Alton Village Square Community Gardens
Alton Village Square Veggie Gardens
by Emily Quinton, Director, AGA, (Alton Village Square Gardens Committee), April, 2022
Did you know that the Alton Village Square is home to 4 raised planters and a number of perennial fruit shrubs like currants and gooseberries?
For the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of planting, weeding and watering this space for the community to taste, enjoy and watch grow. This year we have an exciting new addition to the square – a pollinator planter! Attracting pollinator species to a space is critical for many of the reasons that Julie explains under the Alton Village Butterflyway news, but some of the vegetable varieties planted in the raised beds (such as pumpkin, squash, zucchini and cucumber) also require the work of pollinators to produce fruit.
This year, you can expect to see a variety of vegetables in the Village Square garden including tomatoes, squash, kale, peppers, onions, herbs, carrots and peas. Soil and compost are being added next week, and planting will begin on the first weekend of June.
Please feel free to stop by and see what’s growing!
by Emily Quinton, Director, AGA, (Alton Village Square Gardens Committee), April, 2022
Did you know that the Alton Village Square is home to 4 raised planters and a number of perennial fruit shrubs like currants and gooseberries?
For the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of planting, weeding and watering this space for the community to taste, enjoy and watch grow. This year we have an exciting new addition to the square – a pollinator planter! Attracting pollinator species to a space is critical for many of the reasons that Julie explains under the Alton Village Butterflyway news, but some of the vegetable varieties planted in the raised beds (such as pumpkin, squash, zucchini and cucumber) also require the work of pollinators to produce fruit.
This year, you can expect to see a variety of vegetables in the Village Square garden including tomatoes, squash, kale, peppers, onions, herbs, carrots and peas. Soil and compost are being added next week, and planting will begin on the first weekend of June.
Please feel free to stop by and see what’s growing!
The Alton Village Butterflyway Project
by Julie Pomeroy, Director, AVA (Alton Village Butterflyway Project Committee)
The Alton Village Butterflyway is an initiative of the Alton Village Association started in 2021. We are a group of keen volunteers, residents and businesses, creating native habitat, "one fun butterfly-friendly" planting at a time. We do what we can to help the environment, create beautiful spaces, and promote community well-being with the wonderful gardens that we plant.
Our mission is to promote and plant a network of diverse and sustainable native plant gardens in our community, that will meet the objectives of the David Suzuki (DSF) Butterflyway, add colourful character to our neighbourhood and foster a spirit of community pride now and for future generations.
This year a planter was selected in the Alton Village Square to initiate our first butterfly garden. THANK YOU to Lynx and Hare Cycles, Stephan Schneider and Shannon McCauley, for their kind and generous offer to sponsor this garden. The plants were ordered, planted and bloomed beautifully late summer attracting many pollinators.
If you like gardening and you want to learn more about native plants and creating a Butterfly garden please contact us.
Links for more information:
by Julie Pomeroy, Director, AVA (Alton Village Butterflyway Project Committee)
The Alton Village Butterflyway is an initiative of the Alton Village Association started in 2021. We are a group of keen volunteers, residents and businesses, creating native habitat, "one fun butterfly-friendly" planting at a time. We do what we can to help the environment, create beautiful spaces, and promote community well-being with the wonderful gardens that we plant.
Our mission is to promote and plant a network of diverse and sustainable native plant gardens in our community, that will meet the objectives of the David Suzuki (DSF) Butterflyway, add colourful character to our neighbourhood and foster a spirit of community pride now and for future generations.
This year a planter was selected in the Alton Village Square to initiate our first butterfly garden. THANK YOU to Lynx and Hare Cycles, Stephan Schneider and Shannon McCauley, for their kind and generous offer to sponsor this garden. The plants were ordered, planted and bloomed beautifully late summer attracting many pollinators.
If you like gardening and you want to learn more about native plants and creating a Butterfly garden please contact us.
Links for more information:
