upcoming event

FREE EVENT — OPEN HOUSE

Date: Saturday, March 28, Noon to 2:00 pm

Location: Ode to Joy building

Dahlia Presentation: 1:00 pm 

As you prepare to start rearing seedlings for the upcoming garden season, you won't want to miss The Garden Club of Kent's Seed Swap & Dahlia Tuber Swap on Saturday, March 28 from 12 noon to 2:00 p.m. in the Ode to Joy building on our Ravenna Rd. property. This open-house event is free and open to the public, so bring your friends and family members. No registration is necessary. Come early for the best selection.

Seed Swap and Seed Giveaways

If you have seeds to swap, please bring them to the event to share with other seed swappers. But we aren't just swapping seeds — we're also giving seeds away! The club acquired a huge donation of Ferry-Morse seed packets at the end of last summer. Over the winter, members of the Gardens and Conservation committees have stored the seeds appropriately and will bring them out of hiding to give away. 

Each attendee is welcome to take five packets of seeds, which will be organized on tables by category — tomatoes, peppers, greens, beans, flowers, herbs and much more. 

Dahlias Swap, Sale and Demo Workshop

The event also includes a dahlia tuber swap and sale. Dahlias are gorgeous, but some gardeners are daunted by or at least unfamiliar with how to grow dahlias and care for the tubers. 

Barb Gedeon of Josiah Lincoln Clouser Flower Farm in Peninsula will present a demo on dahlias at 1:00 pm. She will cover the full growing cycle. You'll learn how to acquire tubers; plant and tend them over the summer; split the tubers at the end of the growing season; and store them over winter for the next year.

Barb will have tubers to sell at the event. This ardent flower fan works with Josiah Lincoln Clouser Flower Farm and has been selling flower bouquets at the Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market.  

If you have questions, contact us at BackyardPest@gmail.com