University Heights Garden Club

10/18/2024

Are you coming to the University Heights Fall Festival tomorrow? Bring your friends and make marigold flower crowns together ✨

📅 Oct. 19th
⏰ 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
📍 Birney Joint Use Field, University Heights

We hope to see you there!

10/18/2024

University Heights Fall Harvest Festival - Oct. 19th -

We are excited to feature local farm grown produce and garden goodies, such as fresh flowers, fruits & veg, salves, skin ointments, dried flower bouquets, seeds, and more. Visit the UHGC Booth to see the pumpkins our club members & neighbors grew this season!

09/15/2024

Small batch, craft compost, locally made by your neighborhood composters. Finished compost, seed starting mix, innoculated mulch now available for home delivery or self pickup at participating neighborhood hubs.

Order using this form https://form.jotform.com/242346682567062 or go to our website www.food2soil.net

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09/15/2024

Check out all that is going on at San Carlos Community Garden this fall!

Check out our Fall line-up of Garden Education Workshops - all held on the 3rd Saturday of each month, 9:00 - 10:30. Advanced registration required: https://www.sancarloscommunitygarden.com/garden-workshops

September 21, Design and Create Your Waterwise Garden: Led by George Mercer, SCCG's visionary and award-winning landscape architect.
October 19, DIY: Pumpkin Succulent Arrangement: Led by SCCG Master Gardeners April Lowe and Celeste Pack.
November 15, Gardening Tool Care & Sharpening Workshop: Led by Master Gardener, Jake Jacobs
Allied Gardens - Del Cerro - San Carlos Happenings San Carlos Neighborhood Connection- 92119 and surrounding La Mesa Beautiful / Shrub Club

09/15/2024

09/14/2024

Looking forward to seeing y’all tomorrow at the Seed Swap!! Bring yourselves, your garden friends, extra seeds, plant cuttings, garden reference materials, garden shears, anything you no longer need to swap with garden friends!

We will be at San Carlos Community Garden from 9:00 - 11:00 AM. Parking is free and plentiful. Live music, Master Gardeners Q&A, mini-presentations on Seed Starting 101 & Composting Basics, garden shear sharpening, community garden tours, and so much more!

See y’all bright and early tomorrow at this fun, free event!

08/31/2024

GIVEAWAY ALERT! Are you signed up to attend our next Seed Swap event?! It’s on Saturday, Sept 14th from 9:00 - 11:00 AM at the beautiful San Carlos Community Garden in La Mesa/El Cajon area. To spread the word, we are giving away two Microgreen DIY Grow Kits donated by to two lucky winners! Tag some garden buds who might be interested in making new friends and swapping with fellow gardeners at our upcoming Fall Swap in the comments and share this post to your story! Two lucky gardeners will be selected on Friday, Sept 6th @ 6:00 PM PST to win one of these fabulous grow kits (wasabi & radish kits). Must be 13 or over to enter; winners pick up their kits at the swap event. This giveaway is not affiliated with Meta and we will never ask for your personal or financial info. Hope to see you all at the Seed Swap event!

08/31/2024

Fall Seed Swap - 09/14 -

This year's Fall Swap will be hosted at the beautiful San Carlos Community Garden near La Mesa/El Cajon area. Swap participant tables will be set up all throughout the garden and in paths leading around the community garden. San Carlos Community Garden 6460 Boulder Lake Avenue San Diego, CA 9211...

08/21/2024

Want to grow beautiful big onions like this one this winter? Stop by our table at the upcoming Fall Seed Swap event happening on Saturday, Sept. 14th from 9-11 AM at San Carlos Community Garden.

Registration is free. Bring anything you have that is garden related that you no longer have a need for to swap with others! will have tables for everyone to display their items around the gardens and will be offering folks tours of their beautiful space on the half hour. Live music, free tool sharpening, mini-lectures, and Q&As with . Should be a fun time!

08/14/2024

Last potatoes from this past winter’s harvest! Making up potato salad for a summertime concert in the park. Bummed that it’s the last of the season, but that means it’s time to start fall weather seeds! What are you all starting in preparation for next month’s fall seed swap?

