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Moss Vale Community Garden

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The Moss Vale Community Garden is a place where the community can gather to grow and share healthy food whilst developing supportive friendships.

21/10/2026

🌱 Leftover veggie seedlings looking for a good home!
Too busy to shop for plants, but you’d love to get your home food garden going this season? I’ve made up a box of 20 hand-picked plants, worth over $100, for just $50.

What’s in the box:
• 2 oregano (perennial herb)
• 2 capsicum, stocky red roasters
• 3 dwarf tomatoes, compact plants with normal-size fruit, good for pots or garden: Jade Beauty, Rosella Purple and Banksia Queen (medium beefsteak)
• 2 tomato, Orange Strawberry (vining, medium oxheart)
• 2 tomato, Elfie (vining, medium beefsteak)
• 2 tomato, Schimmeig Stoo (vining, medium-sized)
• 4 strawberry, Sweethearts (perennial)
• 2 yarrow (perennial, attracts beneficial insects)
• 1 French sorrel (perennial)
Pick up from the garden tomorrow (Thursday) 10am to 4pm, or by arrangement. Cash only, please.
Message us to reserve your box. Or reach out via our Contact form on our website https://www.mossvalecommunitygarden.org.au

11/10/2026

🌈 Thank you, Moss Vale!
After a rainy start, Saturday turned into a beautiful day in so many ways.
A huge thank you to everyone who came along and bought plants. There was a constant stream of customers and supporters all day. Every dollar goes straight back into the garden, helping us promote biodiversity through natural and food growing systems, run workshops, and build a thriving, inclusive community of gardeners.
Thank you also to:
🌱 Our volunteers, for their work in the lead-up, for setting up on the day and providing lunch, and for propagating an impressive lineup of seedlings and unusual fruiting and flowering plants
💳 The volunteers who stepped in like professionals on our new payment system
🗺️ Everyone who travelled far and wide to put up flyers around the Shire, and the businesses and organisations who displayed our posters
📸 Brad Mac, for the posts on the day (reposted here)
Congratulations to our raffle winners, Jenny C and Madeline B! Thank you all for your support.
♻️ Please return your pots and trays. They’re reusable, and returning them helps us reduce waste. Drop them near the entrance. Rinsing isn’t needed, but it’s appreciated.
🌻 If you missed out, or would like to join us, we garden on Mondays and Thursdays, 10am to 4pm, at Railway Street, Moss Vale (next to the tennis courts). Vegie seedlings are still available, three for $15 (cash only). Come for an hour or stay the day.

11/10/2026

Here are the lucky winners of our two raffle prizes at yesterday's Spring Plant Sale at the community garden.

First Prize:
Generously donated by Gubbins Mitre10 MV: An unusual 'Bird of Paradise' plant plus a YETI water bottle and garden hand tools & gloves.
Won by Jenny Costin.

Second Prize:
Generously donated by Carol Brown of Mrs Oldbucks Pantry: Set of two beautiful gift boxes of her famous preserves.
Won by Madeline Baker.

09/10/2026

🌱 It’s finally here. Our Mega Spring Sale starts 10am Saturday 10 October.
The tables are full, and the plant list is attached. A few highlights:
🍅 Tomatoes: cherries, Romas, beefsteaks and dwarf varieties, including Gilbertie Paste, Alberto’s Huge, Schimmeig Stoo, Sunrise Bumblebee and Black Cherry
🌶️ Capsicum, eggplant, zucchini, cucumbers and pumpkin
🍓 Berries: raspberries, boysenberry, marionberry, thornless blackberry, jostaberry, currants, Cape gooseberries and strawberries
🍇 Grapes, figs, greengage plum and elderberry
🥔 Yacon, Queensland arrowroot, turmeric, choko, rhubarb and daylilies
🧅 Elephant garlic, perennial leeks and spring onions
🌿 Herbs and edible ground covers
🌸 Flowers: hellebores, windflowers, native bluebells, hydrangeas, hibiscus, dahlia bulbs and more

Come early for the best choice, bring a box or tray for your plants, and stay for a chat with our volunteers. They’ll happily tell you what to plant now and how to look after it.

📅 Saturday 10 October, 10am–2pm
📍 Moss Vale Community Garden, Railway Street (next to the tennis courts)

09/10/2026

🌱 It’s finally here. Our Mega Spring Sale starts 10am Saturday 10 October.
The tables are full, and the plant list is attached.
A few highlights:
🍅 Tomatoes: cherries, Romas, beefsteaks and dwarf varieties, including Gilbertie Paste, Alberto’s Huge, Schimmeig Stoo, Sunrise Bumblebee and Black Cherry
🌶️ Capsicum, eggplant, zucchini, cucumbers and pumpkin
🍓 Berries: raspberries, boysenberry, marionberry, thornless blackberry, jostaberry, currants, Cape gooseberries and strawberries
🍇 Grapes, figs, greengage plum and elderberry
🥔 Yacon, Queensland arrowroot, turmeric, choko, rhubarb and daylilies
🧅 Elephant garlic, perennial leeks and spring onions
🌿 Herbs and edible ground covers
🌸 Flowers: hellebores, windflowers, native bluebells, hydrangeas, hibiscus, dahlia bulbs and more

Come early for the best choice, bring a box or tray for your plants, and stay for a chat with our volunteers. They’ll happily tell you what to plant now and how to look after it.

