Plants flourish among friends

from Scripps Ranch News - March 2023

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By Denise Stewart

At the Scripps-Mesa Garden Club meeting, Master Gardener Shital Parikh shared her experience with growing a robust garden for more than 20 years right here in Scripps Ranch.

Hearing about her success with companion planting and crop rotation and how they maximized the yield of her garden while managing pests and increasing soil nutrients was an enlightening presentation.

Planting certain vegetables together makes for a better crop, according to Shital. Rotating the location of plant families around the garden when done across a sequence of growing seasons makes for more abundant crops and richer soil, she said.

Garden Club members meet at the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Community Room most months on the fourth Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. There is usually a short business

Garden Share

Continued from Page 6 age the invitations and flyers for the events. The seed library there has a catalog of seeds that can be easily accessed and used. We trust that this community will make the best use of this opportunity, and look meeting, then a talk by an experienced gar dener, followed by a plant share. Some meetings feature a garden tour. Two gardeners’ crop celebration potlucks are also held each year. forward to meeting and sharing everything with those who live and grow here.

For more news about the club and gardening information, check the website scrippsmesagardenclub.com.

Currently, the members are collecting photos of the abundant array of wildflowers that this rainy season has given us. The photos are being posted on the website.

Upcoming event:

On April 15, at 1:30 p.m., Denise Bienias will tell us all about bees and perhaps even show us some of their behavior. This will also be

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in the Community Room at the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library.

Sustainable Scripps Ranch is a standing committee of the Scripps Ranch Civic Association. To learn more about Sustainable Scripps Ranch, visit scrippsranch. org/ssr or email SustainableSR@scrippsranch.org.

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