Author: Karen Young

How to Grow and Care for Sunflowers

🌻 🌻 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 to fall—but […]
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Fall Gardening Newsletter

Getting your Garden in Shape for Winter: 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 […]
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Hooped Garden Plots – Cold Frames or Cloche Houses

The Garden has a New Addition! 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 been in Garden […]
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Summer Gardening Newsletter

Dirty Hands – Happy Plants! 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 […]
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Gardening With Old & Everyday Containers

Gardening with Containers and Having Fun with Children of Any Age: 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/ […]
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2021 Community Garden Opening

Come Grow With Us: The 2021 Garden by the Sea growing season officially opens Saturday March 20.  Come be part of the community garden and enjoy the countless benefits that it brings: fresh grown produce, exercise and fresh air, new friendships, and a place to relax and be restored without leaving town.  All with the […]
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