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Gardening Kingston meeting September 14

Learn. Grow. Share.

This is the Gardening Kingston tagline. What does it mean to you? Come share your thoughts, grow your understanding about your club, and learn from your fellow gardeners. 

Come share your plants, and the products of your labour. Arrive early, 6:30 pm, to enter your items in the flower show. Take a look as to the categories, the tags are available at the meeting, but bring your own vases. Enter in as many categories as you want. The more entries, the better likelihood to earn a prize! Everyone present will be asked to vote during the evening, including tasting the kitchen goods.

Even if you are not entering items in the show, please arrive early on September 14th, the meeting will start promptly at 7:00 p.m. NOTICE this new time! Same location as in the spring: Holiday Inn Express Kingston West at 205 Resource Road.

Looking forward to learning and sharing with you!

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Utilities Kingston Water Wise Garden Tours

The Utilities Kingston Water Wise Garden is an award-winning garden and gives us an opportunity to learn how to save water, time, and money, by building a water wise garden that ‘makes every rain drop count’. It promotes messages on water conservation, organic gardening and compost, runoff pollution prevention, and more. 

Tours are typically 30 minutes. It’s a great way to spend time outside and learn how to garden sustainably. Activities and crafts for small children are offered after the tour is completed. 

If you are interested in taking a tour, please reach out to Eleanor at esimonetta@cityofkingston.ca to schedule a time or perhaps a recurring weekly slot for you and your group. 

The garden is located at 1211 John Counter Boulevard and more information can be found here: https://utilitieskingston.com/water/conservation/conservationgarden

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In-Person Meeting reminder: June 8, 2023 at 7:30pm

Come meet your fellow gardeners, representatives from gardening organizations in our area and also a few local businesses that can support your gardening activities. The Lemoine Point Native Plant Nursery, the Kingston Area Seed Systems Initiative, Glocca Mora Farms, Bear Root Gardens, Sticky Forks Apiary, and Urban Nature will outline their organization or business for a few minutes, and then you will be able to talk to them at their information table. During that time, you will also admire the entries for the flower show and vote for the “best in show” in each category!

On the other side of the room, you will be enticed to bid for lovely items donated for our silent auction (cash or cheque only). All proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Partners in Mission Foodbank. We have also arranged for a large bin to be brought to our meeting so that if you wish ,you could drop off a non-perishable item for the foodbank.

There will be treats, so skip dessert at home and join us for a fun evening!

One last thing: we can’t have a flower show if no one participates. Come as early as 6:30 PM to bring your contributions. See you there!

NEW LOCATION: HOLIDAY INN – KINGSTON WEST

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In-Person Meeting reminder: Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 7:30pm

Planting for Success

Presented by Mary Ann van Berlo

We have one chance to get our plants off to a good start – so planting them properly is highly important. Much research and observation have changed the recommendations for the planting of trees and shrubs as well as perennials. Mary Ann will tell us why root washing and root pruning are important steps to ensure the vigour and longevity of your transplant. She’ll also explain why staking and amending the soil in the transplant hole no longer recommended.

Also Member Flower Show.

New Location: Holiday Inn – Kingston West