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While summer may be over, Ashburton is still heat ing up. In the weeks to come, Ashburton will host its Fall Harvest, several Fall Beautification initiatives, a festive Holiday Party (General Body Meeting), and our Joy Carter Holiday Spirit Award. I encourage you and your family to join us in celebrating the season.
Our Association works hard at advocating for the welfare of our community and at hosting quality events for everyone. To continue to do so, we need your financial support. Annual Association dues are $30 per household. Please mail your payment (cash or check) to P.O. Box 67132, Baltimore, MD 21215, pay electronically via PayPal using ashburton21215@ gmail.com, or contact me at 410-382-0877 to make special arrangements.
As a final note, Ashburton’s strength lies in its people. Let’s all be great neighbors by looking out for those around us and by contributing to the beauty and safety of our little corner of the world.
Your Neighbor, Arnold Foster, Jr.
Fall is a great time to get out in the garden to protect your investment and prepare for spring. You can plant new varieties, and clean up and maintain your existing garden to ensure healthy growth next season. We’re here to help with a fall gardening checklist.
Once your perennials have died back (you’ll know in a glance when they turn brown), cut back any dead growth to give the plants a fresh start for the spring. You can leave some flower varieties standing, such as Echi nacea and Black Eyed Susans, to create a food source for birds. Any plants that are left up over winter can be cut back in Spring to make way for new growth.
Did you know that in most cases, fall is actually a much better time to plant than spring? And we’re not just talking about fall-planted bulbs either! As nights length en and days begin to cool off, the soil is still quite warm, providing a wonderful environment for plants to focus on root growth rather than putting energy into spring foliage and flower.
3. Plant Cover Crops To Protect & Enrich Your Soil Cover crops can perform a wide range of jobs to improve your garden soil. Are you looking to add nitrogen, fight pests, or stabilize erosion-prone soils?
4. Divide Mature Perennials
Perennials such as Daylilies and Bearded Iris can be divided in the fall and either moved, or given away to lucky gardening friends!
5. Protect Sensitive Plants
If you have cold-sensitive plants in the garden bed, protect them with a layer of mulch or natural cloth.
If you have cold-sensitive plants in containers, bring them indoors to enjoy during the winter months.
Hello Neighbors,
Recently, the Chesapeake Bay Trust awarded Ashbur ton a grant to plant a variety of fruit trees and flowering shrubs along Callaway Ave nue.
The great news about the Ur ban Tree Program that it will reenergize the next phase of beautifying the Calloway median, but not without your help!
We invite you to join neighbors and other volunteers Sunday, November 6th from 2pm to 4pm for an afternoon of planting, pruning and mulching fruit trees on Calloway Avenue. Here’s why it’s important:
4 Projects like this create community by bringing together multi-generational volunteers who want to preserve beautiful trees and shrubs on this joint entry way that Ashburton and Callaway-Garrison neighbors share.
4 The trees we plan to plant - Sweet Bay Magnolia, Crabapple, Redbud, American Persimmon, Hazelnut, Red Twig Dogwood, Clethra and Cherry Birch - will help our continued transformation of the area into a point of pride.
4 Trees are important to our renown historic neighborhoods. They help to clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, preserve soil and support wildlife.
4 Your participation in planting and caring for our trees will further unite our two neighborhoods, foster peace, cooperation and a love of place.
Please sign up by clicking
link: https://ashburton1920.org/urban-tree-program or call 410-458-0827 to participate in the planting event on Sunday, November 6th from 2pm-4pm.
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