#blackswallowwort

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It’s time to remove Black Swallow Wort (quickly! ...before the pods disperse) The City of #Somerville is partnering with the Somerville Garden Club to get the word out about this invasive weed.  For more information:  https://www.somervillema.gov/bsw

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SAVE THE DATES! Fall Happenings for Gardeners. by guest Blogger, Helen Snively

Want to brag about your garden, get some plants for next season or meet other gardeners? Lots of stuff happening this fall, come out and join the fun.

1.  2018 Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP. Saturday September 8, NOON to 2 pm, Rain date—in case of DOWNPOUR—is Sunday Sep. 9, 12pm-2pm at Fayette Park (near the corner of Broadway and Fayette St. in Cambridge). Bring anything you’d like to share. Elegant packaging not required, but please do write down the names of plants. We expect to have perennials, biennial seedlings, seeds, indoor plants, catalogs, pots, and lots of "whatever." Feel free to just come, chat with neighbors, talk gardening.

2.  Sustainable Belmont Green Garden Tour (and small plant swap), Sun. Sep. 9, 11am to 3pm, rain or shine. Pick up a map at Belmont Library, 366 Beech St, or online at: sustainablebelmont.net

 3. Watertown Citizens’ Fall Life-Friendly Garden Tour, Sun. Sep. 9, 1:30 to 5. http://watertowncitizens.org/gardentour/ Note: The two tours above are similar: about 10 or 12 gardens, self-guided, emphasis on sustainable, chemical-free growing, and on bees, other critters.  They’re deliberately on the same day so you can cruise around (parts of) both in the same afternoon. Out of courtesy to the gardeners, online maps are only available the day of the tour.

4. Somerville Garden Club Annual Plant Sale, Davis Sq., Sat. Sep. 15, 9am to 1pm. Great stuff, at good prices, and lots of advice. Plus books, pots, etc. Always fun, bigger and better every year. Check it out!

5.  Arlington Garden Tour, Sun. Sep. 23, 12 to 4. Self-guided tour of a variety of private and public gardens that feature trees, some with native plants and edibles, all over Arlington. $25 in advance/$30 on the day.  More Info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arlingtons-tree-mendous-fall-garden-tour-tickets-47817331927

6.  Black swallow-wort—and milkweed—info and activism.  Feeling deluged with info on this invasive weed?  (see past post on this blog) Good... the word must be getting out :)  If you don’t know about it, please check the Pod Patrol Facebook page, or google “black swallow-wort at Fresh Pond”  The FB page has info sheets you can share. You can also  find information on the Somerville Garden Club’s webpage.  If we all talk about this weed, and pick pods (which go in trash in a closed plastic bag), we CAN defeat it.  Now to the fun and positive side of this activism: more and more people are planting milkweeds, crucial for Monarchs. Join us? We’ll have a few seed pods and seedlings at the swap. And if you have some to share, please bring them.