Helen A. Dean Community Garden

07/12/2017

Check out this great article about the garden and the work our intern, Abbey Keller is doing this summer!

Jacksonville, Ill. - Two Illinois College students are among those devoting the break in classes to community service-based internships.

06/15/2017

Our butterfly milk w**d is blooming beautifully in the garden!

05/29/2017

Today, we support our military and our first responders, those we have in our lives, and those we have lost. We support their spouses and children, and everything they do to defend our country, our freedom, and our lives. God Bless America and Have a Blessed Memorial Day.

05/28/2017

One potato, two potato, three potato four. Very excited for the day I can pull these up to see how many we get! Each plant care produce anywhere from 5 to 10 potatoes and of course each one of them will go to the Jacksonville Food Center, stay tuned for progress updates!

05/21/2017

These apples still have quite a bit of growing up to do...

05/18/2017

Thanks to HI 262 for helping clear w**ds from the beds a few weeks ago to get us ready for the growing season!
We also found this massive, mutant dandelion... Beware!

05/09/2017

Our native plants that we planted last year are doing great!

08/25/2016

We are now an official Monarch Waystation! Learn more about the program and consider making your native plant space a waystation at http://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/index.html.

08/11/2016

Squash Borers can devastate a garden. Thankfully, we haven't lost any plants to them yet, but it's only a matter of time. The eggs are laid on the backs of the leaves of squash, zucchini, and pumpkin plants. The larvae are what destroy the plant. They can eat their way through a squash vine like the Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar. *The damaged plant below is not from our garden, however we do have some plants that look similar.

08/04/2016

The native plants are paying off. We had a beautiful visitor today!

07/29/2016

It's hard to believe, but these tomatoes came from the same plant!