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Plant Donations & Victory Garden

Important Dates
Important Dates

  • Donation Drop-off Days: April 13, 15, 17, 20, 22 from 9 am to 1 pm

  • Victory Garden Seedling Drop-off Days:  April 20, 22 from 9 am to 1pm

  • RCMGA Plant Sale: April 24 9 am to 3 pm

 
How to Prepare Your Donations

  • Hydrate & Prep: Water your plants the day before digging. Use plain
    black pots with a coffee filter or newspaper at the bottom to retain soil
    while allowing drainage.  Prune to remove winter stalks and seed heads.

  • Label Immediately: Don’t trust your memory! Label every pot with both the botanical and common names.  See below for more information.​​​​​

Remember to check that your plant is NOT on the invasive species list.
Invasive Plant Species
Plant Information for Labels

The following links will take you to documents to help you label your plants with the correct information.  The documents include the following information:

  • Plant common name

  • Whether plant is native

  • Plant category (annual, perennial, house plant, tree, shrub, grass, vegetable, herb)

  • Light requirements

  • Bloom time and color

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Instructions for using the documents:

The first link is to a document that has all of the plants included.  The remaining links go to documents with only the specified category.​  In each document, you can scroll to see the plants or search for the plant using the search function.

Plant Information for Labels
Options for Labeling Your Plants

We have created several options for supporting you with your plant labeling:

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If you have a printer, click here for a Word Document 2026 Plant Label for Printers to use as an example:

  • Type your information using this as an example.

  • Cut the labels and affix them to the plant pot using heavy duty packaging tape.  Please do not use scotch tape or any other type of tape.  The label needs to be waterproof!

 

If you do not have a printer, but have a computer, a flash drive, and a Richland County library card:

  • Type your labels as shown above and load them onto a flash drive.

  • Take the flash drive to your Richland Library branch, and print copies at the library.

    • You can print up to 10 copies a day for free, if your document is on a flash drive.

    • Photocopies are 25 cents a piece.

 

If you do not have a computer, printer, or library card, etc., click here to see the Word Document 2026 Landscape Labels for Handwriting:

  • We will have hard copies of this document available at the April Membership meeting and in the Hoop House area where we will be receiving plant donations on April 13, 15, 17, 20, and 22.

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You can bring your plants already labeled, or you can do it on-site when you come to drop off your plants.

 

We will have a labeling station with a table, chairs, permanent markers and heavy-duty packaging tape available for your use.

Options for Labeling Your Plants
Victory Garden Information - Your Seedlings

  1. Lettuce seeds should be sown by the end of March.

  2. You need to start hardening off all of your plants. 

  3. If your plants are growing too big for your soil blocks or cells, pot them in bigger size pots.

  4. Fertilize those seedlings to keep them growing strong.

  5. We will start accepting your seedlings Monday, April 20 and again on Wednesday, April 22.

If you have questions, please contact Marilyn Hogan mdhogan23@gmail.com 

803-360-3647

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Victory Garden
Garden Rejuvination
Garden Rejuvenation and Donation Suggestions

  • Increase those asters and anemones

  • Break up the bunches of begonias and bugleweed

  • Cheerfully cleave your cannas and crinums

  • Cut up those clumps of chrysanthemum and coreopsis

  • Divide those dahlias and daylilies

  • Fork apart the phlox and the fogloves

  • Halve the hostas and the healthy herbs

  • Invigorate veronicas​

  • Multiply mallows and monarda

  • Pull apart penstemon

  • Quarter Queen Anne’s lace

  • Rejuvenate rudbeckias

  • Section succulents and sedums

  • Separate those Shasta daisies

  • Split the Siberian iris

  • Spread apart sage, salvias and stokesia

  • Tear apart tiarella

  • Yank away at your yarrow

Division Tips:

  • Spreading Roots (Asters, Daisies): Gently pull into small clumps of 3–5 vigorous shoots.

  • Clumping Roots (Hostas, Daylilies): Pry or fork apart. Ensure each division has at least one "eye" or bud.

  • Rhizomes (Iris, Cannas): Keep a few inches of rhizome with one fan of leaves cut back.

  • Large Masses (Grasses, Ferns): For tough root balls, drop them from 1–2 feet to loosen soil, then use an axe or saw to separate.

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