Spring planting has begun!

Our TPC Gardeners have been hard at work preparing the soil for another wonderful growing season. New flowers have been planted around the exterior and the spring harvest has already begun (see the Garden Log for details).

Plant a Row For the Hungry!

The Garden Writers Association is starting a new campaign for individuals or companies to plant an extra row in their garden to help feed our hungry neighbors. Please see the brochure for more info. Working together we can make a difference!

IGG Planting

Planting will start on TPC's Earth Sunday/ Blue Jean Sunday, April 10th! Call the church office at 410-823-6500 for more information or to volunteer.

Gardening Success Stories

Gardening Success Stories

Spring is coming and seeds are being started indoors in preparation for another wonderful growing season for the Intergenerational Garden. The IGG is fortunate to be showcased in an article posted on the University of Maryland Extension Grow It Eat It program's Garden Success Stories page (Click underlined link above to see article.) What a terrific way to help spur on the good works of the gardeners! Follow this blog to watch the fruits, vegetables, and flowers as they grow and mature and to find out how the garden impacts lives. Please be sure to visit the garden in person for a real life view of God's grace in action!

Camp BeeTree writes poetry about TPC IGG

Below is a "Poetry Salad" created by Madeleine of thoughts from campers after Camp BeeTree visited the IGG and Labryrinth.

I saw a garden with fruits and vegetables. I like seeing all things

I haven't seen before.
It was so cool . . . that I liked it so much.

Sweet, tall, strong, big, bright, bold, small

STEVIA: Green leaves, very sweet, thin . . . stems . . .

A very beautiful purple cabbage

Yummy flowers, spicy basil

Tomatoes hiding!

Carrots—surprise!

Sweet stevia

I saw beets

popping out of the ground

like groundhogs

Tomaters,

Potaters, scraggly and dry . . . I think they'll taste good, up in the sky.

Vines, strong plants

Good care for plants

Green, sprouting, growing.

Light green color

Dark green color

Strawberry:

Red, fat, tasty, cold, green, sweet, triangular

Tomato:

Red, plump, ripe, round, shiny

I breath strong, sweet smells

I see all the colors

I touch feathery leaves

Strong fruits

And I taste strength in these . . .

I saw the purple cabbage

and saw some different bugs

I smelled pink flowers

A light red fruit growing on

Delicate leaves

A red plump juicy tomato waving in the wind on its vine

Orange tip, sticking out of the ground,

Strong, so strong the carrot

Tomatoes are red or green.

Tomatoes blend with leaves

when green.

The basil was very strong—

Smell and taste!

I saw the garden,

The potato leaves looked green and funny

And tomatoes were still green

It looked like the onions were popping out of the ground

That's what I saw in the garden

Dark yellow tip

Strong root

Zucchini, big center

I saw a flower

And I can smell it too

I feel the petals

On a cabbage tree

is, of course, cabbage for free,

and small Brussels sprouts, which

I would like to taste—right now.

sweet stevia

purple cabbage

tall beans

bright flowers

small parsley

In a pod

Small and green

Sugar snap peas