Gardening: Resolve to be ready for spring planting

The holidays have come and gone. Resolutions have been made and broken. Now we New England gardeners are faced with that long, dismal wait before we can start our gardens, and it’s a good time to think about those resolutions we never made: the garden resolutions.
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60 Free Seed Catalogs and Plant Catalogs

Now is the time to order vegetable and flower seed catalogs.
You will be able to spend cold winter days browsing through the catalogs and planning for the warm days of spring and summer.
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60 Free Seed Catalogs and Plant Catalogs

Zinnias: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Zinnia Flowers | The Old Farmer's Almanac

Zinnias: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Zinnia Flowers | The Old Farmer's Almanac: Zinnias are one of the easiest plants to grow, as they grow quickly and bloom heavily. Zinnia flowers make a massive burst of color in your garden, and they attract butterflies.

Garden Meeting: March 6 2018

Meet at the Mt. Pleasant Library on Tuesday, March 6th at 6:30 pm.
We will be discussing plans for the 2018 season.
New members are welcome.

About Davis Park Community Garden

The Davis Park Community Garden provides garden plots to residents of the Smith Hill, Elmhurst, and Valley neighborhoods in the city of Providence, RI.

Garden members can rent plots on a yearly basis. The garden plots vary in size, but most are 4’ x 10’ and 4’ x 8’. Rental fees range from $10 to $50.

Members are required to maintain their plots in accordance with common organic gardening practices (no chemical fertilizers or pesticides, no invasive species planted, etc).

Work days are held monthly from April to October where members join together to help maintain and improve the garden.

Meetings are held in the Fall, Winter and Spring.

All gardeners are expected to contribute 4 hours per month to community service projects involving the garden.

Garden members are encouraged to volunteer for various jobs and teams that help maintain and improve the garden

Garden members help maintain a herb garden, strawberry plot, blueberry bushes, raspberry plants, grape vines, flower beds. Members are entitled to harvest these plants throughout the growing season.

The garden maintains a compost bin and finished compost is available for all garden members.

Garden funds are used to purchase compost in the Spring to supplement our own compost.

The city forestry department provides wood chip mulch free of charge.

Two yard hydrants provide water for the garden. The parks department performs major repairs.

The garden also provides tools that all members can use to maintain their plot and other areas of the garden. Some of the tools are shovels, cultivators, lawnmowers, string trimmer, and hand tools.

Weekly Garden News June 6th

Here’s what’s happening in the garden for June 6^th 2017

Tomato Cages

Our excess tomato cages will be given away.

We will place an ad on Craigslist and put up a sign at the garden entrance

If you you need any cages, please claim them as soon as possible.

Picnic Tables

If you would like to help with the repair of the picnic tables please send and email to Matt

We will then schedule a time to complete the project.

Garden Hoses

We will keep two garden hoses and giveaway the rest of them.

If you would like a free garden hose please take one by the end of the week.

Wood Chips

We are still waiting for a delivery of wood chips

Unused Plots - Clean out plots

We need to continue to clean out plots that have not been rented.

If you would like to help, check the bulletin board for a list of plots that can be cleaned.

Mulch around Trees

We need someone to place wood chip mulch around the trees at the top of the hillside.

Any help would be appreciated.

Abandoned\unkempt Plot Policy

By now you should have your plot planted or ready to plant.

Don’t forget that we will enforcing the abandoned\unkempt plot policy.

Terrace planting bed

We continue to sheet mulch above the terrace to create a planting bed for next year.

Plot numbers

If you need a plot number sign, please email Matt or Nina.

June Work Day

Our monthly work day is on Saturday June 17^th

We will concentrate on improving the hillside area around the grape vines.

New Border

The border along the gravel path has been installed.

Thank you to Bob for staining the borders.

Clean up hillside task

There is litter and other debris on the hillside.

Please considered picking up the some trash the next time you are at the garden

That’s all for this week.

Hope to see you in the garden!