South Winnipeg Garden Club

Just a reminder that today is the Annual SWGC Fall Picnic! It will be held at the gardens and we will be setting up at 12:30 p.m. with the picnic starting at 1:00 p.m. Anyone that can help with set-up, please come at 12:30.

Please bring:
- Lawn Chairs
- Food for the pot luck:
Members with names starting A to H please bring dessert,
Members with names I to Z, please bring a main course
- Plates, Cups and Cutlery Non recyclable – No paper or plastic
- Items for vegetable exchange
- Items for the raffle (Plants, magazines, arrangements)

SWGC will provide liquid refreshments.

Hope to see you at the SWGC Annual Fall Picnic.

Fall Bulbs Sales

Winnipeg
Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at St James Civic Centre, 2055 Ness Avenue (one day only)

Brandon
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Central Community Centre, 529 – 4th Street (off Victoria Avenue)

Dauphin
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at The Marketplace Mall

http://www.finegardening.com/design/articles/gardening-in-damp-shade.aspx

The second annual Farmers' Feast will be held Thursday September 16 from
6:30 PM at St Norbert Market.

Tickets are available for purchase now online, or through Food Matters Manitoba, as well as next week at Mise and Fresh Cafe (both located on Corydon). This event sold out last year so get your tickets early!

To find out more about this year's Farmers' Feast visit http://www.farmersfeastmanitoba.com/

Earlier we posted a notice that Samborski Garden Supplies' will begin a compost pick up to homes. However this effort seems to have been squashed by the province and members of the Whyte Ridge community.
To read the article visit the CBC website.

For all members of the SWGC who use email, Gene has once again sent out the very informative and wonderful Gardener's Forum newsletter. These helpful letters advise members of the opportunities and policies of the Garden Club.

Below I have copied some of the important details that Gene would like all members to remember:

IN GARDEN SHREDDING – The SWGC owns a shredder for shredding garden material. Last year many gardeners took advantage of shredding their garden material in their own gardens.
There are some benefits to doing this. These include:
1) You will not need to move material from your garden to the compost bins.
2) You will be returning your own garden material to your garden.
3) It is a good way to amend your soil.
Gene will be able to access the gardens as the gardens become accessible during the fall clean-up and will periodically be at the gardens with the shredder or if you would like him to come out during the day please send him an e-mail and he will make arrangements to be there. Please clean all soil from the roots.

COMPOST – Bin 1 has some compost available on a first come basis. It is a good time to amend your soil before fall tilling. It would be nice to be able to use up as much of compost as possible. We would like to move material from bin 3 (south bin) to bin 1 where we should have it as planned however we need to empty bin 1 first.

GARDEN MATERIAL FOR COMPOST BIN – Should you prefer to use the compost bins for your garden material, please use the south bin for now. Make sure there are no diseased plants (they go in the garbage) or soil on any garden material. We will advise you of any changes as they occur.

GARBAGE – Place your weeds, diseased plants, rhubarb leaves, etc in garbage bags!

Thanks again Evelyn for the great contribution to tbe blog!