To apply for membership:
SINGLE – $20 COUPLE – $25 GENERAL MEETINGS
MEETINGS are usually held the 4th Monday of the month September to November and January to June at the Lethbridge Public Library Theatre Gallery, 810 – 5th Avenue South. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m.
MEMBERSHIPS are valid from October 1 to September 30 and are available at any in-person meeting, etransfers to: memberships.ldhs@gmail.com or by paper cheque mailed to P O Box 11, Lethbridge, AB T1J 3Y3
Contact: Joyce Ross, joyceross2013@gmail.com
P.O. Box 11, Lethbridge, AB, T1J 3Y3
LethbridgeHortSociety@yahoo.ca
To donate to the Hort Society’s new project, Legacy Ornamental Gardens: https://wp.me/P8hYxd-2T
Here’s a brief history of the Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society, as presented by BJ Boulton-Gunn to a Commmunities in Bloom luncheon.
October 25, 2021
Board, elected at AGM
President: Rick Ross
Directors:
Paul Stevenson – Vice President
Dianne Violini – Treasurer
Judy Matlock – Secretary/Newsletter
Joyce Ross – Memberships
Rhondda Schindeler – Director at Large
Adam Morstad – Director at Large
Linda Richards – Director at Large
Richard Burke – Director at Large, richburke45@gmail.com Website, Facebook
Tom Scott – Director at Large
Hi there,
I’m moving to Lethbridge from White Rock BC, in early August. I Love to make my own vegetable and herb garden and am wondering whether there are any of the above, including root vegetables that I can plant in August? Or will a potential frost kill them in Sept.?
Any advice? Would an above ground planter work? Or could I plant ground level?
Thank you so much!
Lara
Hi Lara,
This unbelievably tardy response to your question shows I have not been doing my job. Hope you will eventually see this. If you were hoping for a fall harvest, you could plant annual herbs–chervil seems to be growing all the time in my garden. But August is too late for nearly all veggies. Maybe peas, spinach and kale–crops that can take some cold–would develop before we have a killing frost. Few plantings are done in the fall here. Even daffodils need to be in the ground by mid Sept for them to set enough roots for good spring growth. Garlic planted in the fall grows very successfully, and many people fall seed greens such as spinach, mesclun mix, lettuces and some annual herbs.
Hope you will have successful gardening experiences in 2017. If you come to a Hort Society meeting, please introduce yourself to me.
Penny