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Welcome to the February Growing Together Baw Baw Community Gardens Newsletter.
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Your Garden for February Summer is here and that means time to give your plants a good feed with 'seasol' or equivalent to help them along and mulch to ready for the next bout of heat. Lettuce, beans, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, capsicum and tomatoes are ready for picking at your local community garden.
For your garden get broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, leeks, onions, cabbage seeds started in seed trays (remembering to keep them moist) ready for planting out in 4-6 weeks. Plant seeds/seedlings out now beetroot, carrot, chives, lettuce, kohl rabi, parsley, radish, spring onions, silverbeet, turnips. Your tomatoes will need a really good feed and mulch if you want a bumper crop
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| Eastern Park Community Garden
Community Working Bee's held every
TUESDAY 9.30 -- 4.30 and
1st SATURDAY of every month 9.30-2.30
Enter via Cambridge Drive, Warragul
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Working Bee and Produce swap This SATURDAY FEB 4th from 10am to 3pm. Come and visit Warragul's Eastern Park Community Garden, help with planting, propagation, weeding, watering. Peruse the produce, plant and seed swap table.
FREE BBQ lunch provided and lots of fun to be had.
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HELP WANTED! Warragul Community Garden are looking for an accountant or book-keeper to audit our accounts now that we are incorporated. If you or someone you know can lend a hand please contact us for further information
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| Trafalgar Community garden Community Days every Wednesday
9.30 -- 11am
We also meet the occasional Saturdays for great workshops
Wellington St, behind the Public Hall
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| Longwarry Community Garden and Orchard
Community Days held WEDNESDAY 5 -- 7pm during daylight savings and
2nd SATURDAY of every month 12 -- 2.30
Next door to the Public Hall
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Jindivik Community Garden Join the community gardeners to keep this serene and productive landscape looking its best.
Wander down next time you see us there or contact Graham: g_duell@bigpond.com | Drouin Primary School Drouin Primary School Garden thrives on involvement with the children, parents, and teachers volunteer your time, expertise, seeds or seedlings.
Contact the school on 5625 1666
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School Garden Program Join other gardening enthusiasts & work with horticultural students at Warragul Regional College. Help them propagate, prune, grow-on plants, work in the orchard and aquaponics gardens etc. Light lunch included. Contact WRC 5623 9900 | Nilma Primary School
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
A sustainable and inspiring garden within the school grounds. Students are involved in maintaining the gardens, planting and harvesting, cooking with the produce. Volunteers needed to work in the garden Thursdays, contact the school on 56232963
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WANTED: Your ideas for workshops We are putting together our workshop program for 2017, so if you have a great idea or have always wanted to learn more about something garden or plant related let us know and we will add it to the list.
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West Gippsland Beekeepers Learn all about keeping bees. Meets the 4th Wednesday of every month at the YFC building, 22 Normanby St, Warragul from 7pm, gold coin donation
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West Gippsland Permaculture Group Meets at the YFC building, 22 Normanby St, Warragul (or Eastern Park Community Garden during summer), on the first Wednesday of each month 7.30pm, Gold coin donation
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Gardening & Sustainability @ Warragul Community House
Garden Chats and Visits
A gathering of people who enjoy gardening (no experience necessary). Share interests and ideas. Includes visits to local gardens and nurseries. Last Tuesday mornings of the month. Free
More info via the House 5623 6032
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We hope you enjoyed this months E newsletter, if you have any queries or items that you would like included in next months newsletter please contact us via our web site or at treedin@iinet.net.au.
All the best from Donna and the team at Growing Together Baw Baw Community Gardens
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