Diamond Bar Community Garden

05/11/2020

This would be so cool to have at our Diamond Bar Community Garden. It be a place to share our gardening books.

When the coronavirus emerged in the U.S., people who share books on a small-scale, the stewards of little free libraries, saw a new need. Adding food and other supplies suddenly transformed many of their tiny library boxes into pantries. Now anyone who has a "sharing box" can add their location to a...

02/29/2020

Evan Thomas Eagle Scout Project contributing to the improvement to the Pollinators Garden. Great job and a Big Thank You!

02/29/2020

We would like to give a Shout Out to Evan Thomas for his contribution to our Pollinator's Garden. Evan chose our site for his Eagle Scout Project. Thank you Evan!

10/24/2019

Diamond Bar Community Garden class tomorrow is at 9:00 am with Guest Speaker Robin Smith discussing Native Plants and Invasive Plants. *** Please note the time class time starts at 9 am, not 10.

10/22/2019

Come learn about our CA Natives and the Invasive Species that threatens them.

09/05/2019

Fall Gardening Series starts Friday. Because of the heat we meet a little earlier (9 am).

04/11/2019

DB Community Garden's last class in our Spring Gardening Series - Tomorrow (Friday, April 12 at 10am - 11:30am). Come learn how to help your plants in your garden deal with the extreme heat we get here in Diamond Bar. The tendency is to just water more, but is that really the answer? Some plants fair better than others when temperatures soar. For example, we here have a tough time growing the big steak tomatoes, but the small cherry tomatoes do better; ever wonder why (if you guess that heat might be a contributing factor, you're right).

And speaking of tomato plants, ever notice around 3 or 4 pm the plant is wilting and looks like it is in desperate need of water? It might, but it might not. Before you panic and run for the hose, put your finger or a soil moisture probe in the soil and check if the soil is dry or has enough moisture (just because the top 2" is dry, doesn't mean the plant needs water - you got to check the root zone). Plants sometimes take a break from the heat. I call it taking a seista; just like us, when we get over heated our bodies start to shut down. Well the plants are doing the same thing; its a way of coping - after all they don't have the luxury of getting up and moving to a shady spot to cool themselves down.

This is just one example of part of our topic tomorrow. Learning which plants are more sensitive to the heat, how to maybe pick plant varieties that are more heat tolerant, what is going on in the plants physiology when the heat is turned up and more.

We will discuss some techniques that you can incorporate into your summer gardens that will help you reach a successfully gardening experience.

04/02/2019

This information goes along with this Friday's Garden Lesson (Gardening with CA Natives).

  Grasses, mostly perennial clumping varieties, have made an impressive debut onto the modern landscape scene. We have recently seen garden grasses featured in books and articles, planted in “meadows,” “grasslands,” and as “accents,” bringing “movement” and “drama” to the landsc...

04/02/2019

GUEST SPEAKER this Friday to speak & educate us about growing CA Natives in our area. It will be a great class, you don't want to miss this one.

03/30/2019

Free Gardening Class this Friday (April 5) from 10 - 11:30. Come learn to garden with our California Natives. We will also squeeze in April's Gardening Tips.

03/27/2019

GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES.
This weeks Community Garden Lesson is on growing in containers & vertical growing.

Whether you live in an apartment or other situation that is limiting your garden - learn how using containers and growing 'Up' can be your solution.

Spatially challenged and think you can't garden? Think again! These small-space gardening ideas will get you growing your own delicious and nutritious food in no time!