Leola Street Community Garden Workday and Summer Planting Workshop Saturday, June 14

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 2008-06-11 08:35.

The Leola Street Community Garden in Boone is looking quite good this year, and the dynamics of the wonderful urban gardeners cooperating there make for an inspiring and diverse place. The garden group has monthly workdays scheduled through the rest of the season, and two of those will include brief workshops and question and answer sessions presented by NC Cooperative Extension. The first of these will be on Saturday, June 14. On this day, the topics of ideal harvesting conditions for vegetable crops, planting later-season crops into those areas freed-up by harvests, and mulching for water conservation will be the focus. However, participants are also welcome to raise questions on pest control and any other issues that may be going on in their garden plots. Both this 6/14 workshop, and the 9/13 workshop on Fall Cover Crops are free and open to the public. While the topics will be tailored to the size and scales of the community garden plots, you are welcome to attend even if you garden elsewhere. For more information about the Leola Street Community Garden, visit http://www.leolastreetgarden.org/

The full schedule of Leola Street Garden workdays is:

  • June 14th Succession Planting, Harvesting, Summer Mulching (Richard Boylan of NC Cooperative Extension conducting the workshop from 2-4pm)
  • July 12th Celebrate Harvest and share recipes and fall crops
  • Aug 16th Clean Up Before 3rd Annual Local Food & Renewable Energy Fundraiser (TBA)
  • Sept. 13th Workday (Richard Boylan of NC Cooperative Extension speaks about Fall Cover Crops 2-4pm)
  • Oct. 18th Put the Gardens to Bed
  • Nov. 8th Winter Bulb Gardening and Final Clean Up before winter