08/13/2024

When summer is just too darn fun and you barely have time for the garden….forgot to fertilize for two months so corn ended up only 6” long 🤣 Have to be thankful for good pollination though! Planting your corn in rows of 3-4 minimum, 5” apart to create a tight block is the way to get perfectly wind pollinated ears of corn! If you find that your corn has rows or columns of kernels missing, that is likely a pollination issue. Did you know? The tassels at the tops of each corn stalk are the reproductive parts of the plant. Growing them in tight groupings will ensure that the wind knocks the tassels into neighboring silks, giving you a beautifully pollinated ear.

Going to boil these up and add them to a pasta salad to be enjoyed at the upcoming Powerhouse Park Del Mar summertime concert right on the beach. Hope you are enjoying summer harvests too! ☀️

08/12/2024

Friends! It’s time again….Fall Seed Swap is scheduled for Saturday, September 14th from 9:00-11:00 AM. This time, we will be guests of the beautiful San Carlos Community Garden, located close to La Mesa/El Cajon area! This event as always is FREE to attend and is open to all - experienced gardeners and brand new folks alike.

Bring anything you have that is garden related, or just bring yourself! Items to swap can be:

- seeds
- seedlings
- garden tools
- compost
- fertilizers
- garden made goodies
- reference books

Bring your favorite garden shears or tool to have a professional sharpen and clean your tool during the swap. Enjoy tours around during the swap event, attend one of our info sessions on Seed Starting 101 by and Composting 101 by , and stop by the Master Gardeners booth for Q&As. Live music will be featured during the swap event too!

Register to attend this fun, free event via our website: www.universityheightsgardenclub.com.

08/11/2024

Fall Seed Swap Event - Sat. Sept 14th! -

This year's Fall Swap will be hosted at the beautiful San Carlos Community Garden near La Mesa/El Cajon area. Swap participant tables will be set up all throughout the garden and in paths leading around the community garden. San Carlos Community Garden 6460 Boulder Lake Avenue San Diego, CA 9211...

08/07/2024

The last of the 2023 winter cabbage crop! Just made it into sauerkraut following the fabulous recipe from her Freeze Fresh cookbook. It’s easy to make and will be ready for taste testing in 7-14 days!

08/05/2024

Summer garden harvest for this week…beautiful red and yellow onions, garlic, habaneros, corn, sweet potatoes, basil, and cabbage. Feeling excited to get back into the kitchen again to ferment, can, and sauté up these beauties! What are you currently harvesting from your garden?

06/27/2024

The University Heights Pumpkin Grow-Along is off to the races! participants have planted their seeds in the ground and likely have sprouts by now. share with us your progress by tagging us in your picture updates!

06/08/2024

In LOVE with these garden market stones, hand painted by Kitty Brlej who had her garden featured on last weekend’s UH Garden Tour 🤩

05/24/2024

San Diego Floral Association Garden Tour
Timeless Garden Gems of University Heights Garden Club

Just a couple of weeks left!
Saturday, June 1, 2024. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tickets $30.00 each
Day of Tour $35.00.
https://sdfloral.org/garden-tour.htm

The University Heights Community Association will offer ticket holders a complimentary trolley ride to five stopping points along the tour, including Trolley Barn Park. Each stop will be at a designated canopy with complimentary water and a souvenir fan.

05/23/2024

Are you joining us next Saturday, June 1st for the University Heights Garden Tour? It is going to be magical ✨ The San Diego Floral Association has hand selected 10 gorgeous gardens within University Heights for this year’s tour, featuring flowers, fruits & veggies, fruit trees, xeriscapes, native plants, and artistic design. Ride the free trolley between gardens and enjoy live music and artwork in each of the gardens. Pick up summer seedlings, seeds, flower bouquets, herb boxes, microgreen grow kits, and more garden goodies from Trolley Barn Park when you pick up your garden tour maps.

Join us after the tour for garden inspired cocktails and mocktails at to chat with new friends about all of the gorgeous gardens you saw during the tour 🌸

Purchase your tickets from Sdfloral.org before the event for $30. Tickets purchased at the park are $35 day-of. See you there!

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Birney buzz

05/15/2024

University Heights Garden Tour - 06/01 -

Join the UH Garden Club and San Diego Floral Association on Saturday, June 1st from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM for a spectacular curated garden tour around University Heights. Participants will pick up their garden tour maps and informational brochures at the registration point and then will walk, bike, o...