Thank You To...

Donna Lajcak for donating iris tubers from her garden. Loveland Tool Rental for donating the use of a rototiller and sod cutter so we could dig our gardens. Home Depot for donating the little shovels the kids like so much.  Barb Nightingale for donating the little plastic water tubes that make our Meals-on-Wheels bouquets possible. Loveland Store 'N Lock for donating space for our surplus garden supplies. Rolke Brothers for donating sunflower seeds to grow the sunflowers the kids so enjoy. Haddix Tree Service for donating and delivering mulch for our garden paths Ken and Terry Diede owners of Distinctive Dahlias, Valier, MT for the hundreds of dahlia tubers they donated to the program.  You'll see them growing along Dahlia Row in back of the schools. Mountain Laurel Nursery for donating the heirloom tomatoes the deer enjoy so much. The Kroger Company  for donating the sweet potatoes we planted this spring and the garlic we planted this fall. The following folks also donated dahlia tubers to the garden project.  Dolinski & Son Sauvie Island Dahlias The Gathering Garden Frey's Dahlias  Old House Gardens Danielle's Dahlias Mark Hopkins for sharing gobs of daffodil bulbs from his garden.  The Greater Cincinnati Foundation for a grant that allowed us to purchase two grow labs for the fourth grade. Jim  Kraml, a supervisor with Schmidt Builders for salvaging pieces of lumber from his work sites that would otherwise go in the  dumpster.  Gourd Seeds Thanks to the following mail order gourd seed suppliers for our most popular attraction... the Gourd Patch Jack's Grain & Gourds  donated a wide variety of seeds.  The following folks also donated seeds.  Foothills Farm Shelley Roger Fletcher  Bay Farm Services   The Loveland Beautification Committee for donating 8 large trash bags full of canna bulbs to the garden project.