Canning Class!
We will be having a canning class - water bath canning tomatoes - on Saturday Sept. 9, 2023 at 1 pm at the First Baptist Church of...
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Caroline Abbott
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Summer Updates at the garden
TOPS bed #1 now Tops bed #2 now As you can see, the addition of nitrogen, in the form of whey, on about a weekly basis has had a dramatic...
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Caroline Abbott
- Jul 4
- 2 min
A Tale of Two Beds...
This is the TOPS raised garden bed by the sidewalk. We will call this TOPS bed #1. This is the second raised bed managed by TOPS, right...
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Caroline Abbott
- Jun 29
- 1 min
Free Seeds!!!
Home Depot in Plainwell donated all their leftover seeds - which are fresh for this year - to the Otsego Public Library. They are all...
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Caroline Abbott
- Jun 16
- 2 min
Plots are looking great!
Sorry, I didn't get a current picture up yet, but the plots are looking really good! I just wanted to share some timely information:...
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Caroline Abbott
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Spring 2023 information
We are ready to begin assigning plots to the garden for this season. We will have everything ready by the middle of the first week of...
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Caroline Abbott
- Jan 13
- 2 min
New Plans for Spring 2023
This spring I am planning to add four raised beds to the garden. Each bed will be four feet wide and eight feet long. They will each be...
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Caroline Abbott
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Transformed!!!
Here is the flower bed in the community garden at the end of the summer season 2022. Starting in September 2022, a group of Otsego High...
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Caroline Abbott
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Spring garden updates
For everyone's information, here are a few things to know as the season gets going: I organized the shed, so you should be able to find...
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Caroline Abbott
- May 6, 2022
- 1 min
Time to get started!
Join us this Saturday, May 7, 2022 starting at 10:00 am as we till up the plots and prepare for this year's garden. If you are new to the...
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Caroline Abbott
- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
Winter thoughts of spring
As we look forward to the 2022 spring gardening season, I am thinking of what has worked, what didn't work and how we can improve the...
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Caroline Abbott
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Think Spring!
This year we will probably schedule a day or two to prep the garden beds prior to planting. We will need some help moving finished...
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Caroline Abbott
- Feb 25, 2020
- 1 min
Time for 2020 plots!
We are accepting applications for 2020 plots in the community garden. First preference is given to those who had plots last year. After...
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Caroline Abbott
- Aug 5, 2019
- 1 min
Summer Happenings!
The plots are doing great! I will add some more recent pictures soon. Now that some produce is coming in, we are ready to begin...
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Caroline Abbott
- Jun 29, 2019
- 1 min
And the plots grow on!
Here we are in the best growing days of the summer and the plots are looking really good! We have a little bunny problem we hope to solve...
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Caroline Abbott
- Jun 10, 2019
- 1 min
Our beginnings...
We broke ground on Friday, May 31, 2019 at the community garden. Here is the first plot that was tilled. Since then the garden has...
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Caroline Abbott
- May 21, 2019
- 1 min
Preparing to break ground!
Everyone who is interested in a plot should come on Saturday, June 1st to the garden. We will assign plots, plow them and help you get...
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Caroline Abbott
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
Time for a full launch
We have full permission to get people signed up, so now we need help getting the word out that we are here. I have tomato plants...
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Caroline Abbott
- May 2, 2019
- 1 min
Sign-up has begun!
We have officially begun the sign-up process for the community garden. Flyers and posters have been distributed throughout the city and...
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