Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator That’s folksy talk referring to the fall vegetable garden. At Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden we have all the old tomato plants cleared, the stakes & cages stacked, a winter cover crop of annual rye and red clover sown, and we’re just a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator It was a gorgeous morning at Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden. We took a day off from pampering the cole crops, and applied our energy to the incremental removal of some of the hundreds of tomato plants. The process of preparing the garden [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2009
By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer The growing season may be over, but there’s still plenty to be done in the Community Kitchen Garden and a little bit of rain doesn’t stop the volunteers at Lewis Ginter! Last week we had a good crew show up regardless of the rain and we picked the last of [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Aug 27th, 2009
by Janine Butler, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden volunteer We are two-thirds of the way to our goal of donating 10,000 pounds of vegetables to FeedMore! (FeedMore is the umbrella organization for the Central Virginia FoodBank and Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia.) On Monday, Karen Clowers, horticulture coordinator at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, delivered a [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Aug 10th, 2009
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer I have been working in the vegetable garden at Lewis Ginter for several months now; planting the vegetables, weeding and mulching, and harvesting along with many other volunteers. So I am pleased to bring you this ‘special report’ and show you more about what happens to the vegetables once they [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Home Demo Garden by Janine Butler, garden volunteer This week we spent some time tending the home demo garden. This is a small raised bed, approximately 4’ by 12’ that shows just how much home gardeners could grow in their own back yard, in a small area. It’s jam-packed with veggies [...]
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 Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on May 20th, 2009
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer Under the watchful eye of Tom Brinda, Assistant Executive Director of Horticulture & Education, the first team of vegetable garden volunteers got things moving on Saturday! And what a team it was! Five ladies, including myself showed up bright and early to continue the work that was started last Thursday [...]
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