Sointula Community Garden

05/05/2026

👩🏼‍🌾Soft Start Tuesday! We have Rhubarb, Lettuces, Icicle Radishes Spinach, kale & Herbs 🌿 10 am ~ till sold out 🙂

05/04/2026

⭐️👩🏼‍🌾⭐️ FIRST POP UP Garden Market of 2026 TOMORROW Tuesday 10~12!
Must Thin the Romain Patch & Harvest more Rhubarb! Herb Bundles will also be available!! ⭐️👩🏼‍🌾⭐️

05/02/2026

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️THANK YOU to EVERYONE who came out Today ! And to our AMAZING Volunteers! Our first FUNdraiser of the year was a HUGE Success Because of YOU !! 👩🏼‍🌾🚘💦 Garden market Season is Fast approaching 🫐🍎🥬

05/02/2026

🚘💎Beautiful day for a Carwash 💦🚗 !!
10-2 at the Community Gardens, Some fresh Rhubarb & Lettuces as well as LOTS of 💦Plant starts 👩🏼‍🌾⭐️

05/01/2026

⭐️🚗THIS Saturday!! 🚘 🧽
@ your Sointula Community Gardens !
Hope to see you & your Dirty vehicle! We keep our Water & Rags squeaky Clean ! 🧼 💦

04/24/2026

A Date to remember🙂

04/18/2026

Gardeners Anonymous 👩🏼‍🌾🥹

04/14/2026

04/08/2026

⭐️ International man of mystery Carl shiels, always lending a helping hand!
Thankyou Carl for coming to our rescue with your awesome tractor!
So much appreciate it & YOU ! The Sointula Community Gardens & members LOVE YOU 👩🏼‍🌾

04/08/2026

👩🏼‍🌾 Certainly worth a try !

Most gardeners plant squash alone and spend the summer fighting vine borers, powdery mildew, and squash bugs. The fix isn't spraying. It's planting a ring around the mound that handles all three. 🌿

This is the Three Sisters guild — corn, beans, and squash — with four additional companions that close the gaps the original trio leaves open.

Seven plants. Each one assigned to a specific threat.

Nasturtium at the mound edge acts as a trap crop. Squash bugs prefer nasturtium over zucchini and concentrate there first. Check the undersides of nasturtium leaves for bronze egg clusters and remove them.

Dill near the stems attracts the tiny parasitic wasps that target vine borer eggs before they hatch. Let it bolt — the flat yellow flower heads are the functional part.

Oregano at the base releases volatile oils that suppress powdery mildew spore germination at the leaf surface. Plant it early — this is prevention, not treatment.

Radish between the hills deters squash bugs through root compounds. Ready to harvest in about three weeks, well before the vines need the space.

Marigold ringing the outer border suppresses root-knot nematodes through root compounds and disrupts pest insects searching for squash by scent above ground.

Corn at the back gives the squash vines something to climb, lifting foliage off wet ground and improving airflow through the whole planting. Less surface humidity means less mildew.

Pole beans climbing the corn fix nitrogen through root nodules while the squash and corn are drawing it down. The beans produce fertilizer in real time while the other two crops use it.

Three threats. Seven plants. One mound. The ring does the work all season. 🌱

04/06/2026

Oooodles of various size white potted primula by donation 🌼 And still plenty of Tulips as well 🌷