2025

February 

The First meeting of the year was held on  Wednesday, Feb. 26 at our new meeting place, the Hooksett Congregational Church.The program for this meeting was  “From Seed to Sprout: Growing Indoors for a Thriving Garden”,  and was presented by HGC member Brianna Bowden. She came prepared with everything she needed to demonstrate three different methods of seed sowing – Winter sowing, which is planting in plastic containers and put directly outside during the winter; using cell tray; and for larger plants, planting directly into pots. At the end of her demonstration she raffled off her supplies to members of the audience. Brianna has had a lot of experience with seed starting and gave an interesting and informative presentation and gave many tips  on her sucesses and failures as well as product recommendations. The program was open to the public. After the program the business meeting was discussing upcoming programs and this years plant sale. We also had member Patricia Brown show how to make "garden mushrooms" using recycled glass.

March

Our annual Yankee Swap was held this year in March instead of February. Its always a fun meeting.

April

The April meeting was a field trip to Frizzhomme Gardens in Bedford. Owner Jeff Frizzhome gave a talk on the history of the greenhouse and also an overview of the cactus and succulent greenhouse. After a brief business meeting and refreshments we were allowed to tour the 13 greenhouses filled with beautiful flowers on our own and even to purchase plants.