Charleswood

Garden Club

Event Calendar 2025

Regular meetings usually take place on the second Tuesday of the month from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at St Mary Anglican Church, 3830 Roblin Blvd (corner of Roblin Blvd and Haney St).

To view more information about an event, click the date.

January 14, 2025 Regular meeting

Starting Seeds – Everything you need to grow
Kim Sysa will show us step by step how to start seeds along with some of the pitfalls to avoid and some winning strategies that we can use.

February 11, 2025 Regular meeting

New Charleswood Sign Welcomes New Landscape
Garden Club member Gord Bone volunteered to prepare a landscape proposal for the enhancement of our delightful new "Welcome to Charleswood" sign on Roblin Blvd. This presentation will review the design process as seen through his eyes as a landscape architect. Attendees will see plenty of visuals while hearing the design choices he made on route to the eventual proposal (first reveal). Questions, comments, and suggestions will be welcome - changes may result!

March 11, 2025 Regular meeting

Growing Hot Peppers in Manitoba
Bobbie & Don Bartros from B & D Spice Mixers will share their knowledge on hot peppers. Don has been growing peppers for at least 25 years starting with the usual jalapeno, habanero and then, oh my, the ghost pepper! Back then, it was THE pepper to grow. If you could grow it, you were something. With the internet a whole new world of hot peppers opened up. You couldn't imagine that there were that many pepper types.
Don will tell us how he grows them here in Manitoba with tips on growing your own hot peppers. They have developed a variety of pepper mixes and will have some sale.

April 8, 2025 Regular meeting

Vertical Gardening
Trina Semenchuk is a Biosystems/Mechanical engineer who is focused on controlled environment agriculture solutions. Her company Little Greenhouse That Could has a vision to turn Manitoba into the vertical farming hub of the world. Her company provides design services, equipment installations and training to retrofit existing empty indoor spaces into farms and localize food production. In the presentation Trina will discuss the basics of indoor growing, the benefits of vertical farming, and how Little Greenhouse That Could clients are making a local impact.

May 13, 2025 Regular Meeting To be announced

To be announced

May 22, 2025 Plant Auction

Plant Auction
St Mary Anglican Church, 3830 Roblin Blvd.
Doors open at 6:00PM. Auction starts at 6:30PM.

July 12, 2025 Bus Trip

Bus Trip
Altona Gardens & Art. Click here for more information.

October 14, 2025 Regular meeting To be announced

To be announced

November 11, 2025 Regular meeting To be announced

To be announced

December 9, 2025 To be announced

To be announced


Click here for a list of other years' events.

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Vertical Farming

Tuesday, April 7, 2025
7:30 pm


Trina Semenchuk is a Biosystems/Mechanical engineer who is focused on controlled environment agriculture solutions. Her company Little Greenhouse That Could has a vision to turn Manitoba into the vertical farming hub of the world. Her company provides design services, equipment installations and training to retrofit existing empty indoor spaces into farms and localize food production. In the presentation Trina will discuss the basics of indoor growing, the benefits of vertical farming, and how Little Greenhouse That Could clients are making a local impact.

3830 Roblin Blvd. St Mary Anglican Church (corner of Roblin Blvd and Haney Street) - use door off parking lot

Guests Welcome. Free admission
For more information email Info@charleswoodgc.ca.

Garden Centre Donations

Thank you to all these sponsors for their generous donations to our 2024 Annual Spring Plant Auction

- Beaucage Lawn & Garden Centre
- Jensen Nursery & Garden Centre
- Lacoste Garden Centre
- Leclerc Greenhouses
- Paul's Greenhouse
- Red River Soils
- Red Valley Plant Market
- Ron Paul Garden Centre
- Sage Gardens
- Shelmerdine Garden Centre
- St. Mary's Nursery & Garden Centre
- St. Leon Gardens
- Superstore Grant at Kenaston
- T & T Seeds
- Vanderveen's Greenhouse

Become a Member

E-transfer $10.00 to membership@charleswoodgc.ca or mail a cheque to: 1422 Loudoun Road, R3S 1A4 and make the cheque payable to Noreen Kolesar. Please include your address and phone number. Your membership card with your membership number will be available to pick up at our next regular meeting.