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Toowoomba Community Organic Gardens

Locality: Toowoomba, Queensland

Address: 22A Goggs Street 4350 Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Website: https://tcogardens.wordpress.com

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25.01.2022 Seedling Sales We have a selection of in-season vegetable seedlings for sale $2 for a punnet BARGAIN! Wednesdays and Sundays at the TCOGA

25.01.2022 Another hot day in the gardens for our TCC volunteers. Students got to plant some beans and zucchini today. The work they have done over the last two days has been so helpful. A wonderful group of young people.

25.01.2022 I think we will get through the mulch pile in time for the councils next delivery.

24.01.2022 Spring is here!

24.01.2022 One of our hard working members working with a friend of the garden who was generously passing on her knowledge to help us improve our worm farm. Thank you to Councillor Carol Taylor who came to visit us this morning to see the progress we have made this year.

24.01.2022 Borage and sunflowers attract pollinators when they are in flower. These companion plants attract beneficial insects and birds, among other benefits; but for humans they also provide a pleasant visual experience.

23.01.2022 One of the many benefits of our gardens is that it is a Bird-Friendly Community where you can watch a variety of our feathered friends by taking photos or recording their beautiful singing. But also they help us as organic insect controllers, just like this elegant Currawong, who just grabbed its lunch from one of the plots

22.01.2022 It was great to finally plant the 30 native plants the council donated to us by the TRC. They will fill up the native garden area with colour as well as attract some more birds and bees to our garden.

22.01.2022 October 2020 issue of Growing Naturally, the Newsletter of the TCOGA https://tcogardens.files.wordpress.com//october-newsletter

22.01.2022 Plants For Sale 23 September 9am - 12pm See you at ‘Spring in the Gardens’ TCOF EventPlants For Sale 23 September 9am - 12pm See you at ‘Spring in the Gardens’ TCOF Event

21.01.2022 Thanks to all our plot holders who are enriching soils and mulching ready for the spring seedlings. Looking after the soil is the key to a healthy garden plot.

20.01.2022 Our native raspberry is bearing fruit again. See if you can find this berry in your local nursery: it is delicious. By next week the berries should have turned a lovely shade of pink.

20.01.2022 Unfortunately the weeds love the rain too. Made a start on some seeding along pathways on Permaculture area. Still heaps more to do and there will be more weed growth next Wednesday. Focus for next Wednesday morning could be weeding in the permaculture area and along pathways.

19.01.2022 Hi Gardeners, in this link you can find the November 2020 issue of our newsletter Growing Naturally: https://tcogardens.files.wordpress.com//november-newslette

19.01.2022 Due to weather forecast for this weekend we have rescheduled are Future Directions of the Gardens Planning Discussion & our Pizza lunch to Sunday November 1.Due to weather forecast for this weekend we have rescheduled are Future Directions of the Gardens Planning Discussion & our Pizza lunch to Sunday November 1.

18.01.2022 A great discussion about the future directions of the gardens this morning. After all that talking we got stuck into some delicious wood fired pizzas.

17.01.2022 The growth in the gardens over the last week has been amazing. This grapevine only had a few leaves on it last Sunday.

16.01.2022 Hoping for some more rain - many of our recent plantings were in desperate need of water this morning.

15.01.2022 We don’t mind sharing but it is very disappointing when the whole plant is taken.

15.01.2022 Sorting out the compost bin system.

15.01.2022 Growing Naturally: Newsletter of the Toowoomba Community Organic Gardens Association Inc.; in this link you can find the latest issue: https://tcogardens.files.wordpress.com//september-newslett

14.01.2022 Productive morning in the gardens. Managed to move a little more of our mulch pile. Still need more rain - you don’t have to dig far to find dry soil.

14.01.2022 It was all systems go at the gardens this morning. We got the mulcher going - thanks to Ken’s expertise. The Clifford Park Special School students very kindly gave us a hand to reduce the great mulch pile by spreading it in the permaculture area.

13.01.2022 Our community plots are doing well and provide some nutritious and affordable organic produce to share with our members.

12.01.2022 Lovely morning at the gardens. Great to see the rain. Great team work and a focus on one area allowed us to accomplish a lot in a couple of hours.

11.01.2022 Working Bee at Toowoomba Community Organic Gardens (TCOGA), Sunday, 29 November 2020, from 7.30 am to 11.30 am. Looking forward to seeing you there!

11.01.2022 Great turn out this morning working in various parts of the gardens. Always nice to work in cooler weather. Fingers crossed for some rain.

11.01.2022 Summer Social Gardening Times. There will still be social gardening mornings over the Christmas break, on Wednesday and Sunday mornings.

10.01.2022 It was the last Open Day for our TCOF Spring in the Gardens event today and we were pleased to welcome more visitors to our gardens today. Thank you to all who came through and bought plants and donated to our Community Garden.

08.01.2022 Hope to see you all at our Spring in the Gardens TCOF event which will be held this coming Saturday and next Wednesday. There will be seedlings and plants for sale.

08.01.2022 Just a very small sample of the seedlings we will have for sale at our ‘Spring in the Gardens’ TCOF event. See you at the gardens next Sunday.

08.01.2022 Just as we were packing up today the council delivered the mulch we have been asking for. Hoping to get a lot of members turn up to help out at the working bee on Sunday. Rest assured there will also be lighter tasks to do.

07.01.2022 One of our Plot holders very proud of her cauliflower. The secret could be ‘land cress’ which is a companion plant for brassicas. It helps to deter the moths.

07.01.2022 Getting the pizza oven ready for our Planning Session and pizza lunch next Sunday.

06.01.2022 So lovely to be in the gardens after some much needed rain. The growth over the last few days is amazing. One of our Plot Holders will be having some delicious tomatoes soon.

06.01.2022 Some more great produce from our community veggie plots for our members to share.

05.01.2022 Just some of the produce we harvested from the community gardens this morning.

04.01.2022 Our plant sales went very well this morning. We still have more stock available for sale next Wednesday at our 'Spring in the Gardens' event TCOF events (9am - midday). See you there.

03.01.2022 A big thankyou to the Peacehaven volunteers who showed us through the nursery facility which is run by dedicated volunteers. It gave us much food for thought for our development of our 3 - 5 year plan for the gardens.

03.01.2022 We made some in roads into the huge mulch pile this morning.

03.01.2022 So lovely to see some rain in the gardens this morning. Things seemed to green up instantly. Hoping for more rain on the weekend.

03.01.2022 Why do shop-bought strawberries look so white ( and usually tasteless) when those are the Gardens are red, sweet and tasty?

03.01.2022 A very special gardening enthusiast visted us at our 'Spring in the Gardens' event today. She informed us that she turned 90 years of age a couple of days ago. Happy Birthday from the TCOGA.

02.01.2022 A praying mantis came to visit at the gardens. I think he was trying to thank the Toowoomba Christian College students who came and volunteered their time in the gardens today. They did an amazing job of weeding on such a very hot day.

02.01.2022 A great morning in the gardens today. Our "Spring in the Gardens' TCOF event was very successful. So lovely to see so many visitors enjoying this very special place.

02.01.2022 The permaculture culture area is looking great thanks to the sugar cane mulch provided by the TRC.

02.01.2022 We have a kaffir lime tree at the Gardens and the limes are beginning to grow too. The leaves (note the different shape) are used extensively in Asian cooking and the limes can be eaten too. They have some medicinal properties.