Prepping, planting, picking

City Hall garden April 28, 2026

We have a good start now on both gardens thanks to many new and veteran volunteers. (Join us!)

CITY HALL: We've started spreading compost on some of the beds and have some things in the ground, including seeds planted last week that are starting to come up and plants we put in at Tuesday's garden time. We still have more to do, but, with the plants--from seeds started by UWL students in March and donated by Todd and Cathy--now populating some of the beds, it's starting to look like a garden. The garlic is up and looking great. We'll harvest it in July! We could use some donated herbs and flowers abd/or someone to manage that bed.

APTIV: Friday we'll put in the cabbages, cauliflower, and broccoli plants plus more onions and some kohlrabi. Spinach planted in fall and earlier this spring is ready to be picked at Aptiv!

We always welcome new garden friends!

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 from 8 to 9 a.m. at Aptiv

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 from 5 to 6 p.m.at City Hall

Thank you UWL students!

Last month Sue D and Cathy VM met with Karen Skemp's UWL class on Food and Security. We talked about the Victory Gardens and students helped us plant some seeds fir broccoli , cauliflower , cabbage and other veggies we'll plant out in a couple if weeks.

On April 21, those almost-30 UWL students helped kickstart our gardens, weeding beds and planting seeds and potatoes. WOW! A lot of work can get done when you have a motivated, energetic crowd!

What a great kick-off to our seventh season.

We'll continue with compost spreading and seed and seedling planting on Fridays from 8 to 9 at Aptiv and Tuesdays from 5 to 6 at City Hall.

Please join us. AND, thank yo u students!

Picture by Karen Skemp. 

See you at the LIBRARY!

We will be at the Garden Talk & Seed Swap event on Saturday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to noon at the La Crosse Public Library. Learn more here: https://www.lacrosselibrary.org/event/gardening-talk-seed-swap-45078

We plan to start group work in the gardens during the last couple of weeks of April. Stay tuned to this website for updates!