davis_square | Somerville Garden Club (Reply)

Hello to all the folks who stopped by the Somerville Garden Club table today at ArtBeat! It was lovely meeting you all!

I wanted to remind people that we're getting down to the deadline for nominating gardens for the 2010 Somerville Garden Tour. More information here: http://www.somervillegardenclub.org/

Direct link to the nomination form: http://www.somervillegardenclub.org/docs/SGC_Nomination_Form.pdf

Nominations are due by July 21, 2009.

This year, we're focusing more on edible gardens, including fruit trees and berry bushes as well as the standard vegetable plot.

You don't need to know the person you're nominating! You can nominate anyone whose garden you appreciate or admire. You don't even need to know their names, just write the address on the form. And we're not going to be exclusively presenting edible gardens - feel free to nominate ornamental gardens as well!

We have a CD of pictures taken by a variety of photographers (who went through their hundreds of pictures and winnowed the results down to a few really gorgeous shots for each site) of the 2008 Somerville Garden Tour. If your garden was on the tour, the CD is free. It's $5 for everyone else. The CDs are available at our meeting (along with free copies of our fabulous newsletter, $5 SGC tote bags of unbleached cotton, and whatever other goodies people bring in to give away).

Also, if you're looking for an organic way to get rid of fruit flies, I wrote up a recipe here: http://kjc007.livejournal.com/185110.html (and a friend commented with an alternative recipe).

Notes on handling pantry moths here: http://kjc007.livejournal.com/185405.html (not completely organic, as we've used diluted bleach in the past for handling the lil buggers)

And organic suggestions for dealing with slugs & snails here: http://kjc007.livejournal.com/185632.html

We'll be launching a new website soon, at which point I'll probably put these posts up over there as well.

The SGC meets on the second Wednesday of every month 7:00–9:00 p.m. at the Tufts Administration Building (TAB), 167 Holland St., second floor. The meetings are free, open to the public, and are wheelchair accessible. Most meetings begin with a roundtable discussion of seasonal gardening issues, followed by a speaker, and ending with a raffle.