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Which MCG activities are you most interested in?*

  • Town beautification 70.0%
  • Garden-related outings 66.7%
  • Education 63.3%
  • Social opportunities 60.0%
  • Hands-on workshops 46.7%
  • Swapping plants/seedlings 46.7%
  • Using Tower Hill/Garden in the Woods passes 3.3%
  • Knowing what’s going on in community & supporting via informal PR 3.3%
  • Garden-related outings (on weekends/Sundays instead of during the week) 3.3%

How established is your current garden?

  • Brand new 6.7%
  • Somewhat new 16.7%
  • Established 23.3%
  • Very well established 50.0%
  • N/A 3.3%

Comments:

  • In need of intervention.
  • And it is a work in progress….
  • An overgrown inheritance with some lovely plantings which need taming!
  • We moved to Maynard about a year ago
  • Iinformal, colorful and a work in progress
  • I’m trying to attract butterflies, birds, and bats to my garden. I got my first monarchs this year! Having a dreadful time with some kind of tomato blight.
  • I did not have much time to spend on my garden this year (2 dahlia plants). I hope to be able to do more next year.
  • I have no garden of my own but have been tending several others for 5 years.
  • A “survival” garden–it has to be able to survive without me watering it or having to tend it too much.
  • It varies from part to part. Some areas I’ve worked on longer than others, and some areas need help!
  • My garden is badly in need of a “re-do”
  • Constantly evolving - definitely changing,English garden to more defined.
  • A 12′ X 12′ plot located at Apple Ridge Condos. It’s down in our meadow where there is a community garden. I wasn’t successful with vegetables,so now am working on a butterfly garden. It’s coming along fairly well; though this fall and/or next spring some of the plants have to be moved around to be placed better.
  • It is established, but could use a lot of help.
  • A lot of perennials and vegetables with a few annuals.

What do you grow?*

  • Perennial flowers 93.3%
  • Bulbs 73.3%
  • Ornamental trees & shrubs 66.7%
  • Fruits and/or vegetables 60.0%
  • Annual flowers 60.0%
  • Herbs 56.7%
  • Other, or what’s your specialty? (e.g., roses, rhododendrons)
    • Roses/climbing roses 6.7%
    • Rhododendrons 6.7%
    • Things I’ve propagated 3.3%
    • Clematis & Siberian Iris 3.3%
    • Oregon grapeberry 3.3%

Do you garden organically? (e.g., no artificial fertilizers or pesticides)

  • Always 20.7%
  • Usually/mostly 55.2%
  • Sometimes 10.3%
  • No 13.8%

* Results do not sum to 100%, since more than one answer could be chosen.

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