MESSAGE from the PRESIDENT
Hello all,
I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season and are kicking off the new year with lots of planning for your 2025 gardening season. Whether you are planning a vegetable garden, flower gardens, landscaping with trees/shrubs, focusing on growing in the ground, raised beds or containers, now is the time to plan. We receive so many seed catalogs during January and our minds fill with dreams of lush and plentiful gardens. Have some fun designing and dreaming while you are inside during the winter months.
While we are looking forward to our Spring Garden activities, let’s not forget to protect our existing plants from the severe freezes or prolonged temperatures that fall at or below freezing. Simple methods such as covering your plants with sheets, comforters, frost cloth are a safe, easy and effective method to protect your plants. Many people utilize miniature Christmas lights on plants then cover them with sheets, etc. to trap and hold in the heat that is generated. Bringing plants indoors, tucking them under covered patios or moving them into a garage are other good alternatives to keeping plants out of extreme temperatures this Winter. Be sure to uncover and/or move your plants back out again when the freezing episode is over.
For perennial plants that are in the ground, a good covering of mulch can help prevent cold damage. Mulch can consist of pine straw, clean hay, pine bark mulch, dry leaves, pine bark nuggets, and shredded hardwood bark. With a little care, your perennials will be popping back up to provide you with beautiful display in a few months.
I am looking forward to being your 2025/2026 President. Let’s get our hands a little dirty together and have a lot of fun
See you in the garden,
Pam Chavez
I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season and are kicking off the new year with lots of planning for your 2025 gardening season. Whether you are planning a vegetable garden, flower gardens, landscaping with trees/shrubs, focusing on growing in the ground, raised beds or containers, now is the time to plan. We receive so many seed catalogs during January and our minds fill with dreams of lush and plentiful gardens. Have some fun designing and dreaming while you are inside during the winter months.
While we are looking forward to our Spring Garden activities, let’s not forget to protect our existing plants from the severe freezes or prolonged temperatures that fall at or below freezing. Simple methods such as covering your plants with sheets, comforters, frost cloth are a safe, easy and effective method to protect your plants. Many people utilize miniature Christmas lights on plants then cover them with sheets, etc. to trap and hold in the heat that is generated. Bringing plants indoors, tucking them under covered patios or moving them into a garage are other good alternatives to keeping plants out of extreme temperatures this Winter. Be sure to uncover and/or move your plants back out again when the freezing episode is over.
For perennial plants that are in the ground, a good covering of mulch can help prevent cold damage. Mulch can consist of pine straw, clean hay, pine bark mulch, dry leaves, pine bark nuggets, and shredded hardwood bark. With a little care, your perennials will be popping back up to provide you with beautiful display in a few months.
I am looking forward to being your 2025/2026 President. Let’s get our hands a little dirty together and have a lot of fun
See you in the garden,
Pam Chavez