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How can you support the Blessed Sacrament
Community Garden and Grow to Share Effort?
1. You can volunteer to:
- Sow seeds
- Transplant seedlings into the garden
- Construct a trellis or raised bed
- Deliver the harvest to a designated food bank or provider.
2. You can “grow to share” using your home garden. You can share your produce by delivering your vegetables to the Social Concerns Office.
- Early spring crops: lettuces, spinach, peas, radishes – can be sown beginning mid March
- Summer crops: tomatoes, beans, cabbage, leafy greens, squash can be sown according to schedule
- Fall crops: kale, root crops, Brussels sprouts, acorn squash according to schedule
Get your family into the “growing” act with these activities:
- Plant a “Three Sisters Garden” based on the three Native American companion plants of corn, pole beans, and summer squash.
- Plant a potato tower using seed potatoes, chicken wire, and dirt – read how to do it. Eat half the harvest and send the rest to Social Concerns for distribution!
- Plant a salad container of early spring lettuces, radishes, and spinach; later in the summer add a patio-size tomato or a cherry or grape tomato. In fact, plant two! One for your family and one to share!
