Maumee Valley Herb Society

It is almost time for the Spring Plant Sale. We will be looking for you at the Toledo Botanical Garden where the Maumee Valley Herb Society will have more than two hundred different herbs for sale. Here is the list of herbs that will be available. You can print this list and bring it with you. Our members will be happy to help you decide which herbs to plant in your garden and to answer any questions that you may have about herbs. We will also have our cookbook, Herbal Market, and our Herb Charts for sale. These will give you ideas about using many popular culinary herbs. While you are there, visit our used book sale for bargains on herb books. The sale begins on Thursday, May 7, with a preview for TBG members only. The public is invited to come Friday through Sunday, May 8,9,and 10 from ten am to five pm each day. See you there. Hope you can find lots of herbs you want to buy, I know I will!

Location Change: Our May meeting will be on Wednesday, May 20, in the Living Room of the Manor House at Wildwood Preserve Metropark from 9:30 am until noon. The topic will be “Creative Herb Gardening” and the speaker will be Cathy Manus-Gray. Come and join us to learn how creativity applies to herb gardening. All of our meetings are open to the public.

Tuesday, April 14, is our first scheduled Tuesday in the herb garden in 2009. We begin working at 9:30 am. Thiswill be a cleanup day. We have garden tools for you to use to rake leaves, etc to help uncover the herbs that are beginning to peek through the soil. We also need to trim plants and ask that you bring your pruners and a kneeling pad to make this a more comfortable task for you. Come and help us. There is a lot to be accomplished on this day, and also on all of the following Tuesdays throughout the growing season. we will welcome your help during any or all of these Tuesday mornings.

Our April meeting will be on Wednesday morning, April 15, at 9:30 am in the conference center at the Toledo Botanical Garden. Matt Ross, Horticulturist at TBG, will speak about “Designing a Garden Good Enough to Eat”. Come and join us and learn how to adapt his ideas to your own garden.

Our March meeting is on Tuesday, March 17 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm in the Conference Center of the Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive in Toledo, Ohio. The topic is “Native Plants in the Area” and the speaker is Jan Hunter from the Naturally Native Nursery. Come and join us and learn what our native plants are and how to grow and care for them.

Our social hour is from 9:30-10:00. At ten, Vicky Gallagher, the horticulturist from 577 in Perrysburg will speak about “Victory Gardens Yesterday and Today”. This talk will bring back memories for many of us about victory gardens during and after World War II. We will also hear ideas for planning our own gardens for this year. Come and join us in the Conference Center at the Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive, Toledo, Ohio.