📅 Saturday 10 October, 10am–2pm
📍 Moss Vale Community Garden, Railway Street (next to the tennis courts)

06/10/2026

Where have all the honeybees gone? 🐝

Thank you John Swainston for raising this. If your garden has been strangely quiet this spring, you're not imagining it. Varroa mite is now established in NSW, and feral honeybee colonies, which did a lot of free pollination in our gardens, are likely to be declining as a result. Australian native bees aren't affected by Varroa, and plenty of other insects are still at work. In our brassicas, for example, it's hoverflies (we think the Common Halfband Hoverfly, Melangyna viridiceps, whose larvae also eat aphids; Australian Pollinator Week, can you confirm?). We leave some kale and broccoli to flower after the winter harvest for exactly this reason.

What to do this season
🌼 Nurture the pollinators you have. Pollinators require habitat that contains year-round food sources, breeding resources and nesting sites. The Wheen Bee Foundation's Powerful Pollinators planting guide for the Southern Highlands (listed as South Eastern Highlands: Southern Highlands, Bowral, Mittagong) is a great place to start: wheenbeefoundation.org.au/our-work/projects/powerful-pollinators
🍅 Give tomatoes, eggplants and capsicums a shake. Their flowers are self-fertile but rely on insect or wind vibration to release pollen. Run an electric toothbrush gently along the stake or trellis each morning.
🎃 Hand-pollinate zucchini and pumpkin. In the morning, pick a male flower (thin stalk, no tiny fruit behind it), strip off the petals, and dab the pollen onto the centre of a female flower (the one with a tiny fruit at its base).
🫘 Grow some crops that don't need pollinators. Beans are self-fertile, corn is wind-pollinated, and root and leaf crops like beetroot, carrots and leafy greens crop without pollination. Fruit trees, strawberries and seed crops like sunflowers and coriander all benefit from visitors.
🔍 Get to know your visitors. Spotting hoverflies, native bees and wasps on your flowers makes the "no bees" worry feel less bleak. The Australian Pollinator Count runs 7-15 November, and the Learner Guide at https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au/ will help you identify what you see.

Tell us in the comments: what's visiting your flowers this spring? 📸

05/10/2026

Come along and peruse our range of advanced tomato, capsicum, eggplant, basil, lettuce etc seedlings - all propagated from organically grown seeds (some saved from our own plants from last year) with our compost and worm castings.
Also a range of fruiting shrubs and berry canes - strawberries, figs, grapes, chokoes, yakon, edible groundcovers, rhubarb, flowers etc.
Gates open at 10am.
Cash and card facility available.
Come and say hello!

05/10/2026

🌱 Our babies have grown and are ready for your garden!
Get going on your summer vegetable crops at MVCG's annual MEGA SPRING SALE — Saturday 10 October, 10am–2pm.

Our volunteers have been busy potting up, watering and getting everything ready for the big day.
On the tables you'll find:
🍅 Heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable seedlings
🌿 Herbs and perennials
🫘 Fruiting shrubs and vines
🌾 Rhubarb and garlic
🌸 Daylilies and flowering perennials
🍯 Preservative-free preserves made from local fruit and veg

Support your local community garden and grab some quality seedlings and plants for your own patch — all proceeds go straight back into MVCG.

📅 Saturday 10 October, 10am–2pm
📍 Moss Vale Community Garden, Railway Street (next to the tennis courts)
See you there! 💚

04/10/2026

Hello friends, a bit of info about last Sunday. A “SEEDY SUNDAY “

Some of our garden members went on an excursion, we met in Buxton and visited two very different and interesting gardens.

Sylvia had the native bees and a hive that had been rescued from a nearby tree when it was being cut down. Then the bountiful permaculture block - including bananas of Lisa and Beau.

Moss Vale Community Garden brought along some heirloom tomato seedlings grown to share - which was wonderful. They were propagated from seeds that have been grown and saved by the network for many years. Some go back to the 90’s.

We shared seeds from the pool and BCG adopted Giant Russian Cucumber, to grow every year and save the seeds from first of the crop to share with the pool.

Jill Pickering brought along the seed ,aspirator from Robertson. It was fascinating to see, and you can even make your own - the plans are free to download from the internet.

It was very special to see the rescued wild bee hive and Lisa and Beau's farm - not to mention their friendly sheep!

An inspiring and interesting day 😊

Moss Vale Community Garden

01/10/2026

We are almost only a week out. Get your garden beds ready for spring planting. Our Mega Spring Sale is 10 Oct - gates open at 10am.

Address

Railway Street
Moss Vale, NSW
2577

Opening Hours

Monday	10:30am - 4pm
Thursday	10:30am - 4pm

Telephone

0414545735

Website

http://mossvalecommunitygarden.org.au/

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