Gardens

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Teacher Kevin Bruckman helps his Gramercy Elementary School third-graders plant tulip bulbs in the Gramercy Giving Garden on Tuesday. Thanksgiving Point, in cooperation with the Utah State University Extension Service, provided bulbs to Utah schools.

Gramercy Elementary students plant tulip bulbs in Giving Garden

OGDEN -- The sky was gray and threatening Tuesday morning, but Terri Ashment's Gramercy Elementary School fourth-grade class assessed the cumulus clouds and moved forward with their mission.

They made a run for the Gramercy Giving Garden, planted last spring and still providing tomatoes and onions for salsa, but their focus would be tulip bulbs called Red Emperors, an early spring variety able to survive winter's final flurries.

(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Mohamed Sadiq is growing this large pumpkin at his Ogden home and hopes the 900-pounder will reach 1,000 pounds by Saturday’s annual Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers contest at Thanksgiving Point. Last year, he placed sixth with a 593-pound pumpkin.

Growing giant pumpkins requires loving care, Ogden doc says

LAYTON -- Happiness is spending hundreds of dollars to win a $5 ribbon. That's what Dr. Mohamed Sadiq decided after three years of growing pumpkins for a statewide contest.

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Stacey Rice (left) and her son, Devin White, 15, work on a plot in the Sow for Humanity Garden on Wednesday at the Catholic Community Services Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank.

Getting A Hand Up with Sow for Humanity

OGDEN -- There was a line of folks in need who were at the food bank Wednesday for a handout.

Tours open for Ogden's East Bench gardens

OGDEN -- The gates to nine exceptional gardens on Ogden's East Bench will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 13 for a tour benefiting the Ogden Nature Center. This year's gardens are full of rich Ogden history and fabulous architecture.

Garden club plant sale is Saturday

BRIGHAM CITY -- Spade & Hope Garden Club will hold its annual spring plant sale from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday on the Brigham City Hall Plaza, with everyone invited to browse and buy healthy plants.

(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Volunteers are preparing flower beds for the season at the Ogden Botanical Gardens.

Not coming up roses in many Top of Utah gardens

OGDEN -- More than 30 volunteer master gardeners were busily weeding and cultivating the Ogden Botanical Gardens on Tuesday morning, but they ignored the centerpiece of the gardens, its wide-ranging and much-photographed rose beds.

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Students at Gramercy Elementary attend a recent groundbreaking ceremony for their new garden containing eight plots, that kindergartners through sixth-graders will plant and harvest as part of an academic service learning project in Ogden.

Community gardens to offer area residents fruit and vegetables

NORTH OGDEN -- In between the ubiqitous raindrops, people across the Top of Utah have begun to prep for gardening.

No hives in this Beehive State city; Roy council worries about safety in residential areas

ROY -- Utah's nickname is the Beehive State, but that doesn't mean beehives are universally loved. There will be no buzz in residential zones here after the city council earlier this week denied a petition to allow homeowners to keep bees.

Weeding out old no-garden rule in North Ogden

NORTH OGDEN -- Those tomatoes, potatoes, peas and peppers from your backyard garden tasted sweet this summer, but your harvest was probably against the law.

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