What to Plant Now in Pikesville

    Your Personalized Planting Reminders

Here are the planting reminders for your location for the next two weeks

  

Sow under cover or indoors: Basil Pumpkin Sow outdoors or plant out: Apple (Dwarf) Beans (Bush Snap) Beet Blackberry Blueberry Carrot Corn Cucumber Lettuce (Leaf) Onion Peas Pepper Potatoes (Maincrop) Radish Raspberry Rhubarb Strawberry Tomato (Large) Turnip Watermelon Zucchini

Stingy Solutions!

I love to troll the aisles at Home Depot or Lowes to get ideas for re-purposing products for garden uses.


Last year I discovered galvanized ladder wire/mesh used to lay out cinder blocks, which is a perfect adaptation for creating row covers!

So you want this...

 ...without paying for this:
Online: $29 for 6, plus S&H






 

At Home Depot ~$2 each !!

You can bend them into any shape, cut them with wire cutters, and still afford the cover fabric!
Look for them in any bog box store with building supplies, or even online.

So look for supplies from roofing, masonry and other departments; like this galvanized mud pan for $8.61. What a fabulous modern window planter!

Civic Project - Levindale Auxiliary Sensory Garden

Our club's 2015 civic project will be to supply and plant the raised bed in the Levindale Auxiliary Sensory Garden located at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital 

The goal is to have scent, touch, and visual beauty.
As you can see from the photo below circled in red, it is a small enough bed !

Stay tuned to see the after-pictures once we have completed the planting!

What To Plant Now Guide for Pikesville 21208

From Mother Earth News website, get your What To Plant Now guide:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/what-to-plant-now-zl0z0903zalt.aspx

Here is the guide for Pikesville 21208:

Library Digital Offerings for Gardeners

You may not be aware that the Baltimore County Public Library (BCPL) system offers well over 100 free digital magazines for download and viewing on computers or other digital devices, many of which are of interest to gardeners. You can save these forever, or just save pages you like from the magazines. Using the Zinio magazine app or website, you can read the issues you have "checked out"

Here is just a sampling of this month's magazines which might be of interest to gardeners:

 

You can view the magazine collection HERE

2015 Membership Gift Bags!

The first 13 new or renewing members receive a fabulous membership gift bag filled with more than $50 of garden goodies from Home Depot, Giant Food, and other businesses, after which new or renewing members receive gift bags with fewer goodies.

Gift bags include 2 reusable shopping bags, free soil test kit, box of one perennial bulb, seed packets, Jiffy greenhouse planter, Jiffy self-watering seed tray, bag of potting soil & lots more! We also have some starter plants to share like onion sets, asparagus, etc.

Each member gets a SOIL COLLECTION TEST KIT from http://npdg.ou.edu/citizenscience

Each member gets a boxed flower bulb
courtesy of GIANT FOOD of Pikesville


Pick up your gift bags at our next MEETING on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22 @ 6:30pm at 8 Church Lane

Download a Membership Form from our website!

Philadelphia Flower Show

If you plan to attend the Philadelphia Flower Show there are often PROMO CODES that you can enter at checkout to receive discounts on the price of your ticket. If you perform a Google search many will come up. Tickets can be purchased here: https://secure.interactiveticketing.com/a/376694

Here are just a few (some may be expired so just try them):

PHSBEWELL  $5 off general admission

Special discounted offer through LivingSocial on various days of the Show

Uber:

Get a free ride to the Flower Show with Uber. New users get a complimentary ride up to $20 using the promo code PHSFLOWER. Park elsewhere and take an Uber ride to the Show.

Museums:

ARTICULTURE  promo code at checkout on area museum websites for discount tickets to the area museums during the show!