Gardening activities

While you can't work with plants every day, particularly in the Winter, you can be involved in gardening activities on a daily basis. This evening is the monthly meeting of the Kitchener Master Gardeners. Roughly 25 members get together to hear one of our members give a short talk on gardening/horticulture and then we get down to planning activities.

On tonights agenda, we will be trying to make a decision on the purchase of a laptop and projection equipment that will be used for our PowerPoint demonstrations planned for Seedy Saturday 2010. We will also be planning our participation in the KW Home, Garden and Cottage Show, Canada Blooms in Toronto and the Kitchener Horticultural Society's events (Plant Exchange and Bulb Sale). We'll also most likely be talking about our annual summer trip.

We won't be getting our hands in soil and rooting about, but this is the next best thing. We have an opportunity to learn from one another and to share our passion with others. Over the years, my colleagues in the Master Gardeners have increased my knowledge of gardening and horticulture immeasureably and through my membership I have seen gardens and nurseries, listened to speakers that I might otherwise never have seen or heard.