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Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: Plans for Planting by Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden » Blog Archive » Community Kitchen Garden: Stinky Tomatoes and More Chores!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:36:36 +0000

[...] Back in spring we set ourselves a huge goal of growing 10,000 pounds of vegetables for the Central Virginia Foodbank. Right now we are around 8,200. Let’s all cross our fingers and hope that the cabbages, broccoli and greens get us to that goal. Wouldn’t that be awesome?! [...]

Comment on Timeless Design in a Sustainable World Symposium — The Charles F. Gillette Forum, Oct. 28-29 by lewisginter

lewisginter — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:11:10 +0000

Good News! Registration is now open! The Gillette Forum is going to be a wonderful event, featuring: Douglas Reed, ASLA, of Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc., Waterton, Massachusetts Thomas Woltz, ASLA, of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architecture Firm, Charlottesville, Virginia

Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More! by lewisginter

lewisginter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:59:43 +0000

John, Elizabeth from Horticulture has an answer for you:
Peppers don’t sucker the way that tomatoes do. However, she can always thin (remove some of) the baby peppers on her plants if she wants. As long as she has good fertile soil, she really shouldn’t need to worry about stressing the plant’s health by it having too many peppers. The only real negative effect of having a lot of them on the plant is that they might weigh the stems down to the ground. Thinning will probably give her fewer but larger sized peppers while leaving them all on the plant will give her more but smaller peppers.

Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: First Harvest! by Janine

Janine — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:48:53 +0000

Me too! Luckily the folks at the Foodbank are putting it to great use making meals for the various Feedmore programs in the area.

Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More! by lewisginter

lewisginter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:35:44 +0000

John, That is a good question! Let me check with our horticulture staff and get back to you!

Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: First Harvest! by Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:07:36 +0000

Wow, that squash would feed me for a year!

Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More! by john burch

john burch — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:49:01 +0000

I am a very novice gardener in Ontario and I do sucker my tomatoes later in their development. When there are flowers and some tomatoes showing and I think the plant is doing just fine I pull the small suckers that I can find to give the plant a rest.

This year I am trying peppers and I would like to know if there is a sucker type treatment for them. There seems to be too many little ones for the Mother.

Thanks JRB.

Comment on Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More! by Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:30:58 +0000

Looks like larvae of Colorado Potato beetle

http://www.ca.uky.edu/ENTOMOLOGY/entfacts/ef312.asp

Comment on Making a Home for Fairies at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden by lewisginter

lewisginter — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:00:29 +0000

Amanda, I’m not an expert, just a parent, and author of this blog. I would say, let the kids take the lead. Support them in anyway you can by asking questions, and helping them get natural materials to build with. Also, the kids have alot of fun “feeding” the fairies and offering them water in an acorn cap. The best part about fairy houses is there is no wrong way to do it!

Comment on Making a Home for Fairies at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden by Amanda McDaniel

Amanda McDaniel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:05:45 +0000

Ive just recently been loaned a book about your fairy houses and am very intrigued..I have a four year old son and am very much looking forward to building a fairy house of our own but would like a little more direction…any suggestions…thanks