It’s the best time of year to fully appreciate all of the hard work the Champlain community has put into their gardens. Thank you for sharing your gardening tips, your prized blooms, and all of the delicious fruits and veggies you’ve grown.
What are you growing this summer?
Poppies
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
Cut Flowers
Any tips you would like to share?
Just do it! You’ll be amazed at what may grow.
Kim Moran
What are you growing this summer?
We’ve got several plots in the Champlain College Community Garden dedicated to growing food for Feeding Chittenden as well as some three sisters’ plots in alliance with our Abenaki neighbors.
Any tips you would like to share?
The garden is a hidden gem on campus. Check it out, next to Rowell Annex (where our friends in Champ Support work). You can see more photos on the Center for Service & Sustainability instagram @champcss
Christina Erickson
What are you growing this summer?
Veggies, perennials, annuals…the usual. Annuals that don’t believe they are annuals!
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
My new “bank of misfit perennials”…similar to the island of misfit toys in the holiday classic Rudolph. Dahlia bulbs my mom gave me that she has cultivated for over 15 years (the same bulbs). I thought they were dead but she told me to “take them home and put them in soil”. I am having so much fun with these pink beauties and the sentimental value is priceless.
Any tips you would like to share?
Always trust the weather meterologist when it comes to initial spring planting. This year was funny late May and early June weather.
Linda Goodrum
What are you growing this summer?
Three varieties of garlic, two varieties of red onions, picking cucumbers, beets – all for pickling. The photo is our first batch of 213 East Street Bread & Butter pickles of the season (made this weekend). Many more jars to come!
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
Too many to list.
Any tips you would like to share?
Composted cow manure is the best!
Roland Palmer
What are you growing this summer?
Onions, shallots, cukes, big and little tomatoes, carrots, beets, and flowers! Also (not shown here), swiss chard, kale, radishes, peppers, watermelons, and purple beans.
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
I’ve never grown flowers before – I’ve always been all about the produce. But having some fresh flowers has been really nice!
Any tips you would like to share?
To be honest, I mostly garden the same way I cook – try stuff, see if it works out.
Sarah Camille Wilson
What are you growing this summer?
Flowering shurbs, perennials, and annual flowers.
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
Geranium Rozanne and panicle hydrangeas! And lady’s mantle.
Any tips you would like to share?
Don’t buy more plants than you have room for 🙂 For perennials and shrubs, make sure you give enough space for the mature size of the plant, even though the garden bed may look kind of empty. You can alwyas fill in with annuals until the perennials/shrubs reach their mature size.
Susan Paquette
What are you growing this summer?
Flowers that the bees like.
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
Hardy Hibiscus
Marita Martin
What are you growing this summer?
Herbs, tomatoes, kale, beans, catnip, and flowers.
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
Kale!
Maddie West
What are you growing this summer?
Perennials, fruits, and veggies!
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
A couple new varieties of peonies.
Any tips you would like to share?
Fall is the best time to plant peonies!
Erin Meenan
What are you growing this summer?
Flowers and some tomatoes for the first time!
What has been your favorite addition to your garden this year?
Yellow plum tomatoes.
Any tips you would like to share?
When planting Zinnias, sow generously! I was too particular in my placements and didn’t harvest many.
Ellen Emery
Some extra photos of the lovely gardens!
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