Gardening Group Documents Feb & Mar Meetings - Spring Garden Plans & Sustainable Garden Ideas

As a garden group, we met the first Saturdays in February and March.
In February we talked together about what our Spring Garden plans would be and we discussed the best veggies to plant and when. The summary of our meeting can be seen HERE.

In March, We focused our topic on ways to be more sustainable in our gardening - less dependent on stores/nurseries. We discussed COMPOSTING, WORM FARMING and WATER HARVESTING. The summary of our meeting can be seen HERE.

A Neighborhood Garden Tour

Last Saturday, we gathered to see 4 gardens around our neighborhood. Each garden and gardener had many helpful things to teach us. I have done my best to summarize the tour and the highlights of each unique garden and you can view the summary HERE. 

Garden Discussion Documents

I'm catching up on getting our Gardeners Meeting Notes on here for availability.

Gardening Meeting #3 
Top Crops, Companion Planting and Pest Control

Companion Planting
A brief overview of plants that benefit from being planted near each other in the garden; taken from Carrots love Tomatoes & Roses love Garlic by Louise Riotte

Top Crops #2
Details on these crops: cabbage,
broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, carrots, peas, beans.

Common Garden Pests and what to do! 

Gardening Meeting #4
Cold Weather Protection for our plants

Gardening Group Meeting #2

We held our second gardening group meeting this past Saturday!

You can view a summary of what we covered HERE.

We detailed several popular crops and you can view the information on planting, nutritional needs, pollinating and watering of tomatoes, green onions, garlic, lettuce, kale, spinach, herbs and zucchini HERE.

And in case you need our desert planting calendar again, you can view that HERE.

Gardening Group Meeting #1 Notes

Click HERE to view our Gardening Group Meeting Notes and Resource from August 5th Meeting!

Garden Growers Helpful Documents

Here are the documents from our Garden Growers Meetings.

Information on Soil Preparation, Pest and Weed Control, Composting, Planting Times in the Arizona Desert climate, etc. I will add future documents to this post as well.

Alternative downloads from Google Drive:

Garden Growers Group Meeting #1 (Garden Soil and Planting)

Planting Times

Garden Growers Group Meeting #2 (Weed, Grass and Pest Control, Composting)

Garden Growers Group Meeting #3 (Garden Tour, Sweet Potato Harvest, Luufa Squash and Discussion)