Barbara J Bromley – Sustainable Ewing Green Team

Are you looking for quality perennials, herbs, and veggies of various types for your garden this spring? The Mercer County Master Gardeners’ annual Plant Expo and Garden Market on May 3rd will feature such from top notch local area nurseries. The Master Gardeners and County Horticulturalist, Barbara Bromley, will also be on hand to answer questions and give assistance in making your selections. A secondhand sale of gently used items will also be conducted. So take this opportunity to reduce waste with a little reusing instead of buying new. The Expo will be held at the Mercer Educational Gardens this Saturday, May 3rd from 9am – 2 pm. Don’t forget to tour the gardens while you are there and catch up on all the Master Gardeners are doing. For more information see http://www.mgofmc.org/compostsite.html. The Gardens are located at the Mercer County Equestrian Center4 at 31A Federal City Road in Pennington.

Barbara J. Bromley to Speak at the May 15th Community Gardens Meeting

Please be sure to mark your calendars to attend the next monthly meeting of the Ewing Community Gardens on May 15th at the ESCC from 7 – 9 p.m. Mercer County Horticulturalist Barbara J. Bromley is our featured speaker! She will discuss soil and other related topics that will help gardeners to be successful at a community garden. She will, of course, answer any questions from the floor that come up.

For those of you who have heard Barbara speak, you know that she is a delightfully entertaining and informative lecturer. For those of you who have not, you are in for a real treat! She has been the Mercer County Horticulturalist for many years and she established and trained the Mercer County Master Gardeners. She has been a featured speaker throughout the state.

Date: May 15th
Time: 7 – 9 p.m
Location: Ewing Senior and Community Center, ESCC, Community Room

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from an expert so be sure to plan to attend.