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Guest Article by Courtney Fritz After two cancellations during a surprisingly rainy week, the time finally came for the Community Garden to get its berry bushes planted. Of course, on berry bush planting day, I had expected a family bonding moment (mostly between my husband and daughter because at eight months pregnant, while I could technically get on the ground, I probably wouldn’t be getting off it anytime soon). However, my daughter instantly took a

The FCG steering committee decided to try straw bale gardening this year – we have a great “grassy” area that leads up to the garden beds and we felt it would be fun to use this space somehow.  Enter the Foxridge Community Garden Pumpkin Patch.   Gardening is all about experimenting – I’d certainly never planted vegetables in a straw bale, but I was intrigued.  I immediately went to our public library and checked out, Straw

It’s hard to believe with March’s blizzard, but spring is around the corner and soon it will be time to plant our favorite flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Quick tips to ready your garden beds for planting Make a plan: When should seeds be planted? How much space do they need for healthy growth?  Use our hardiness zone (5b) as a guide when picking out varieties  If planting veggies, think about what you and your family

When I started gardening 8 years ago and received my first seed catalog, I was blown away by all the varieties of fruits and vegetables you don’t see in the grocery store.  This is especially evident among tomatoes.  There is a lot more out there than a simple Beefsteak (slicer), Roma (sauce), and red cherry tomatoes (salad).  Might I suggest we all try something new this year? Pink Berkeley Tie Die  (Solanaceae Lycopersicon lycopersicum) Indeterminate

Foxridge Community Garden (FCG) was established as a community hub in 2020. We broke ground in spring, starting with a locally-funded and volunteer-designed and built mountainscape fence, phase 1 of our irrigation infrastructure, and two raised beds that were planted, tended, and harvested by FCG volunteers. Perennial and annual herbs found homes in donated containers. In the summer, Foxridge teen Ryan Reynolds fundraised, designed, and installed compost bins, a split-level potting bench, a produce wash

While it is good garden practice to “leave the leaves” to provide overwintering habitat for native insects, should you have a surplus of leaves this fall, we would love to use them to improve our soil in the Foxridge Community Garden. The more organic matter we have, the better. If you are raking up untreated leaves (leaves that have not been sprayed with chemical pesticides or from trees that have not been treated with systemic

The dog days of summer are upon us. It is important to keep plants hydrated in the heat; gardens are best watered early in the morning or in the evening. On hot afternoons, plants will sometimes swoon, evidenced by leaf roll; this is a plant shading itself and conserving its energy. After the sun drops, plants’ circulatory and respiratory systems regain function and they will welcome a refreshing drink of water. Mulching beds and pots

September brings to fruition the product of so much hard work: a bountiful harvest of tomatoes, eggplants and peppers! And zucchini; there is always plenty of zucchini. Though challenged by the heat and the growing pains of a garden in its first season, fruits on the donated plants in the Foxridge Community Garden (FCG) are ripening to a rainbow of colors: the deep purple of “Diamond” eggplant, the lemon yellow of Golden Crookneck Summer Squash,