At our Small Group Gardening session today, gardeners planted sprouted Scarlett runner beans and snap peas in the vertical garden; and were thrilled to harvest a lemon cucumber, regular green cucumber and a few cherry tomatoes!
Today we also harvested potatoes, green beans, chard, herbs, zucchini, turnips, green onions, cabbage, purslane, and mixed berries.
THIS WEEK IN THE GARDEN:
Our long-term volunteer, Amy, did excellent work emptying and turning compost at one our the Small Group Gardening Sessions this week! Amy also watered the woodland area and newly planted areas - thanks Amy for your hard work and always friendly smile :)
Harvest included: zucchini, 3 cucumbers, bush beans, turnips, White Rose potatoes from Helmer’s Potatoes, arugula, onions and scallions.
At the “Planting for Fall/Winter Harvests” workshop Selina, Master Gardener, explained which vegetables are suitable to grow in cooler temperatures.
The Fall/Winter plot at RPCG was planted with lettuce, mache, cilantro, mizuna, raddichio, radishes, gai lan, komatsuna, spinach, beets, & turnips, to name a few.
View West Coast Seeds Fall Winter Planting Guide and scroll for a photo of another Fall/Winter Growing Guide by Linda Gilkeson.
Curious what you should be planting these days? Let us know your questions and our Master Gardeners can answer them!
Last week Selina, Master Gardener, gave 2 tours of RPCG, one with Master Gardeners, the other with David Suzuki Foundation Butterfly Rangers (both included physical distancing!).
We have seen 3 varieties of butterflies in the garden this year - Cabbage White Butterfly, Painted Lady & Western Swallowtail.
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50 E 30th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5V 2T9
Riley Park Community Garden is a food security project of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (102-1193 Kingsway)
We acknowledge that the land on which we garden and gather is the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories belonging to the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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