WELCOME
The Larkspur California Community Garden provides Larkspur residents space in 73 small garden plots, a tool shed, a compost area and a communal orchard. This Organic garden,
located in Piper Park was established in 1982.
If you are interested in joining the garden community and if you live in Larkspur or Greenbrae, contact and sign up with the Larkspur Recreation Department.
See the Contact Us page for details.
The Larkspur California Community Garden provides Larkspur residents space in 73 small garden plots, a tool shed, a compost area and a communal orchard. This Organic garden,
located in Piper Park was established in 1982.
If you are interested in joining the garden community and if you live in Larkspur or Greenbrae, contact and sign up with the Larkspur Recreation Department.
See the Contact Us page for details.
Please mark your calendars:GARDEN WORKDAY and POTLUCK
-Next garden start-up Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 9A.M.
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Hello Gardeners,
Welcome back!
As we begin our 38th year of organic gardening in Larkspur, many gardeners have already been to their gardens.
Park and Rec has received our garden renewals and is assigning new gardeners.
Please mark your calendar.
Workday and Potluck March 21, 2020. We gather as community for our season start-up.
We begin promptly at 9A.M. Please arrive a little early. Our meeting is important.
This is our opportunity to meet, greet, share and work side by side as we build community.
If you know that work or an unavoidable commitment will cause you to miss our Workday, let me know ASAP. I will give you an Alternative Task to accept and complete before March 14th. email me when you are done. Your participation is community in action.
Workday Agenda: (times are approximate).
9-10 A.M. General Meeting --Your attendance is expected. Bring your joys and concerns and garden gloves.
10-11:30 A.M. Community Garden Projects.
11:30 A.M. Potluck - Stay with us for a while. Meet other gardeners and enjoy community. 👫👬👭
We look forward to seeing you and plan to share this time and terrific food and fun with you.
Bring your favorite dish to share: appetizers, BBQ items, salads, drinks paper cups and napkins.
Four things to be completed before Workday 2020.
1- Weed garden and aisles. Implement your 2020 garden design plan, feed your soil with amendments and mulch deeply to suppress weeds. Ready for planting.
2- Complete all Alternative Tasks. Some gardeners have already finished.
3- Check and report any faucet leaks and any damage to hose posts and wooden borders.
4- Reconnect all drip and watering systems.
There is always something to improve in our garden community.
In the next few weeks we will be forwarding safety/security reminders for you to follow when in our community garden. These common sense series of actions are designed to help you strengthen garden awareness and encourage learning about your community.
This year our focus will again be to keep plants within our garden borders. Most of us like to plant alyssum, calendula, nasturtium, artichoke, zucchini, vines, roses, zinnias, geraniums, etc.. If they are too close to the garden’s edge they will grow over the border. They need to be kept inside your border. If needed, transplant them further into your garden so you won’t have to keep cutting them back just as they grow and start to look good. Give them a wide berth to grow. Both they and you will be happier.
Please watch for stinging nettle in your garden and aisles. Each Spring, It has come back three years in a row in the same areas.
It spreads by roots and seeds which can spread four feet in one season.
Always wear gloves,(so not to get stung), and carefully dig it out and remove it by its network of small roots. You will need to revisit the area in a few months for any re-emergence. This is an unpleasant weed and an unpleasant, but, necessary task.
I continue to thank all of you, our gardeners, for all you do to make our garden work so well and look so nice.
See you in the garden,
Stephen
-Next garden start-up Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 9A.M.
--------------------------------------------
Hello Gardeners,
Welcome back!
As we begin our 38th year of organic gardening in Larkspur, many gardeners have already been to their gardens.
Park and Rec has received our garden renewals and is assigning new gardeners.
Please mark your calendar.
Workday and Potluck March 21, 2020. We gather as community for our season start-up.
We begin promptly at 9A.M. Please arrive a little early. Our meeting is important.
This is our opportunity to meet, greet, share and work side by side as we build community.
If you know that work or an unavoidable commitment will cause you to miss our Workday, let me know ASAP. I will give you an Alternative Task to accept and complete before March 14th. email me when you are done. Your participation is community in action.
Workday Agenda: (times are approximate).
9-10 A.M. General Meeting --Your attendance is expected. Bring your joys and concerns and garden gloves.
10-11:30 A.M. Community Garden Projects.
11:30 A.M. Potluck - Stay with us for a while. Meet other gardeners and enjoy community. 👫👬👭
We look forward to seeing you and plan to share this time and terrific food and fun with you.
Bring your favorite dish to share: appetizers, BBQ items, salads, drinks paper cups and napkins.
Four things to be completed before Workday 2020.
1- Weed garden and aisles. Implement your 2020 garden design plan, feed your soil with amendments and mulch deeply to suppress weeds. Ready for planting.
2- Complete all Alternative Tasks. Some gardeners have already finished.
3- Check and report any faucet leaks and any damage to hose posts and wooden borders.
4- Reconnect all drip and watering systems.
There is always something to improve in our garden community.
In the next few weeks we will be forwarding safety/security reminders for you to follow when in our community garden. These common sense series of actions are designed to help you strengthen garden awareness and encourage learning about your community.
This year our focus will again be to keep plants within our garden borders. Most of us like to plant alyssum, calendula, nasturtium, artichoke, zucchini, vines, roses, zinnias, geraniums, etc.. If they are too close to the garden’s edge they will grow over the border. They need to be kept inside your border. If needed, transplant them further into your garden so you won’t have to keep cutting them back just as they grow and start to look good. Give them a wide berth to grow. Both they and you will be happier.
Please watch for stinging nettle in your garden and aisles. Each Spring, It has come back three years in a row in the same areas.
It spreads by roots and seeds which can spread four feet in one season.
Always wear gloves,(so not to get stung), and carefully dig it out and remove it by its network of small roots. You will need to revisit the area in a few months for any re-emergence. This is an unpleasant weed and an unpleasant, but, necessary task.
I continue to thank all of you, our gardeners, for all you do to make our garden work so well and look so nice.
See you in the garden,
Stephen
Visitors are welcome to tour the garden when there are garden members working.
Visitors are always invited to ask questions.
We ask only that you stay on the paths and not walk inside individual gardens, and of course, no picking.
Thank you.
In an Organic garden the soil is the foundation of a healthy eco system.
That is why Organic gardeners feed the soil and not the plant.
The soil then serves as the reservoir for water and the vital nutrients that the plant requires for growth.
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