Lewis Ginter Blog Moves to LewisGinter.org/blog

Please note that Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s Blog has moved! You can now find us at: LewisGinter.org/blog

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Community Kitchen Garden: United We Serve

Community Kitchen Garden: United We Serve
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer
We are getting close to our first harvest! According to Tom Brinda, Assistant Executive Director of Horticulture here at Lewis Ginter, the first of the summer squash are almost ready! They are quite small, but apparently they taste better when they are smaller. In some circles [...]

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Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More!

Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More!
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer
Do you know what I love about this volunteer gig? Every time I go to the garden I learn something new – this week was all about tomatoes (and yes, I say tom-ah-toe, not tom-ate-er).
Tom Brinda, Assistant Executive Director of Horticulture at Lewis Ginter asked [...]

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Community Kitchen Garden: Weeds and Bugs – Two Guaranteed Occurrences in Gardening!

by Janine Butler, garden volunteer
In last week’s blog, I commented on how well all the plants had been growing over the last couple of weeks.  Well guess what else has been growing?  Yep, WEEDS!  I spent a good hour or so on Saturday using a cool tool called a scuffle hoe – you move [...]

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Community Kitchen Garden: Look What’s Growing!

Community Kitchen Garden:  Look What’s Growing! by Janine Butler, garden volunteer What a difference a couple of weeks can make!  Look at these pictures that were taken this morning:
The squash seeds that we planted a couple of weeks ago are doing great.  I can’t believe that they could grow so big in such [...]

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When it Rains it Pours!

Did you see Sunday’s Times-Dispatch? Not only did they feature Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for how well we are using social media — but they also featured the butterflies (plus a slideshow)!  I’m so happy to be in such good company! And so honored to have made it to the front page.
Kudos to Bill Lohmann, [...]

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