reasons for that are many but the drought we had could be one of the reasons. Overall the transportation costs of everything are up due to the high cost of fuel and that's being passed on to the consumer. Of course, many of us are not earning any more than we did before. I predict that 2023 will see another resurgence of food growing like we did at the beginning of the pandemic. Some of us may be doing it with less space than we had before so that creates more challenges. Just to let you know how popular gardening has become, our community garden has a waitlist of over twenty people. They may not get a spot in the garden for several years. It's probably time for a new community garden to be set up in the community. To save money in the winter think about growing crops that store well like carrots, potatoes, win

Ladner Seedy Saturday is Only a Few Weeks Away!

Yes, it's time for Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2018. Our organizing committee is busy behind the scenes registering new and returning vendors, booking speakers and organizing the seed swap for the event. Are you a vendor wanting to come to Seedy Saturday? We still have a few tables left for lease. I am excited about our two speakers coming this year. Janis Matson is a well known garden speaker and owns Shoreline Landscape Design. Janis is an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley and also teaches classes at VanDusen Botanical Garden. Janis will be teaching us how to use ornamental grasses in the home garden. Our next speaker is Randal Atkinson. Known as West Coast Garden' s Plant Expert Extraordinaire, Randal is the go to person for design, plant selection, growing and care of plants. Randal is passionate about gardening and loves sharing his knowledge with the public. You can often see him teaching classes at West Coast Garden centre

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