Thomas Jefferson Middle School Community Garden

The weather forecast looks perfect, and the garden grew about 12” last week with all the rain. Can’t wait to get back out in the dirt with all our community volunteers from 10-noon Saturday morning.

Some of the native plants growing in our pollinator garden this week.

We’ve finally broken the drought, yay! But it will be too rainy in the garden for a workday tomorrow (boo). See you next week instead!

Fava beans, tomato plants, and volunteers, oh my! Thank you to everyone who came out to work in the garden with us last week, especially our new volunteers who joined us via Saturdays in the Garden program. We hope to see you back in the garden in the future! (Not this Saturday, though, we are cancelling due to rain.)

Stay tuned: we are watching Saturday’s forecast before deciding about our workday

Join us Saturday May 16, 9-Noon for our spring Open Garden Workday at the TJMS Community Garden.

What a glorious few weeks in the garden we’ve had recently! We are deep into strawberry season, our summer vegetables are in the ground and growing enthusiastically, our peas are starting to blossom, we’ve made multiple donations to , and we are ready and excited to welcome our neighbors and friends to the garden for our Spring Open Garden this Saturday, May 16 9-noon! (Note the different time, 9 instead of 10.)

Last week in the pollinator garden, we had several middle school students join our Master Naturalist and adult volunteers to w**d and care for our native plants.

Join us in the garden from 10-noon tomorrow, Saturday, May 9, for our community garden workday.

Back to our roots (no pun intended) with Girl Scouts in the garden. Our garden was originally a Silver Award project, and we were so happy to welcome scouts from TJ and Fleet to the garden last week to plant flower seeds and basil, w**d, and harvest.

Photos from the past couple of weeks in the TJMS Community Garden: harvesting spring crops of radishes and spinach, and planting summer crops of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants.