Food Donations!!

Hello Butler Gardeners,

As the 4th of July holiday is drawing near, many of you may be planning a trip out of town and will be having some extra produce to give up while you are away. Each year we take donations of our fresh grown produce to a local food bank in Trenton. Mercer Street Friends Food Bank loves the food we give them and appreciates our donations. Many of you may be aware that Trenton is suffering from a food crisis and could use as much of our healthy food as possible. Donations will be taken to the food bank on Friday, July 2nd. Please deliver any produce you wish to give away to my house, 214B Halsey Street by 12 noon. Thanks so much.

(For those of you already away or will be but wish to donate, contact me and I will be happy to pick a few items from your plot.)

Have a great 4th of July holiday!!

Nicole

Watering Next Week

Hey everyone,
I'm going on vacation starting next week for about 10 days and am worried my garden won't get enough water while I'm gone. We just got the plot a couple weeks ago, so the plants are mostly seedlings. If anyone is around next week and wouldn't mind giving our half-plot a spray I would really appreciate it! Of if you have a child who needs a job we could pay $20 for a watering every other day.
Plot is 9a.
Thanks!

Have some lettuce!

Hi Gardeners,

I will be out of town until July 6, and I have a ton of delicious lettuce ready to be picked. Please feel free to help yourself to as much as you want. If you feel inspired to give anything a little water while you're over there, my veggies and I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Kate Campbell

Bindweed Beware

I'm sure you've all noticed that our garden is great at cultivating weeds as well as vegetables. Most weeds are merely a nuisance, but some can pose serious problems. One such offender is the hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium). This invasive species is all over the fences both around the entire garden and between individual plots. You may have also seen it try to climb up your vegetables. Don't let it succeed.

Here's what we can do about it...

1. Hand weed hedge bindweed from your plot and try to get the rhizome right below the soil surface to prevent it from coming back.

2. These vines will be covered in pretty white flowers in the next few weeks. Pick off as many of these flowers as you can before they form seeds. Casually de-flowering this noxious weed will make a big difference in its prevalence in our garden.

Happy gardening!

-David Vinyard

Free Jade plant cuttings

Hey guys, I just seriously cut back my Jade plant and have a ton of cuttings available if anyone would like to grow them up. They're super easy to grow and almost impossible to kill. Just take the cutting, cut it so you only have a straight section (you'll understand when you see the cuttings), stick it in some soil, and let it go. I've found that three cuttings will make for a nice pot, but take as many as you'd like. I'll leave them in a box by the garden shed, so please help yourself.