May is for Many Garden Tours

May News: Here Comes the Sun

May is bursting with local garden tours. 
Browse below to take your pick, or attend them all!

Learn Container Planting May 11 in Healdsburg

The Sonoma County Master Gardeners are presenting a workshop on container gardening Saturday, May 11, at the Healdsburg Regional Library from 10:30 a.m. to noon. It's free, but registration is required.
 
Master Gardeners Nancy Creveling and Bryce Sumner will cover suitable containers, plants that grow well in containers, and how to plant and maintain your container garden. 
 
They will have examples on hand and demonstrate how to plant a container garden, with ideas for salad gardens, edible flower gardens, and other container garden planting combinations.  

Marin-Sonoma Eco-Friendly Garden Tour is May 18

 Sign up for the 2024 Eco-Friendly Garden tour, and tour 26 gardens in Sonoma and Marin counties on Saturday, May 18. 
 
The annual self-guided tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
 
It's free, but you do need to register to get locations and other info. For registration and details, visit the Sonoma Marin Water Saving Partnership Website. 

 Milo Baker Native Plant Sale is May 18  
Don't have time to spend the day touring gardens? Check out one of the associated events: the annual California native plant sale hosted by the Milo Baker Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. It's at the Laguna Foundation (900 Sanford Road) in Santa Rosa from 10 a.m. to noon.

More Thanks to NEW Garden Bed Sponsors!

We have MORE people to thank for donating $80 a piece to fund a garden bed for a low-income Windsor family or senior citizen in the Town Green Community Garden.

Thanks to Alexandra Chastain, Catherine Adams, Drea White, Kristin Field, Isabel Gonzales, an anonymous donor, and Windsor Garden Club board members Anna Guyer and Mary Mariani, along with the wonderful Windsor Kiwanis Club and Windsor Lions Club, 20 low-income Windsor families and seniors have garden beds in the Town Green Community Garden for 2024!

They join financial supporters Ann Wallace, Valerie Pustorino, Barbara Reitz, Carla Tarazi, De Ann Sunday, Vicki Shreiner, Bill & Betsy Nachbaur, TGCG leader Kathy Matonak, WGC president Cindy Fenton, and Denise Jamison as garden bed sponsors for 2024.

Every spring, Windsor Garden Club receives requests for financial assistance from Windsor seniors and families who would like to grow vegetables, herbs, berries and more for their families in the Community Garden, but can't afford the annual rent. This year we had 20 requests - and thanks to the people and groups listed above, these folks are out planting.

Thank you once again, Windsor neighbors, for coming through when people need you. 

Windsor Town Green Community Gardeners:
A Word, Please

A message from the Town Green Community Garden Leaders:
 
Thank you to those of you who have so graciously answered our request to place straw on your bare soil beds. We want you to know how much appreciate your efforts to help us reach our goal of creating healthy soil and reducing weeds in the garden.
 
However, we still have a few 4x4', 4x8' and Fence-Post plot gardeners who have still have not completed this VERY important task! This will be our final reminder to our gardeners. We sincerely hope you will put some time aside this week to take care of this very important part of gardening. 
 
One more EXTREMELY important reminder: PLEASE do not forget to weed around your beds. Stepping on weeds does not kill them, it transfers the seeds everywhere else you go. The only way to get rid of weeds is to pull them, so if EVERYONE takes just 5 minutes every time you visit the garden, imagine what we can accomplish! Let’s tackle the scourge of the weed!
 
Thank you, everyone, for your cooperation with all these requests. We realize how busy everyone’s lives are. If something has happened and you need help maintaining your garden bed, please contact one of us! We are here to help.

Sherri Benner & Mary Mariani, Co-VPs

TGCG Work Morning is Saturday, May 11

Community Gardeners! This Saturday (May 11), is May's Community Garden Work Morning! It's from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the weather forecast is sunny with a chance of fun.

Bring water, a hat, your gloves and your favorite garden tool and come meet your fellow 2024 Gardeners and spruce up the common areas of the garden. Look for garden leaders to see if any specific tasks need doing. If not - there's always weeding!

Be sure to record your volunteer hours in the notebook inside the kiosk. 

All gardeners must complete 6 hours of volunteer maintenance work in the common areas of the garden by December. Bring a friend! Volunteers are always welcome! Friends and volunteers: be sure to check in with garden leaders and sign a Town of Windsor liability waiver first, if you want to help out.