Getting Ready for Spring! The Lincoln Garden Club is having their biennial Plant Sale on Saturday May 13th. It will be held at Station Park this year, at the corner of Lincoln Rd and Ridge Road, across from the Post office. The plant sale will run from 11am - 2pm.
The plants sold come from our members’ gardens, parks we maintain, and from generous donors around town. If you have plants to donate, please contact me. There will also be garden paraphernalia for sale. We’ll even have a few handmade bluebird nesting boxes for sale which you could set up right away and maybe catch a second laying! We will have some native plugs ordered through commercial nurseries. These are very small and will need babying in a pot or well tended garden plot. Eryngium yuccifolium: Rattlesnake master Polemonium reptans: Jacob’s ladder Packera aurea: Golden Ragwort available after 6/19 Aquilegia canadensis: Eastern red columbine available on or after 5/19 The plant sale is always a fun time to share plant knowledge and see friends. We will have some snacks in Station Park and you can tour our flagship garden. The garden club first heard about jumping worms in 2020 and then we had a really wet spring in 2021. There was an explosion of reports to the state of Massachusetts of jumping worm activity. The one good thing about them is that they die each winter and hatch from eggs in the spring. A telling sign is a significant pile of castings that look like coffee grounds were dumped on the lawn or garden. Last year was very dry so there was little evidence of the worms. Many garden club members have seen jumping worm activity on their property. If you have not, please don’t purchase plants from the sale. We don’t want to spread these critters. If someone offers you a plant that you can’t resist, the best plan is to shake off the soil and rinse the roots until clean. Eggs are the size of a poppyseed. If there is not enough rainfall, the eggs will remain until next year. Jumping worms cross roads on a hot summer day, climb trees, and travel quickly up through the bottom of pots. Belinda 781-577-7004
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