If you are like a lot of gardeners, you might have a drawer or box filled with old seed packets. Some may be open, some never touched, and some you may not even remember where they came from. While many of those seeds may indeed still be viable, chances are most of them are not […]
How to Grow and Care for Sunflowers Garden by the Sea is giving away sunflower seeds this year as a way to show hope, strength and peace for our community. We are looking forward to seeing North Beach ablaze with yellow and orange sunflowers gracing our neighborhoods and storefronts come fall! It will take some time—from spring […]
Fall Gardening Newsletter The latest newsletter provides helpful hints on fall gardening and chores to get your yards/gardens in tip-top shape to ride out the colder weather. As well as show you how to build and use a cloche garden. The “hints” and” how-to” articles and “demonstration” videos in GBTS’ latest and past on-line newsletters will […]
Hooped Garden Plots – Cold Frames or Cloche Houses Thanks to the efforts of the North Beach Master Gardeners, our community garden has two beautiful new hooped garden plots. Sushila Ravard and Valorie Savisky, local master gardeners, worked tirelessly to add wind resistant covers on top of two of their four Demonstration Beds that have […]
The latest newsletter provides hints to keep your garden healthy throughout the growing season from keeping pests and plant diseases under control to soil enrichment. The “hints” and” how-to” articles and “demonstration” videos in GBTS’ latest and past on-line newsletters will help make a big difference in your garden! Past topics cover issues such as: […]
This delightful video by Master Gardeners Kathy Sandefur and Elizabeth Sims demonstrates how to plant seeds and starts in creative and inexpensive containers that can be found around the house or at thrift stores. Click here to go to GBTS’s Educational Video page: https://gardenbytheseaoceanshores.org/educational-videos/ Sharing these fun and easy ideas with children (of any age) […]