Daily Archives: August 16, 2010

Saturday, August 28, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Vegetables on Parade

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How do you avoid flea beetles on your arugula or tomato horn worms on your tomatoes? Wondering when to harvest garlic or how to hard-off winter squash? If these are questions you’re asking then this class at The Berkshire Botanical Garden on Saturday, August 28, from 10 – 12,  is for you. This demonstration will cover how to care for vegetables once the garden is already planted and growing. The focus will be on specific vegetables with detailed information on cultivation, pests problems/control, planting companions, weed control, moisture requirements and how and when to harvest. Take a walk through the vegetable garden for new ideas on what to grow. Tips for preserving the harvest will be included.  $18 for BBG members, $24 for non members.  Register on line at www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413- 298-3926.

Pat Parkins owns Gardens of the Goddess, an organic gardening business, focused on enhancing nature’s beauty through landscape design, installation and maintenance. She incorporates her interest in ecology into her landscaping practices. She tends a large home vegetable garden in Becket.

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Saturday, August 28, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – World’s End

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World’s End, a 275-acre peninsula owned by The Trustees of Reservation, is well known for the beauty of its landscape and its views of Boston Harbor. The property, which was farmed for several hundred years, was slated in the late 19th century to be subdivided under a plan (later abandoned) designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. It has a remarkable variety of naturalized as well as native flora. Its woodlands include communities dominated by Norway maple and English oak as well as an impressive stand of native red oak and hop hornbeam. Its old fields and thickets contain an exceptional diversity of herbaceous plants, including the rare showy goldenrod, and its lowland habitats have both freshwater wetlands and salt marshes. This New England Wild Flower Society walk led by Jessica Korecki on Saturday, August 28, from 10 – 1 will cover a variety of communities from the high points of the property’s open drumlins to rocky coves and shaded overlooks. We will look at both native and naturalized flora, and at the dynamics of their coexistence in this unique environment. World’s End is also a great place for birding, and binoculars are recommended. Bring a bag lunch and a hand lens if you have one. Fee: $24 (Member) / $27 (Nonmember).  To sign up, log on to www.newfs.org, or call 508-877-7630.