Members of Troop 52 help Gardnerville staff plant trees along Mountain View Pond on Arbor Day.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
With spring’s roller coaster weather it’s early to start planting, no matter how prepared Carson Valley’s gardeners are.
Around 45 people turned out April 25 for the sixth annual Spring Forum, the first held at the Heritage Park Gardens, according to organizer Donna Werner.
“It was our first time having the forum at the gardens,” Werner said. “Speakers were Jessica Chase with Sierra Flower Farm talked about growing beautiful flowers here, Master Gardener and rosarian Suzanne Miladin and Full Circle Compost’s Craig Witt spoke to the group about growing vegetables and the importantance of worms to a garden.
Witt also brought tomatoes and pepper plants for participants to take home.
On Arbor Day, Full Circle was a topic of conversation as Gardner- ville town staff planted 13 trees along the Mountain View Pond trail with the help of a few Scouts.
Arborist Geoff LaCost said he’d obtained some bags of Witt’s soil to plant the trees.
Town Manager Erik Nilssen said this is the 24th consecutive year that Gardnerville has been recognized as a Tree City USA.
Two northern catalpa trees and two London plain trees were planted with the help of the Scouts.
The two catalpa trees were among a half dozen planted on Arbor Day. The town also planted two horse chestnuts, two lindens and one sour cherry tree.
“We’re planting something fast and immediate and something that will take longer,” LaCost said.
In two or three decades, the trees will provide shade for the trail.
“We asked the people of Gardnerville what they wanted along this path and the No. 1 thing they said was that they wanted shade, and they wanted benches,” Nilssen told the gathering. “So we’re starting with the shade and in a couple of months we’ll put the benches out as well. When people are out here in the summer, if they get hot or tired, they will have a spot where they can stop and they can rest.”
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