Our July 17th meeting was our annual Photo Contest reveal. The pictures that our own members take were stunning and you’d enjoy seeing landscapes, master gardener projects, small gardens, specimen plants and wildlife. Our judge, Eric Bowles, said he really loved all the entries this year. Eric is an Atlanta based Nature photographer specializing in the Southeastern United States. His work has been published in magazines, newspapers and commercial publications. He critiqued each of the photo entries and gave hints on how they could have been improved. Enjoy these pictures — Presentation

Spring has sprung and summer is coming fast.  Most of our spring crops are done and replaced with warm weather vegetables.  We pulled out or finished broccoli, collards, radishes, sugar snap peas and potatoes.  Currently we’re picking carrots, swiss chard, romaine, kohlrabis, turnips, beets, onions, garlic, bell peppers, jalapenos, parsley and zucchini.  Sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, bush beans, pole beans, basil and butternut squash are growing.  Blackberries have started along the fence and the bushes are loaded.  The few blueberries that survived the freezes this spring are starting to turn color.  I’d be interested in hearing what everyone else is growing. We’ve had some real successes with our workdays.  Brad arranged for 6 Gwinnett volunteers to come out on a workday and were they hard workers!  We also had a boy scout troop come out.  We arranged a cucumber planting project for them to take home but they…