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River Meadows Community Garden

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River Meadows Community Garden

Community Garden established in 2010 with a MN Ship grant. 44 10x15 plots, yearly leased plots @$30. Interested? Add your name to our waiting list 😀

07/27/2025

The gardens are lush with growth with the bountiful rains we have been having this season. Unlike the last 2 summers of drought, we can leave the watering cans in the shed!😀

Zucchini and summer squash are plentiful along with green beans. The first tomatoes are starting to ripen and the cherry tomatoes are quickly coming to ripen. I popped out the garlic today and was a bit disappointed on size. Prior years the bulbs were larger… oh well!

We love to plant flowers in hope for pollinators and butterflies to visit. 🌺. I did spot a Yellow swallowtail floating along the flowers, Joy!

06/22/2025

You know it’s HOT when you can see the plants grow each day! This is corn growing weather and the gardens love it as well😎. It was a bit warm this AM but I needed to pull the last Kohlrabi and take the spinach out to throw in some cantaloupe. Pulled out a few shallots which is a first planting for me. I took a walk around and checked out the Tree Swallow house and was pleasantly surprised to see a couple wee ones in the house…. It needs to cool off for them!

06/15/2025

The gardens have taken off ! 😎 Despite the cooler weather for June, we have been blessed with a couple nice soaking rains. The cold crops are ready to harvest - Kohlrabi, lettuce, radishes, and a 2nd cut of Spinach. Everything is growing well and the potatoes have started to blossom along with the sugar peas. Cross fingers the potato bugs stay away as they were horrible last year!

04/14/2025

The 2025 garden season has begun. ❤️ It was a beautiful day to turn the plot over. Lettuce, Spinach, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Onions and Shallots will be going in this week. The garlic is up and looking great. Let the dirt dig-gin begin! 😀

03/14/2025

Spring is in the air! Time to start planning out the garden for the season. 😀 All available plots have been filled for 2025. We have 4 new gardeners joining our “diggin in the dirt” crew🌺

03/01/2025

Yes… it will come! It’s time to look ahead to “diggin” in the dirt. We have a couple garden plots open for the 2025 season. Email: [email protected] for more information.

08/25/2024

BLIGHT! After 4 pickings of cukies my cucumber plant has now become a victim. Lots of flowers and still putting on fruit so we will see how long the plant will produce. These are English cucumbers mainly for snacking and on yummy salads, not for pickling. 😀.

Dug up a few carrots today and spotted a ground squirrel hole. He’s been running thru the gardens and snacking on tomatoes.
There have been other holes so I am sure he has a great tunnel system going 🤨.

08/18/2024

Tomato time is here, YAY! There is nothing better than a fresh, vine ripen tomato ❤️. The string beans are doing a 2nd blossoming from the recent rains and if you planted your cukes later, they are thriving with this weather and rain. Lots of pretty flowers in bloom but a rare butterfly is seen. I have not found any Monarch caterpillars on the abundant Milkweed 😔

07/21/2024

Where did July go.. it’s almost done with and the gardens are finally seeing some hot humid weather after our cool and wet June. The faucet pretty much shut off and now we are needing a good rain😎

The garlic, beets, sugar snap peas, string beans have all been harvested along with a couple cabbage. Slow to come are the cherry tomatoes and yes, the zucchini are coming in like crazy!

06/16/2024

The gardens are popping with growth with all this rain we have had… and so are the weeds! It’s pretty soggy after 3 inches of rain in the last couple days. Pulled out a couple kohlrabi which were planted early but had a couple issues due to a snacking rabbit and snacking bugs🤨
2nd picking of snow peas, such a great snack just by themselves. 😀
The garlic is sending out their scapes - seed pod. Removing these will put more energy into making the bulb larger. Don’t throw them away, chop them up and throw into your dishes or a sauté of veggies. You can even grind up and make a pesto with them, YUM!

05/11/2024

It’s Tomato time! Mothers’s Day weekend is the planting date for putting your tomatoes in. Generally we are frost free by that date..no worries this year. It has been a pretty normal Spring with good rains but we could do without the crazy winds!

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