May 3rd: Earth Day Festival 2025

Join The Framingham Garden Club at the Earth Day Festival on the Framingham Common  

If you couldn’t make it on April 26th, the event was rescheduled to MAY 3rd so don’t miss out! 

Join us on Saturday May 3rd 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.  

Join the Framingham Garden Club at The Earth Day Festival and explore educational programs perfect families and children.  We’ll be providing Pollinator Education and kicking off our annual Community Giving Garden program!

Community Giving Garden: It’s not too late!!

Register now to receive a free vegetable garden starter kit!  Kits are limited, so please register in advance by completing this form.  

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SAVING SEEDS

Late Fall is Time for Seed Saving!

 

Why?

You can preserve specific varieties of garden plants…..

that you enjoy …. that do well for you…. that are becoming rare.

You can easily pass these varieties along to friends.

And – you can save money: you won’t need to buy as many seeds next spring!

 

What?

Many garden flowers and vegetables have seeds that are very easy to save,

Some of the easiest flowers include….

    Cleome (spider plant)                     marigolds                    hollyhocks                   poppies

    morning glories                               Cosmos                       Zinnia              Nasturtium

….and anything that has a nice dry seed head or pod, such as Lunaria (money plant/silver dollar/honesty)

 

You can also save the seeds of a variety of herbs and vegetables (note: these must be ripe or the seeds will be immature and will not germinate), such as…..…

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