SLUGgish start to garden

Nice weather we’re having: if you’re a slug! The YEC garden has had a rough couple of weeks. The early start that we got on the beets and beans has been undone by a small army of slugs that have taken up residence in the garden. All wet and no sun creates ideal conditions for […]

Tools for all!

There has been a tool windfall here at the Hilton-Winn Farm! The Youth Enrichment Center is the happy beneficiary of a generous donation by Corona Tools of Corona, CA, a long-established manufacturer of high quality garden, landscape and agricultural tools. Through its Corona Cares program, Corona seeks to support community-based green education projects. Happily for […]

The seeds are here!

A sure sign that Spring is not far off arrived in the mail this week: the seed order is here! Hooray 🙂 Looking through the amazing seed catalog, it sure is hard to rein ourselves in and limit our order to what we can actually plant. Exercising as much restraint as we could, we still […]

Spring work in the garden

Between raindrops, tiny starts of plants are slowly making their way into the garden.  I have vowed to mulch mulch mulch this year, to help keep out the weeds, so any chance I get, tiny plants are surrounded by a layering of newspaper and grass clippings.  Old coffee sacks are also being used over newspaper […]