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Garden diary 2022
first planting bee, March 16
Farmer's almanac planting calendar for Toronto
edible weeds found in the park's naturalized gardens
Note from Skylar to the 2022 garden volunteers
“Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.”- Albert Einstein
Dear All:
Just a note to thank everyone for being a member of the 2022 Dufferin Grove Park Garden Co-op, and for volunteering in the DGP vegetable/herb/flower new circle gardens for a second year. The gardens would not have been as successful without your commitment and hard work. There were even fewer garden volunteer participants than last year, but those who came accomplished so much.
Many thanks to the City of Toronto Parks & Recreation staff for providing wood chips again, for water service, and for the continued support throughout the 2022 gardening season. And, for keeping the Field House bathrooms open and clean.
Also, a very big thank you to all those neighbors and Micheli's Garden Centre at the Dufferin Mall, who gave the Garden Co-op many vegetable seedlings and pollinator wild and native plants. The Garden Co-op achieved amazing results, with no budget, based upon the kindness and generosity of our neighborhood community.
The DGP Garden Co-op volunteers began planting seeds in April and we were still harvesting wild arugula, chives, kale, carrots, parsley, and nasturtiums well into November.
Again this year, many park users stopped by to admire and tell us that the circle garden was very beautiful and an important park feature. This year the sunflowers seeded themselves all around the circle garden which brought many yellow finches and a wide variety of bees. At the end of the garden season we collected native and pollinator seeds to spread around the park next year. Again, one of the Co-op gardening session highlights was harvesting stinging nettles, and making stinging nettle soup.
Our very successful and beautiful 2022 garden session is over. The 2023 garden session will begin during March & April 2023 with cleaning up the beds, spreading compost, planting early vegetables: carrots, kale, beets, radishes, peas, collards, celery, and parsley.
See you all in March 2023.
Skylar,
Co-ordinator
DGP Garden Co-op Volunteers
June 2, 2022, a note from Skylar to garden volunteers
Hi All: Thank you very much for showing interest in volunteering with the Dufferin Grove Park Garden Co-op. Thank you for your patience. We had hoped to begin the gardening season in early April. However, this gardening season has been delayed while we wait for the City of Toronto Parks, Forests & Recreation department to grant official permission to begin the gardening sessions. We hope to begin the DGP garden sessions soon.
March 18, from Skylar:
First DGP garden session will be soon. Need a few dry days to get rid of the muddy ground conditions. First garden session: picking up all the rubbish from the Nettle Garden and cutting down all the dead stalks (?) in the Nettle Garden -- basically cleaning it up so the spring flowers can show all their beauty. I am very excited about what the spring (flowers) woodland will look like in the Nettle Garden after we transplanted as many bulbs as we could find last year before the construction zone was erected.
March 16, 2022
Seed planting in containers: 8 people planted many little pots, with broccoli, kale, collards, cauliflower, many different varieties of tomatoes, and basil.