Please join us October 19 at the Omemee Legion.

Door open 6:30 for a Social Half Hour. Meeting starts at 7pm.

Don’t forget to Lug-A-Mug.          Visitors are Welcome -$5 

Monthly Competition: Anything from your Garden that Jack Frost hasn’t damaged.

 Winter Sowing

Discover the benefits of starting seeds outdoors in the fall or winter vs. indoors. In this session, you will learn all about the winter sowing process—from determining appropriate species for sowing, to choosing the best starting medium and types of growing containers.

Big Ass Garlic has been in existence for over 30 years providing the best Ontario Garlic at affordable prices.

Evolving over the years, Big Ass Garlic has developed and perfected a multitude of associated products all featuring garlic. They sell gourmet garlic BBQ sauces, mustard, relish, pickled garlic, beans, and asparagus.

Jim will be bringing garlic with him to sell.

Please join us September 21 at the Omemee Legion. Door open 6:30 for a Social Half Hour. Meeting starts at 7pm.

Don’t forget to Lug-A-Mug.

Visitors are Welcome -$5 

Please join us on Monday, August 17th at the Cutting Gardens of our member Lucille Fowler.

Lucille will welcome us at 6:30pm in Lindsay at her home located at 7 Ridgewood Road, Kawartha Lakes (near the Lindsay Ex grounds)

Please bring a lawn chair if you would like to visit for a while. Omemee Blooms will provide some refreshments.

Consider riding with a friend as parking may be limited.

For $15, you can cut some flowers to bring home in a mason jar. 

Check out her Facebook account; Lucille’s Blossoms.

Omemee Legion – Doors Open 6:30 Social Time      Meeting Start 7pm

Monthly Flower Competition: “A Stem From A Flowering Shrub”

Lug-A-Mug & Door Prizes

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Rachel started looking more closely at herbs after her husband was diagnosed with heart disease and therefore had to cut out salt and eat more healthily.

Rachel will concentrate on some of the different herbs that are easy to grow and make a delicious addition to our meals. She will bring along some of her plants for people to touch and smell. She will cover growing conditions; most herbs are pretty easy to grow and most bugs don’t bother them due to their strong scent and flavour. Harvesting is important; the right time and storage.

She will discuss cooking with herbs; her most favorite, enjoyable part.

A few copies of recipes that she uses all the time will be available. Rachel will have lots of ideas for the best way to use them to spark up your meals. She plans to have a couple of samples to taste.

At the Omemee Legion – Members free, Membership $25.00, Guests $5.00 

Start is at 7:00 pm, doors open 6:30 pm

Come on out and join in the fun…..

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Lucille has been with the Lindsay Garden Club over 15 years and is a second generation member after her parents.  She is also a member of the Omemee Blooms Garden Club. 

Lucille graduated from the Canadian Floral Academy and worked in a floral department in Lindsay.  After that she started her our home business, Fowler’s Flowers and that turned into Lucille’s Window Treatments. Now retired, she is growing cut flowers and selling bouquets on her roadside stand.

Lucille starts hundreds of flowers by seed in her two sunrooms, as well as she starts around a 100 dahlias inside her rooms. Which means, standing room only!

You can find her on Facebook and Instagram under Lucille’s Blossoms.

At the Omemee Legion – Members free, Membership $25.00, Guests $5.00 

Start is at 7:00 pm, doors open 6:30 pm

Come on out and join in the fun…..

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Cauleen Viscoff: I’m a reformed rose killer.

…but I’m also an award-winning artist and gardener, a veteran rose grower, author & Master Gardener; so you’d think I’d have figured out how to prune roses.

But in reality, my compost heap enjoyed more roses than my garden.
I had to figure it out for myself.

Rose books are full of glorious photos with a few fuzzy ones attempting to show how to prune them.

And the videos? Oh my… fast and furious with much mumbling, bees humming and the creaking of old leather gloves amid clipping noises; all drowned out by birdsong. Most distressing of all? The experts kept contradicting one another. I was so frustrated and I wasn’t alone.

It took me a few long snowy winters inside and some experimental summers out in the garden to figure it all out.
I dissected the videos and all that text and then sketched each step so I could actually understand what the experts wanted us to know. This way I could see exactly what all that clipping was about and thought if it answered my questions, it might answer some of yours, so I hope sharing it with you takes some of the mystery out of it.