Category Archives: Planting

Enbridge Gas volunteer group Sep 23, 2025

Community and Corporate Groups in The Garden This Year

April 21, 2026: Walt Disney Canada – Thank you to Grace, Abby and Dayna for braving the cold and rescuing the garlic, asparagus, snow peas, radish and spinach.    …

Planting snow peas

Planting Days

Planting for the 2026 season has begun, but very slowly. We have winter sowed flowers, kale, collard greens and leeks but are still waiting for those seeds to germinate. In…

Winter Sown Containers

Cold Weather Seeds Are Started!

Welcome to the 2026 season!  Volunteers braved the icy weather recently for winter sowing. Winter sowing is the practice of planting seeds in translucent containers and leaving them outside in the snow…

Volunteers working in the garden

Want to Volunteer?

Interested in volunteering at our garden? If you are new to the garden and want to receive emails about volunteer workshifts, please send an email to [email protected]. We work in…

Winter Sown Containers

Sow It Begins!

Our first volunteer work party of the 2025 season took place on Sunday, February 16th. A large group of volunteers braved knee high snow to winter sow cabbage, lettuce, leeks, kale,…

2024 Year End Volunteer Celebration

2024 Season Ends

We completed our final clean up of the 2024 garden, and then celebrated the season with our volunteers. Delectable dishes were contributed by volunteers, featuring garden produce where we could….

Picture of produce that has been harvested

What We Harvest and Where It Goes

At Parkview Neighbourhood Garden, we split our produce between local food charities, and our volunteers and neighbours. Starting in May, we harvest directly for donation to local not-for-profit organizations such…

Empty strings fro our tomato trellis

End of Season 2023

Parkview Neighbourhood Garden concluded yet another successful season. Thanks to our 40+ volunteers of all ages, we grew enough this year to directly donate 470 lbs of food to neighbourhood…

Time for Tomatillos!

By Liz Carman, PNG Volunteer We are growing a large number of tomatillos at Parkview Neighbourhood Garden, and our volunteer Liz is a real afficianado. She harvested and canned up some…

Leaves spread on garden beds for winter

End of 2022 Season

Our last volunteer event in the garden was October 30, 2022.  We harvested our remaining jerusalem artichokes and prepared our garlic for fall planting.  We ended with a celebration pot…