Get Your Gardening Gloves On

It's just about that time...time to put the gardening gloves on, prepare the garden beds for a new season and get planting! Edible Piedmont features some useful tips for low-maintenance, organic backyard gardening in its spring issue. There's information on what to plant, when to plant it and what dirt to use.

Today's Wall Street Journal features an article about one person's success over the past year with some garden gadgets designed to make gardening a snap. Check out the story on what worked really well, and what gadgets need improvement. You'll find info on some products that make it easy to garden right on your porch or deck.

Vegetable plants are available at market, so be sure to stop by this weekend and pick those up. As you begin your planting, please consider growing a bit extra to help feed needy families in our area. The Western Wake Farmers' Market is one of the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle's PAR sites. PAR is Plant a Row for the Hungry, a national program where home gardeners sign up, grow extra veggies and herbs, and donate the bounty as it is harvested.

Contact Amy Scott, our PAR person, to PARticipate this year. You can email her or sign up at market. Then when your garden is producing, just drop off your extra produce at our Donation Station, the red wagon, at market. The Food Shuttle picks up perishable foods at the end of each market and delivers them THAT day to area shelters, pantries, etc. It feels good when you grow to give!