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Mulch and Much More

Larry Cipolla

What's in your mulch and how do you know? How do you use what you use and why? Learn about commercial organic and synthetic materials. Learn when to use the right product for the right application in the right way. Learn which products to use as fertilizer and to deter jumping worms--and much more.

Larry Cipolla is a life-long gardener, life-long learner, published author, speaker, and master gardener. He teaches a wide-range of topics related to vegetables and herbs and specializes in hydroponics for the home-owner. His vegetable, herb, pollinator, and Japanese gardens have been on more than twenty-five fund-raising tours and featured on national and local television programs, local and national newspapers, and periodicals.

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Garden Plant Sale (Fundraiser)

The Longfellow Garden Club invites you to participate in our 2024 plant and gardening supply sale! 

The event will be held rain or shine. 

Look for us across the street from the Longfellow Park tennis courts, on the corner of East 34th Street & 38th Avenue South.

The sale starts promptly at 9:30 am.

If you have items to donate, please drop them off at the site between 8:45 and 9:15 to allow set-up time. 

Purchase (or donate):

• Garden tools and supplies

• Garden books

• Garden collectables

• Garden tools and garden supplies

• Unused remainders of viable seed packets

• Decorative plant containers

• Yard art or bird feeders

• Early harvests from your vegetable and fruit gardens, such as rhubarb, asparagus, spring onions, or other early spring vegetables (bagged for easy handling)

Purchase plant seedings or cuttings (donated by the garden team only)

Due to concerns about the spread of jumping worms, we will not accept plants from the general public, except for cuttings in water. However, we will have perennial, annual, and vegetable seedlings and cuttings that have been potted in sterile soil by a few gardeners on the Longfellow Garden Club team. We also won’t accept any general household items nor food items.

💲Items will not be priced, but a donation is requested for any item you take. Cash, checks, and Venmo accepted. Free will donations will be graciously accepted.

Please consider joining as a full member of our garden club. Memberships are only $7 per year.

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Garden Tour and Educational Exhibits

The Club invites you to a visit the beautiful garden of Pat Rosaves

Meet at 2543 38th Ave S. Mpls. Pat Rosaves  

The Rosaves garden features a sunny perennial garden, a spring  garden and a   woodland inspired garden.

Pat's garden includes many trees including white pines, aspens, mountain ash, Japanese maple, and bushes in different areas. The front yard is terraced with tumbled stones, a wide variety of plants, and a rain garden for runoff from the roof.  Pat and her family have a large lot that has allowed them to choose and plant many varieties of trees and flowers, including a wooded wild area.

Experienced gardeners will be on hand to answer gardening questions.

The tour is free and open to everyone.  Find inspiration for your garden and enjoy a beautiful morning! 

Memberships appreciated, $7/yr but not required

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Garden Club Pot Luck Supper

Longfellow Garden Club invites all to a potluck supper on Wednesday August 9 at 6:00 pm.

We have a new garden to share this year and the location is 2543 38th Ave S. Mpls. Pat Rosaves  sharing her garden this year.

Pat's garden includes many trees including white pines, aspens, mountain ash, Japanese maple, and bushes in different areas. The front yard is terraced with tumbled stones, a wide variety of plants, and a rain garden for runoff from the roof.  Pat and her family have a large lot that has allowed them to choose and plant many varieties of trees and flowers, including a wooded wild area.

Bring a folding chair (if possible) and a something to share. You are encouraged to bring dish using your own or locally grown produce. 

Ice water and tea will be provided. Feel free to bring a plate/utensils. Our goal is to have zero waste event.

WEDNESDAY  SEPT 11

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Tour of Longfellow Garden at Minnehaha Falls Park

Theresa Burton 

Join Theresa Burton, Garden Designer, for an inspiring tour of the breath taking garden on a unique site. it is located across from Minnehaha Falls and next to the Longfellow House. The garden is usually filled with hummingbirds in Sept. as an additional treat.

💻Via Zoom

Blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor growing 

Susan Kennedy

Learn to care for tropical plants that are raised inside during the winter and return to the outdoor garden the next summer. Enjoy the tropics and exotic plant life inside and outside!

Susan Kennedy is a retired software engineer, living in SW Minneapolis, with my rescue dog Maggie Mae, a flock of rescue cockatiels, and goldfish. She is a member of the Minneapolis Garden Club and editor of their newsletter The Garden Spray. She organizes an informal group called the Minnesota Cactus and Succulent Society.