Celebrate the Harvest!

... an evening of garden-fresh treats, wine, and raffles to benefit Salem Community Gardens

August 31st         7PM - 9PM

Hosted by:  Pamplemousse, 185 Essex Street, Salem

Thanks to Gulu Gulu and 62 on Wharf for the food, Front Street Cafe for the door prizes,

and all the businesses who daonate raffle prizes - you are awesome!

Advance tickets available at Pamplemousse and Crunchy Granola Baby

Tickets also available at the door - space is limited.

Suggested Donation $20

Click here for a flyer.

Thanks to all of you who have donated produce to Saint Joseph's Pantry so far this year.  We've delivered at least 

four big trugs full every Thursday for the better part of the summer.  Your generosity is greatly appreciated! 

Just outside of the Palmer Cove Community Garden, SCG maintain a “Community Share Plot” with vegetables, herbs,

and berries for those in the neighborhood to harvest.  This year, neighbors have enjoyed a bountiful crop -

cabbage, kohlrabi, basil, chives, oregano, scallions, spinach, a variety of peppers and tomatoes, eight ball zucchini,

raspberries, green beans, edamame, and more.

Slugs can eat a LOT of greenery in an evening.  There are Mack Park gardeners which have lost entire crops of beans and lettuce this season.  While slugs may not be the only culprits, they should definitely be on your list of likely suspects when your plants are being eaten!

Many gardeners have heard of the drunken slug trap - a bowl placed in the garden.  It's filled with beer each evening and filled with pickled slugs each morning.  Well, it turns out there are a few more approaches to slug control.  They fall into three main categories - lure, repel, and/or kill.  Lure with beer, bait, or a nice place to hide; repel with copper, diatomaceous earth, or coffee; kill with ducks, rove beetles, or toads. Clearly not all solutions are viable in a community garden.  But to learn more, here are three reads filled with great tips and information!
 
1.  "Thirteen Ways to Stop Slugs" by Mike McGrath of the You Bet Your Garden Show on WHYY in Philidelphia. 
2.  I also liked this quick read on Eartheasy.com: "Natural Slug Control". 
3.  And to complete your slug studies, check out this more scholarly read from the University of Minnesota's Sustainable Urban Landscaping Information Series.  But please note that the chemical slug controls described can not be used at a Salem Community Garden. 

If you find something that works, let your fellow gardeners know.  Join the discussion forum group, "Salem Slugs".