AmeriCorps Earth Day Work Party

Join the AmeriCorps team from Ossining Open Door as they help prepare our garden for the 2012 gardening season.

Time: 1:00 – 3:00pm

Location: Ossining Organic Community Garden

Wear sturdy clothes & gardening gloves.  Bring shovels or gardening tools if you have them.

10 Steps for Successful Vegetable Gardening

http://extension.unh.edu/resources/representation/Resource000597_Rep619.pdf

Gardening Class

Westchester Community Gardening Workshop - Part 2
Co-facilitated by Master Gardeners Pamela Davis and Donna Sharrett

When: Monday, April 30th at 5pm-6:30pm
Where: Cornell Cooperative Extension/Westchester,
            26 Legion Drive Valhalla 10595
Cost: $10

· Successful community gardening - problem solving
· Environmentally friendly pest & disease control

· Harvesting
· hands on demonstration of soil pH testing (bring your garden soil sample to be tested)  · Soil pH test kits will be available for purchase for $15 each (cash or check) 

For more information or to register contact:JoAnn DiRico Trautmann: jdt34@cornell.edu  
For driving directions: www.cce.cornell.edu

Inspiration from 2011

Starting Seeds

Everything you need to know about starting seeds:
http://www.seedlibrary.org/wp/category/seed-starting-101/

Companion Planting

Great link sent from the Green Community Garden of Hope/Ossining:
http://www.gardensablaze.com/Companions/CompanionYield.htm
(With links for companion planting to ATTRACT beneficial insects & companion planting to REPEL pests.)
Info about GCGH: http://gcgh.weebly.com/

Cornell Vegetable Growing Guides

http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/scene0391.html
Keep in mind that only organic practices are allowed in our garden. Do not use any non-organic recommendations, if given.