October 2008

Announcing Our NEW Garden Community


Connect with fellow Renee's gardeners and exchange growing experiences, photos, recipes and ideas for gardening success at our new networking site:
  Renee's Community Garden.
Sign up to join, and you can:
bullet View the Trial Garden Blog and see what's happening in our Trial Garden
bullet Participate in discussions on Problem Solving and Gardening Tips and Ideas
bullet Share a favorite recipe in the Recipe Exchange
bullet Post your garden photos in galleries or slideshows, or organize them into albums

CLICK HEREto join and participate in our Community.
We look forward to meeting you!


Webmaster Sue's garden, one of the photos
on Renee's Community Garden- Photo Gallery

2008 Photo Contest Winner

October Treats
 This month's feature article October Treats includes some great recipes and storage tips for pumpkins, carrots and more.


Recipe of the Month:
Chocolate-y Carrot Bars


Moist and delicious - irresistible!
Congratulations to our first place winner Debra Mase. From her beautiful garden in Lebanon, Tennessee. Debra tells us that she has been gardening for many years, starting with her first herb garden in front of her father's workshop at age 14. She has even gardened in very high altitudes (9000 feet!). Debra grows a wide range of edibles including pumpkins for homemade pies, lots of salad lettuces, and has a 65 tree apple orchard. She loves zinnias and says of the handsome green spider who posed so perfectly on her equally green Renee's Garden "Green Envy" Zinnia , "My garden is good -bug friendly, so I hope to not only have the flowers again next year, but offspring of that same spider."

In the Trial Garden

September marked the end of summer trials, so we've just finished tasting and evaluating new sauce (Roma style) tomatoes from different Italian suppliers, but didn't find any with better flavor than our current variety Pompeii. We've had a late summer planting of our Salad Leaf basil, Mrs. Burns lemon basil, Queenette Thai,and marvelously fragrant Perfumo Di Genova basils to enjoy with the tomatoes, so big juicy slices of tomato, basil and fresh mozzarella sandwiches have been the order of the day for lunch around here.

In the flower gardens, Renee just finished picking out a wonderful new cutting zinnia in beautiful rose shades as well as a jazzy hot color combo of rich purple, vibrant yellow and glowing orange from our 120 foot planting of different zinnia cultivars. We will trial these ready to pick bouquets in Vermont next summer to make sure they do well there and probably introduce them for the 2010.


Renee, Sarah and Lindsay evaluating tomato trials

 

"Monet's Garden" Mesclun Lettuce

Renee in the News:

Valerie Scher,with the San Diego Union Tribune, features Renee in her article
"Get Your Household Into the Growing Game with Container Gardening"

Renee provides growing tips in Bev Bennet's article for the Philadelphia Enquirer, "It's Not Too Late for Lettuce"


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Best Wishes, Renee Shepherd


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