The Parkallen Community Garden

hi all

With the sunshine and warm temperatures it feels like spring and gardening season is just around the corner. Time to start thinking of what goodies to grow this year.

Edmonton’s Seedy Sunday is March 24, 2024
11:00 am to 4:00pm

​Alberta Avenue Hall 9210 118 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB

http://www.edmontonseedysunday.org/

This is a great chance to meet other gardeners and acquire nifty seeds.

It will still be a while before its time to planting, but not to early to start planning and dreaming., and maybe starting some seedlings!

Keep on Digging!

HI Parkallen Community Gardeners!

The garden has sure grown a lot in the last 2 weeks. Please take some time to enjoy the abundance!

Abundant Apples and Flowers Galore!

Help yourself to some fresh flowers. Apples are almost ready

Kale and collards

a sharp eyed forager will also find some peas to enjoy

Baby Potatoes in the north west patch should be ready for some selective harvest. please put the tops into the east most compost bin and be gentle with the asparagus. They look to be thriving, but won’t be ready until at least spring 2025

June 2023 garden work bees schedule.

Weather and air quality dependent of course. If its dangerous or really unpleasant to be working outside: Don’t

Are you interested in hosting a garden bee? The role is basically to welcome people to the garden and provide a little orientation. Please let me know at brent.flesher@gmail.com

One of the things that make The Parkallen Community Garden so special is its open and shared gardening concept as compared to the assigned individual plots of other community gardens. For 2023 we are extending that model by having a “plot captain” for each plot.

The idea is that the Plot Captain guides the theme for each plot. The planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting is of course still shared.

Parkallen Community Garden Spring 2023

HI All!

My name is Brent Flesher. I am excited to take on the role of garden director for 2023. I’d like to continue the excellent work of the past and help grow the garden as a community resource.

2023 will see more workshops for things like stepping stones, fairy doors, fermentation and preserving capped off with a community garden harvest potluck feast in the fall.

Sunday April 23, 2023 1 – 4 pm

• Compost bee:
  • Turn new compost
  • Top dress garden plots with finished compost
• Tree pruning: time to give the trees a little trim to grow nice and fruit at convenient heights.

Bring a picnic and a blanket to the Parkallen Community Garden on June 15, 1 p.m.

Rink Mural Part II Workshop at 2 p.m.  in the Parkallen Community Hall

Garden Days is Canada’s largest garden party, a celebration of the vital role of gardening in our communities and lives. It begins on National Garden Day, Saturday June 15th, 2019 and continues for nine days. Promoted by the Canadian Garden Council, Garden Days encourages local gardens, garden centers, horticulture societies, garden clubs and others to create special reasons for people to visit a garden. Last year, there were hundreds of activities across the country!

This year, we’re jumping on the bandwagon! Please join us on Saturday, June 15th at 1pm to celebrate National Garden Day in the Parkallen Community Garden. Bring a picnic and blanket to enjoy the good company of neighbours, new and seasoned gardening enthusiasts alike. We invite you to enjoy a glass of lemonade and tour the community garden to learn and share in your knowledge and passion for gardens and gardening.

Tools will be available for those that want to pull a weed or water some tender shoots as our garden landscape will just be getting exciting. Pick up a garden brochure or chat with a community garden member to learn how you can be involved!

For our little people (and those like me that just love a good story), we’ll also have a big basket of garden story books available. There’s nothing like laying back on a picnic blanket in the shade with grass between your toes, while you listen to the Tale of Peter Rabbit and other literary delights.

Looking to leave a permanent fingerprint? The rink mural is being extended to the south side of the rink to become a backdrop for the garden. A workshop to create the initial drawings will be hosted in the community hall at 2pm. Come and add your art to the garden!

See you there!

— Sara Wipperman

Gardeners, there are two planting bees schedule on May Long Weekend, the traditional “get your garden in” weekend in Edmonton, when we consider “all danger of frost to have past.”

Help seed the garden
Saturday May 18, 2-4 p.m.
and/or
Sunday May 19, 2-4 p.m.

If you can’t make either date, you’re still welcome to tend and harvest the PCG throughout the 2019 garden season.

TWO GARDEN MEETINGS

Afternoon of Saturday April 27^th

Come celebrate and support our garden

Gardener Welcoming Gathering with Snacks

Time: 2-3 p.m.

at the garden south side of the rink

To welcome all those who think they may be interested in helping plant and/or maintain the garden this year and talk about our garden plans, and introduce newcomers to our garden.

Annual General  Meeting 3-4 p.m.

Time: 3-4 p.m.

at the Garden OR the location will be posted on the garden shed

Come to listen or join in on a discussion on how our garden is operated.   We will be reviewing garden roles, how we communicate, projects and programs opportunities. 

At the Community Hall