The TJMS Community Garden 2025 Season is Under Way.
The TJMS Community Garden has been a Plot Against Hunger participant for over a decade, donating produce to AFAC and other local food pantries. The Jefferson Community Garden is the largest school garden in Arlington, and we are taking our community responsibilities seriously. But more than that, we are working to become a hub for joyful community and learning. Have you ever thought of starting your own garden, but you feel a little overwhelmed? Volunteering with our experienced gardeners is a great way to learn more about starting a garden, managing pests and diseases, and how to plan for seasonal harvests. A sunny Saturday morning in the garden is a great family activity, and it's the perfect place to meet friends to socialize while volunteering and getting a bit of fresh air and exercise.
Bring Friends or Family and Join Us in the Garden:
We would love you to join us in the garden. We have regular garden workdays every week from 10 AM to noon Saturday mornings. Not quite ready to start gardening today? Sign up for our newsletter and we'll send you weekly updates about our workday plans, and pictures of what we're doing in the garden.
Stay tuned to our Facebook page for late-breaking schedule updates and weather cancellations.
Garden videos:
Our native asters and goldenrod. A veritable 🐝 ...
At first, we thought someone had gifted us a hawk ...
A pollinator garden full of blooms, but this butte...
You know you’re a gardener when getting a tr...
We are planting at full speed this morning. Squash is done, and peppers and zucchini are halfway planted already. Great volunteers make the work go fast. 💕🍅🌶️ ... See MoreSee Less
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Where do you get your seedlings from?
It’s a lovely cool (slightly damp) morning, and we are out here ready to plant our first round of zucchini, squash, peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes. Join us! @afacfeeds @arlingtonfoua ... See MoreSee Less
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Sugar snap peas reaching for the sky! We got all of the peas tied up, so they’re ready to hit a growth spurt. Sugar snaps do better in cool weather, so we planted half of them early this year to try to get a longer harvest before they wilt in the heat. Did you know that snap pea shoots are edible as well as the pods? If we need to thin them, we can put them in a salad or stir fry. #schoolgarden #spring #snappeas ... See MoreSee Less
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Very tasty
Baby potatoes from the @arlingtonfoua seed potato offering. We have them planted in a raised bed with loose soil for better root vegetable growing conditions. Check back later to see how big they get! ... See MoreSee Less
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Special FOUA Workday 9-noon Saturday to plant summer vegetables. Join us in the garden! ... See MoreSee Less
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Wish I could join, my allergies are terrible right now! 🤧
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Saturday 10-Noon ... See MoreSee Less
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Saturday Garden Workday CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN.
SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ... See MoreSee Less
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Squash and tomatoes getting closer to ready for the garden. We hope to plant half at the end of April, and half a couple of weeks later to minimize frost risk. ... See MoreSee Less
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Saturday’s community volunteers weeded, mulched, processed compost, and tied up our baby pea shoots to our trellis. Thanks for coming out to work in the garden with us! #schoolgarden #plotagainsthunger #volunteer #compost #peas ... See MoreSee Less
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Garden Club volunteers planted potatoes, marigolds, and zinnia seeds on Friday. Also have a sneak peek of our lettuce (getting close to harvest), bluebells, and exploding elderberry population. If you want some elderberry, let us know— it grows like mint and we will be digging out a lot to keep it contained in the next few weeks. #schoolgarden #volunteer #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden ... See MoreSee Less
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Our baby tomatoes, peppers, squash, and zucchini are growing strong. We will be planting them in about a month. ... See MoreSee Less
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Thanks to our volunteers who are setting up rain barrels and planting spring vegetables in this lovely cool weather until noon today. Come check us out! #schoolgarden #springgarden ... See MoreSee Less
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We are in the garden AND at the Plot Against Hunger spring kickoff today! ... See MoreSee Less
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It was sooo fun!
Join us Saturday morning for our volunteer workday, 10-noon. ... See MoreSee Less
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Last year we lost our whole crop of blackberries in about three days when the canes succumbed to a fungal blight. We cut them back hard, cleaned the area to remove diseased plant material, and now we are hoping for a comeback. If you’ve got organic tips for treating blight on blackberries, we would love to hear it. #blackberry #organicgardening #schoolgarden #diseaseprevention #fungal ... See MoreSee Less
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A few years ago we planted vetch as a nitrogen-fixing cover crop, and it’s still coming back around the edges. Soon it will be covered in bright pink flowers. #schoolgarden #covercrop ... See MoreSee Less
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It’s asparagus season in the school garden. Come by this morning and take a peek. We will be working until noon. ... See MoreSee Less
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$16 for probably close to 50 plants— we found Swiss chard, collards, spinach, and kale at a local hardware store for $4 for a 4-pack and up-potted them instead of thinning them. In a week or two we will harden them off and plant them outside. Due to the hard winter, our over-wintered greens seeds yielded tiny seedlings that are only a few centimeters high and this will fill them out a bit, in addition to the indoor-seeded lettuce and cabbage we planted last week. ... See MoreSee Less
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Worms, doodle-bugs, and mulch, oh my! It’s the first day of garden club, and we had so much fun. #schoolgarden #gardenclub #plotagainsthunger #springgarden ... See MoreSee Less
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The weather is looking great for this Saturday. Bring a friend and get your community action volunteering and socializing in one sunny weekend morning, Saturday 10-noon. ... See MoreSee Less
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