March Society General Meeting + Speaker: Ron Lewis

Join us for our next public meeting at the Parkside Centre on Durham Street in Sudbury. Doors open at 1:15 pm for socializing and light refreshments. Please bring your own coffee mug or travel mug.

The meeting at 2 pm will feature guest speaker Ron Lewis with his presentation on “Tending the Six-Month Northern Vegetable Garden”.

For many gardeners in Greater Sudbury and area, the vegetable garden ends with clean-up on the long, Labour-Day weekend in early September. True, some great treats (such as the best of tomatoes) are only available in the warm summer months. But as we move more seriously toward the 100 km (or is it 100 m) local food should not overlook the cool-season vegetables, especially as, notwithstanding climate change, northerners have their share of cool (some would say ‘cold’) weather. This presentation explores growing some beloved vegetables that not only thrive in cool weather but actually give their best only when grown in cool weather, avoiding the stress of summer heat (remember, summer heat?).

About Ron Lewis:

Ron is a long-time member of the Sudbury Horticultural Society, and has reveled in entering vegetables and fruits he has grown into the annual SHS competition in August. Although well-known as a grower of winter-hardy fruit trees, bushes, and vines, he considers himself an organic gardener who also grows fruit. With a background in gardening and teaching, each for several decades in Greater Sudbury, he likes nothing better than sharing his gardening ideas with others through PowerPoint presentations, hands-on workshops, and tours of his home garden; dozens of times for each of the first two, and literally hundreds of times for the last. Aside from several presentations to the SHS over the years, Ron has also presented to other horticultural societies in Ontario, and twice to the Ontario Horticultural Association (OHA).