Grafton Community Garden

05/09/2024

The Grafton Garden Club Plant Sale and Raffle is Saturday, May 11, 2024, from 9am to 1pm on the Grafton Common.
The Plant Sale includes annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, butterfly and pollinator plants, house plants, and a special table for native plants. There is also a bake table and the ever-popular raffle table.
This year, the raffle table has over 25 items! Some of the items up for grabs include gift cards and certificates from: Bemis Farms Nursery (Make a Planter, Make a Memory workshop), Goretti Supermarkets (two $25 cards), Logee’s Plants for Home & Garden ($50), New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill (four general admission tickets), Nothing Bundt Cakes (a Bundt cake and a certificate for a box of buntinis), Truth Organic Spa (1-hour Swedish massage with Happy Feet), Walmart ($50), Wegmans ($150), WooSox (four tickets, general admission), YMCA (three-month family membership), Yummy Mummy Bakery ($15). Other items on the raffle table include: items from Buy Nothing Grafton (a 23” by 26” framed floral picture with a jigsaw puzzle), Koopman Lumber Company (railing planter filled with potting mix, African Violet plant food, Jiffy ports, a watering can, gardening gloves, Sun Sticks, seed & sprout gardening set, a sun hat, and other things), St Joseph’s Abby in Spencer (a case of assorted Trappist Jelly), The Saddle Shed (a Breyer Horse statue), Trader Joe’s (Greatest Hits shopping bag of snacks), and many more from Grafton Garden Club members.
Stop by the Grafton Common and support the Grafton Garden Club. Money raised in this Plant Sale and Raffle, the major fundraising event of the year, provides the scholarships and grants that the Grafton Garden Club provides to Grafton students and teachers. Get a free raffle ticket just for stopping by and mentioning where you saw this notice.

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03/22/2024

Garden Time is Coming

With March coming in like a lamb, it won’t be long before we can plant our tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. The Lee Knowlton Community Garden, under the auspices of the Grafton Garden Club, Inc., is accepting applications now from Grafton residents who would like to reserve their own garden plot (20’ x 20’). The one-time-only membership fee is $20. The yearly rental for one plot is $20. Located off Estabrook Road, each plot is large enough for a substantial garden. The entire garden is fenced to keep garden predators like deer out. Your responsibility is to gently turn over the soil as soon as the soil has sufficiently dried out. On April 20, 2024, the Community Garden will open for a general cleaning and preparation for the planting season.
On May 11, 2024, you can purchase all your gardening needs at the Grafton Plant Sale and Raffle on the Common, from 9 am to 1 pm. You’ll be able to buy veggies, annual flowers for Memorial Day, plus perennials, herbs. This year, they are also selling plants which have been specifically selected to attract butterflies and other pollinators to your yard. There is a free planting activity for children. The raffle table is again full of garden-related items from area businesses and residents, such as a Trader Joe’s Greatest Hits Bag of Snacks, a garden-related group of products from Koopman Lumber Company, WooSox tickets for four to a game at Polar Park, the ever-popular hand-made bench, and gift certificates from Bemis Farms Nursery for a workshop for 2, Goretti Supermarkets, Logee’s Plants for Home & Garden, Nothing Bundt Cakes, WalMart, YMCA – Boroughts Branch, and Yummy Mummy Bakery. Monies raised at the Plant Sale and Raffle provide scholarships to Grafton students and grants to Grafton Public School teachers.
In May, after the threat of frost has past, you can plant vegetables, herbs, flowers, and/or berries at the Grafton Community Garden. Your tender plants will need to be watered and weeded, once or twice each week depending upon the weather. You will need to supply your own tools and water.
To sign up and get a plot, go to the Grafton Garden Club website at www.graftongardenclub.org. Click the link for Grafton Community Garden and go to Applications are now available. Read the Membership Rules and print out and fill out the Liability Waiver Agreement and Membership Application Forms and mail them and your check to the Grafton Garden Club, PO Box 453, Grafton, MA 01519. If you have any questions, you can call Dick Kirejczyk, Manager of the Community Garden, at 508-839-4867, or send an email to [email protected].
The Community Garden was established to promote and support horticulture for the residents of Grafton. The Grafton Garden Club encourages the local production of food and promotes the educational benefits of agriculture.
The Grafton Garden Club, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization which welcomes new members to any of their meetings and events. Consult their website for more information or to join: www.graftongardenclub.org.
The Grafton Garden Club: Where Gardeners Grow.

