Our little sprouts are doing well in the new giving garden, wood chips have been spread around the back yard and we are getting ready to erect our new greenhouse. Our next tasks are to create a level foundation for the greenhouse out of 4 x 4’s and start to assemble.
We will do this in 2 work parties:
Sun Sept 7 from 2 – 4 pm – level soil, build the foundation and attach the greenhouse base
Sat Sept 13 from 10 am – 12 pm – assemble the rest of the greenhouse
If you are interested in helping install the greenhouse on either day, contact Jenny with your availability.
You can participate in other ways as well! Contact Jenny about any of the following:
- If you would like to devote a portion of your garden to growing vegetables for the Ballard Food Bank next Spring and would like to get veggie starts from our Sprouts program, please send your contact info and we let you know what we are growing and when the plant starts are ready for pick up in central Ballard.
- If you do your own starts and expect to have more than you can fit in your garden and would like those to go to giving gardens, we are happy to receive and distribute those for you.
- We’re happy to have more volunteers help with work parties next Spring where we plant seeds or transplant starts into bigger pots.
- We can always use volunteers to weed and help improve the garden in preparation for showing it on the Edible Garden Tour next year!
Below are some photos from our wood chips work day and of our giving garden growing!
As always we’ll be relying on our neighbors to identify and help produce quality educational workshops, displays and programming that reflect the variety of sustainability practices that can be adopted by individuals and people working together in our neighborhood. If you’d like to be part of the planning team, please contact 
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Our 15th Annual Festival — 15 years, wow! — is set for Saturday, September 22nd in Ballard Commons Park.
Excited to get your hands into the soil even though that final frost of the year has not yet arrived?
This walking or biking tour provides examples of creative uses of parking strips, containers, raised beds, chicken coops, fruit trees, berries, bees and more! Meet the gardeners and ask questions. Be inspired! Check out your neighbors’ gardens. The tour includes a dozen gardens to explore within walking distance of Trinity United Methodist Church and Salmon Bay School. Your ticket includes a map of gardens and one entry into a Raffle of gardening books, supplies & Fiskars tools. Local NW gardening authors will be on hand to answer your gardening questions.
When: Saturday June 29, 2013, 10am – 3pm
