Grafted Vegetables with Alice Doyle

This coming Tuesday please join Cottage Grove Garden Club in welcoming Alice Doyle of Log House Plants.

Alice will speak about the Log House's exciting new varieties of annuals, perennials, and edibles for 2015, including "Ketchup 'n' Fries" and the world's first dwarf grape.

Ketchup 'n' Fries is a tomato plant grafted to a potato plant. Territorial Seed says that this "grafted combination was first introduced to U.K. home gardeners last year and was a smashing success." For the first time it is being offered to US gardeners. Territorial says it is the "ultimate" container plant, but will do equally well in the garden.

Alice will join the Garden Club on Tuesday, March 3. Our business meeting starts at 6pm and Alice's presentation follows at 7pm.

The garden club meets in the Friendship Hall at the First Presbyterian Church at 3rd and Adams. All are welcome. Refreshments provided.

Not Your Usual Garden Variety Show

Our February presentation will be a little different this year... motivated by video clips from the Johnson Bros. newscasts on KEZI we will have informal round table discussions.

Are you wanting to know what to do in your garden in late winter and early spring? Gardeners sharing some of their tried and true techniques (and a few flops) will surely inspire camaraderie and provide solutions to your gardening challenges. If you want to get down and dirty with fellow gardeners — novice and experienced — please join us.

As always, this presentation is FREE and open to the public.

Please join The Cottage Grove Garden Club on Tuesday, February 3 at The First Presbyterian Church (on the corners of Adams and 3rd). Our business meeting begins at 6:00 pm, with refreshments following. The presentations begin at 7:00.

Hope to see you there!

Thriving Houseplants in the South Willamette Valley: January's Presentation

Garden Club members are well-acquainted with Maxine Simeone's wonderful gardening tips which are as entertaining as they are educational and helpful! This January Maxine will be our featured speaker as she shares her vast knowledge of supporting houseplants so they thrive in our varied climate.

A plant expert for many decades, Maxine will explain how you, too, can develop a green thumb with your houseplants all year round — with our abundant sunshine and heat of summer through our dark and moist winters. Orchids, African violets, philodendrons, pregnant onions.... you name it, Maxine can grow it!

The Garden Club meets Tuesday, January 6th at The First Presbyterian Church on the corners of Adams and 3rd. 6:00 pm is our business meeting, with refreshments following. Maxine's presentation begins at 7:00. As always, this presentation is FREE and open to the public.

Hope to see you there!

Winterizing Hand Tools

How do you sharpen those Felcos and that hoe? How do you keep your trowel from rusting?

Late fall is the perfect time for hand tool maintenance. On Tuesday, November 4, the Garden Club presents Andrea Mull and Suzanne Keaveny talking about the maintenance and care of all of your favorite hand gardening tools. Come learn how to care for your tools before you put them away for the winter!

Please join us in the Friendship Hall at the First Presbyterian Church, 216 South 3rd Street (the corner of 3rd and Adams), Cottage Grove, Oregon. Our business meeting starts at 6pm and the presentation begins at 7pm. All guest are welcome, refreshments provided.

And don't forget .... bring some tools to demonstrate and practice on!

Planting Spring Blooming Bulbs

This week at Garden Club, an expert team from Territorial Seed Company will be hosting a hands-on workshop for panting bulbs. Come learn which bulbs grow well in our southern Willamette Valley and how to put them in the ground.

Please join us at 6pm for the business meeting with the blub presentation beginning at 7pm. Refreshments provided.

As always, Garden Club presentations are free and open to the public. We meet in the Friendship Hall at the First Presbyterian Church, 216 South 3rd Street (the corner of 3rd and Adams), Cottage Grove, Oregon.