09/10/2023

Bemis Farms in Spencer is offering workshops this fall. One of them is to make this Scarecrows for Solutions. Once you sign up and make the scarecrow, you can pick the non-profit organization that you want to benefit. The Grafton Garden Club should be on that list.
We hope to see these all around town. If you do go to make one, please Direct Message me with your address (if you want) and we'll be driving around town to see them! We may take some pictures for an article for the local newspapers. (So let us know if you are interested in that, too.)'If you pre-register, you save $5 off the walk-in price (and you get to specify the date you want to go down there).
If you pre-register, you save $5 off the walk-in price (and you get to specify the date you want to go down there).
Thank you and even if you don't specify us for the donation, we hope you enjoy this (or any other) workshop! Tina and the whole Bemis Farms crew donate plants for the Grafton Garden Club Plant Sale and Raffle each year and they come up with these fundraisers occasionally.

04/10/2023

With March going out like a lamb, it won’t be long before we can plant our tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. The Lee Knowlton Community Garden, under the auspices of the Grafton Garden Club, Inc., is accepting applications now from Grafton residents who would like to reserve their own garden plot (20’ x 20’). The yearly rental for one plot is $20. Located off Estabrook Road, each 400 square foot plot is large enough for a substantial garden. The entire garden is fenced to keep garden predators like deer out. Your responsibility is to gently turn over the soil, as soon as the soil has sufficiently dried out. On April 22, 2023, the Grafton Community Garden will open for a general cleaning and preparation for the planting season.

On Saturday, May 13, 2023, the Grafton Garden Club invites everyone to purchase all your gardening needs at the Grafton Garden Club Plant Sale and Raffle on the Common, from 9 am to 1 pm. You’ll be able to buy veggies, annual flowers in time for Mother’s Day and Memorial Day, plus perennials, herbs, and so much more. There will be a free planting activity for children. Monies raised provide scholarships and grants to Grafton students and teachers.

In May, after the threat of frost has passed, you can plant vegetables, herbs, flowers, and/or berries at the Community Garden. Your tender plants will need to be watered and weeded, once or twice each week depending upon the weather. You will need to supply your own tools and water.

To sign up and get a plot, go to the Grafton Garden Club website at www.graftongardenclub.org . Click the Community Garden link and go to Apply. Fill out the forms and mail them and your check to the Grafton Garden Club, P.O. Box 453, Grafton, MA 01519. If you have any questions, you can call Dick Kirejczyk, Manager of the Community Garden, at 508-839-4867, or send an email to [email protected]. The Grafton Community Garden, what will you grow?

The Grafton Community Garden was established to promote and support local horticulture for the residents of Grafton. The Grafton Garden Club encourages the local production of food and promotes the educational benefits of agriculture.

The Grafton Garden Club, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization which welcomes new members to any of our meetings and events. Consult our website to join. www.graftongardenclub.org. The Grafton Garden Club: Where Gardeners Grow.

Grafton Garden Club

09/13/2010

http://thefarmersdaughterauburn.com/StephanieSays.aspx

The Weather men are predicting a very HOT week this week, with little or no rain in the forecast.. Your flower and vegatable gardens are going to need some extra watering.

09/13/2010

http://www.westonnurseries.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.main/index.htm

With this fantastic Plant Library of over 1,400 plants, you can search for plants in multiple ways and easily get reliable information and photos of the plants in our 2008 Catalog.

09/13/2010

https://www.westonnurseries.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/articles.main/index.htm

Wayne Mezitt is a regular contributor to publications including Metrowest Daily News and Yankee Magazine. He has written articles for Newton Magazine, People, Places & Plants magazine, and is the horticultural consultant for GrowingWisdom.com.

03/13/2010

The Grafton Community Garden will meet with the Grafton Board of Selectment on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:30pm. All interested parties are invited to attend