jubilee gardens A growing community

Jubilee Gardens is at 150 Lafayette St., Youngstown. It’s been a community garden for some 30 years.

Season begins: Mary Bobersky, coordinator, and Pat Lowry, president of Jubilee Gardens, met with gardeners in May at a luncheon program in First Presbyterian Church in Youngstown. The event featured speaker Justin Rogers, planning manager-landscape architect at Mill Creek MetroParks, who explained how to construct a rain garden.

Supplies: Gardeners picked up seeds for flowers such as zinnias, cosmos, bachelor buttons, marigolds and nasturiums. Herbs such as dill, rosemary, chives and spearmint also were available. The largest variety was vegetable seeds, including beets, broccoli, cantaloupe, carrots, white and yellow corn, cucumber, onions, pumpkins, peas, spinach, squash and tomatoes. Bean choices were yellow, wax, bush, black, green, roma and half-runner. The gardeners also get flats of plants started by inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown and Trumbull Correctional Institution in Warren.

Harvest time: An end-of-season picnic will be in September.

Contact information: Jubilee Gardens, 330-503-2971.