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Even though there's snow on the ground, you can get fresh produce, locally and hydroponically grown, from Operation Grow, a project of Rosewood Shelter, at the old LCBO. Until able to open full-time, look for Operation Grow's pop-up shops.

MCG doesn't have trees overhead but recommends that leaves not be bagged. Instead, leaves can be swept into the garden and used as mulch. Furthermore, they decompose and supply the garden with nutrients. You can even mow-and-mulch them so they break down faster. The Canadian Wildlife Federation has this and more ideas.

Natural bee nest material is recommended over commercial ones as advertised in Garden Making. Bundling 20 cm hollow stems such as daylily works well and can be composted after a season of use. Commercial products can harbour pest or disease, so require thorough annual cleaning.

Read the whole article and more in Garden Making.

It's harvest time! We grew apples, beans, peas, squashes, lettuce, and so much more. And the foods you can make: sides, salads, pies.... Just in time for Thanksgiving.

Julie Barker (in hat) and Susan Hirst on behalf of Midland Community Gardens, receiving the 2017 Simcoe County Food And Agriculture Charter Award for Best Community Garden, with Gerry Marshall, mayor of Penetanguishene (in green) and George Cornell, mayor of Tiny Township.

There are zucchinis growing in the gardens for Zucchinimania!

A "Three Sisters" Garden

Midland Community Gardens has won the 2017 Simcoe County Food And Agriculture Charter Award for Best Community Garden!

Rain, rain, make things grow!

Soon the peas and beans will show!
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Much thanks to the Gillies-File family for the new boxes!

'We all love lists. As we click on a promising headline, we anticipate an easily digested scrap of knowledge – not too much information, not burdened with complexity, but knowledge nevertheless - simplified, ordered, finite, authoritative. Armed with a list, the gardener can face up with a measure of confidence to the bewildering array of choices in the seed catalogue or garden centre. '--more

Niki Jabbour writes: 'I’m always searching for vegetable crops that go above and beyond normal expectations. I want plants that will produce a generous harvest, yet not take up too much precious garden space. I also want them to be disease and insect resistant, as well as relatively low maintenance. These might seem like unreasonable demands, but my vertical vegetable crops deliver all of this and more.' [read more]

Come Grow Together!

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