Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Jun 18th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More! By Janine Butler, garden volunteer Do you know what I love about this volunteer gig? Every time I go to the garden I learn something new – this week was all about tomatoes (and yes, I say tom-ah-toe, not tom-ate-er). Tom Brinda, Assistant Executive Director of Horticulture at [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Jun 12th, 2009
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer In last week’s blog, I commented on how well all the plants had been growing over the last couple of weeks. Well guess what else has been growing? Yep, WEEDS! I spent a good hour or so on Saturday using a cool tool called a scuffle hoe – you move [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Jun 4th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Look What’s Growing! by Janine Butler, garden volunteer What a difference a couple of weeks can make! Look at these pictures that were taken this morning: The squash seeds that we planted a couple of weeks ago are doing great. I can’t believe that they could grow so big in such a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2009
Did you see Sunday’s Times-Dispatch? Not only did they feature Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for how well we are using social media — but they also featured the butterflies (plus a slideshow)! I’m so happy to be in such good company! And so honored to have made it to the front page. Kudos to Bill [...]
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