We are looking forward to seeing you all at our first IN PERSON Open House Registration in four years! It is on Monday March 18 from 5:30-8:30 pm at Five Parks Depot. There will be snacks, education and activity stations, Bingo and Door Prizes! We value this time together, allowing for mixing with new and seasoned gardeners, the opportunity to share plans for garden plot set up, and gather with garden friends to kick off another season of gardeners growing community! Bring a computer or tablet and a credit card to get registered for a plot. Gardener Resources Compiled by Katie Meis, Pollinat ..read more

Thank you all for joining us for another productive season of gardeners growing community. We look forward to seeing everyone who can join us in 2024! Check out our 2023 Rose Roots Garden Memories Slideshow Here. Here is a brief 2023 End of Season Survey to provide your valued feedback for our improvement as a community. Please provide your feedback by December 15, 2023 to support our planning for next season. Here is a brief Intent to Garden with Rose Roots in 2024 Form to let us know if you will be returning next season or not. This form will be available until Dec 15, 2023 at which point w ..read more

As we wrap up a wonderful garden season, we invite you to you check out some season memories HERE in our 2023 Garden Memories album. Please send us your photos Here to add to our album. It was a season of beautiful tomatoes, pumpkins, zuchinnis, beans, red chard, hundreds of pounds of donated produce, and togetherness. We thank you all for donating produce this season to Arvada's Community Table Food Bank and Veggie Van, and hope you will continue to harvest throughout the month to ensure no produce goes to waste on the vine. ,Upcoming Events October 21, 9 am: Gravel Spreading Closing Party ..read more

As our garden enters full Harvest season and Autumn rains start to fall, we look back at a 2023 season and appreciate the many opportunities to learn from each other, gather and celebrate community, and create a joined patchwork of fruitful garden plots. We are thankful for all of you who have participated in work parties, workshops, the annual City of Arvada Garden Tour, and our music and potlucks in the garden. We have loved seeing all of our returning and new gardeners thriving this season and hope you plan to return next season! Keep an eye out for an Intent to Return Form in our next news ..read more

It is half way through our beautiful garden season and we have about 400 hours logged as a garden in total so keep coming to work parties, meetings, and garden events to finish the season strong! Remember to log your service hours Here. You can check how many you've logged Here by sorting by plot number. We thank all of you for your dedication and service to the community. We have one of the most beautiful gardens in the Front Range, and it is because of all of you! ,Event Recap We had a great turnout at the July 30 Music in the Garden and Potluck BBQ with Lucas Lawson and Leland Mackessy. W ..read more

Late June and July are when many gardeners really start to get a bumpin' crop! We hope you caught our last Pest Management Newsletter Here and explore organic approaches to protecting your crops. We also hope you had a safe fun Fourth of the July, and did a little dancing in the rain! ,Event Recap June 10 Work Party: We had a total of 15 people volunteer from 8 am to approximately 11 am on June 10, with hours included for preparation and clean up by the organizers. 44 hours were tallied x $7 per hour = $308 value for Rose Roots in kind contribution. The team did a great job and we will conti ..read more

Now that our garden is going gangbusters, some of you may have noticed pesky ravenous insects are a part of organic gardening which have to be managed. Gina Schley with She Grows Flower gardens (and one of Rose Roots garden founders) generously sprayed our garden with nematodes at the start of our season. Nematodes are an organic means of introducing "good" bugs to eat the larvae of the "bad" bugs before they hatch and eat our precious veggies. Here is a breakdown of what we know. ,Nematodes When to apply: Nematodes are recommended for use whenever larvae are present—spring and fall. Look for ..read more

Hello Gardeners, It is June and Mother Nature continues to bless us with moisture! By now your garden is planted and it is time to watch it grow! As we approach summer solstice this month around June 21 our plants will reach for that extra sun exposure, as the summer solstice occurs at the moment the earth's tilt toward the sun is at a maximum. The solstice is the beginning of the astronomical summer and has been celebrated since ancient times as the longest day of the year. With an increasing diversity of color in the garden, we see the your creative ideas come alive while our community space ..read more

Greetings Rose Roots Gardeners and Friends, Happy Mother's Day to anyone who has loved a mother or been one, and happy Mother's Day to our Mother Earth who is thriving with all this rain! Here is a great guide provided by Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) on what to plant when in Colorado. We had a wonderful Kick Off Work Party on April 29th with a delicious brunch, many worker bees, and the opportunity to meet our new gardeners! See some memories below. ,2023 Kick Off Work Party April 29 Thank you all for your support of the West Side Project. What a day we had on Saturday May 6! We had about 20 ga ..read more

2023 Plot Registration Welcome to the Rose Roots 2023 Garden Season, In the Lucky month of Green, the buds are starting to peep through the snow and all of our plots have been filled in our Pre-Registration process. Gardeners have been invited to Register using the Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) Registration link. We are excited to see all of you this season. If you haven't already, please register and pay for your plot by April 30. You MUST register and pay BEFORE you start working on your plot (i.e. getting the soil ready). Please take a few moments to review our new webpage on Getting Started ..read more