Our Garden in Pictures
2021 DECEMBER
DECEMBER IN THE GARDEN
December 15, 2021
December in the Garden...always a pleasure!
December 15, 2021
December in the Garden...always a pleasure!
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2021 AUGUST
AUGUST IN THE GARDEN
August 13, 2021
CEDAR KEY GARDENERS BUILD A BED
August 3, 2021
In the early morning hours of July w9, several devoted, energetic Cedar Key Community Gardeners built a new bed, replacing the six-year-old one in place.
Heavy rains, knotted wood, and years took their toll on the pressure treated hulk, lowering on its northeastern corner.
Community Garden friend Norm Hodges dismantled the old bed and hauled the parts away for recycling.
Joe and Bunny Hand ordered the new wood and precut all pieces, leaving only assembly necessary.
Then, John McPherson, Mike Snapper, Norm Hodge, Joe Hand, Loss Benninghoff, and Mandy Offerle built the bed, leveled it, and stood it upright.
Alas, a new bed!
Certainly not a one-man operation. A million thanks to the bed construction crew.
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2020 DECEMBER
DECEMBER IN HE GARDEN
December 20, 2020
Gardeners ready their beds for wintry evenings but certainly not at the expense of flowers.
December 20, 2020
Gardeners ready their beds for wintry evenings but certainly not at the expense of flowers.
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2020 JULY
JULY IN THE GARDEN
July 7, 2020
July in the Cedar Key Community Garden proved delightfully wetter than the past several years. Resultantly, peppers and cucumbers are thriving, and flowers abound.
July 7, 2020
July in the Cedar Key Community Garden proved delightfully wetter than the past several years. Resultantly, peppers and cucumbers are thriving, and flowers abound.
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2020 JUNE
JUNE IN THE CEDAR KEY COMMUNITY GARDEN…PRETTY NICE
June has been a very warm month, but thanks to a newly broadened irrigation system inspired by Tom Deverin and actualized by Joe Hand and Doug Lindhout, all is well in the Garden.
The two new crepe myrtle trees planted this winter near the tool stand are blooming, as are their pink and white fellows along the center path.
While it is tough for venerable gardening in this heat, some beds continue to look lovely and flowers and caladium are rampant…though a bit exhausted late in the day.
Hope you enjoy a snapshot of the Garden in June. July pictures will be next.
June has been a very warm month, but thanks to a newly broadened irrigation system inspired by Tom Deverin and actualized by Joe Hand and Doug Lindhout, all is well in the Garden.
The two new crepe myrtle trees planted this winter near the tool stand are blooming, as are their pink and white fellows along the center path.
While it is tough for venerable gardening in this heat, some beds continue to look lovely and flowers and caladium are rampant…though a bit exhausted late in the day.
Hope you enjoy a snapshot of the Garden in June. July pictures will be next.
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2020 MAY
The Cedar Key Community Garden has lots to eat and continues to be beautiful…even through the end of May and beyond. The photos below were taken in May, 2020.
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2020 APRIL
In case you are missing the Cedar Key Community Garden, worry not; all is well.
Although…it is beginning to heat up in Cedar Key; temperatures take their toll, as every gardener knows. Days are into the mid-to-high eighties, with not much rain, excluding the times when tropical storms, like Arthur and Bertha, rumble by the coast.
Best of all, thanks to you, the Garden has an additional irrigation system designed by Joe Hand, Doug Lindhout, and Tom Deverin, and dug by the rest of us. The system keeps the Garden periphery watered appropriately. Works like a charm. It is great! Roses, gardenias, lilacs, nasturtium, etc. are all consummately happy and thriving.
As you can see in the pictures, our Tom-planted sunflowers are grand; the beach daisies are delightful; and cabbage is ready for slaw.
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