Category Archives: Garden Tips

If you are watering, PLEASE remember to turn off both the spray nozzle AND the faucet.  We are using well water and need to conserve as much as possible. Every drip counts!!

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when trying to decide what to put on the compost piles: Avoid adding any plants that seem diseased.  Bring a trash bag and bag those plants, take the bag home and dispose in your own trash. Try not to add plants or vegetables with seedsContinue reading “End of Season Composting Tips”

Yesterday I posted a warning about planting tomatoes and other heat loving vegetables too early and suggested that planting after Memorial Day would be safe  Then I looked at the calendar and realized that Memorial Day is about a week early this year. Better to give you specific guidelines about the necessary conditions for success.Continue reading “More About Planting Tomatoes and Other Heat Loving Vegetables”

Dear Gardeners,  Last season we encouraged gardeners to plant flowers, for pollination and beauty’s sake.  Now, a study done in San Francisco’s community gardens and urban setting has shown that flower density has a significant impact on tomato yield.  I’m sure we can extrapolate to other vegetables. Even more surprising, neither the size of theContinue reading “Flower Density Improves Tomato Yield”

A message from Michael Michaud, CGFA’s Composting Expert… Composting is a process that is natural and works with or without any help from us. However, with just a small amount of assistance in the form of management and  a little hard work we are able to better utilize the benefits of this process more quickly and more frequently  than nature  usually provides. We’re an organic garden.  Most commercial fertilizers should NOT be used in anContinue reading “3 Step Composting Process at Wagon Hill Garden”

http://www.arthritissupplies.com/search.asp?keyword=garden+tools&sortby=0&page=1&catid= Gardeners,  My physical therapist sent me this link for a company, The Wright Stuff, that offers ergonomically designed gardening tools.  These have handles that are kinder to wrists and shoulders.  They also offer tools with extended handles that would be helpful in reaching across and cultivating the raised beds.  Hope you find this helpful.  Ellen

Gardens don’t wait on whim, or even on convenience. It’s a lesson new gardeners have to learn and experienced ones are reminded of every season. Gardens have to be tended And–their tending does not always conform to our schedules. Think of a garden a bit like a pet. It is a living, growing, changing organism.Continue reading “Gardens Don’t Wait On Whim”

Dear Gardeners, It’s been a slow, cool spring, which I do prefer to “sudden summer”. We get to enjoy the bulb flowers and bright green leaves and grass. Cool temperatures have delayed planting in the gardens at Wagon Hill for many gardeners. However, they have not delayed the growth of weeds! I was in theContinue reading “Getting Started At Wagon HIll”