Archive for
-
Community gardens mean different things to different people. I'm here at the 30th Annual Conference for the American Community Gardening Association. You can follow along this week as I twitter (compostinmyshoe) and blog at both my personal blog, compostinmyshoe and parkangels.org.
-
A few weeks back, we were cleaning out the leaves caught over the years in the clumps of cast iron plant, Aspidistra elatior 'Milky Way' under the live oaks at Chapel St. Fountain Park. This was around the time where it had rained every day for the last two weeks, wet, wet, wet??????everywhere.
-
We will be keeping our eyes on the garden for the next 3 months, giving it special care as everything roots in really well. Watering is on a need only basis. Garden in the Parks days will give this new Etiwan Park garden the monthly care it needs to look it??????s best!
-
Day 2 in Etiwan park could be summed up in two words, hot and stinky. 20 cubic yards of compost were spread and tilled in the beds getting them ready for the next day planting. We could not have done it without the help of the two student interns from Moore Farms.
-
Day 1 in Etiwan Park posed the hardest task, removing the existing turf grass. Spray painted lines showed an outline of future planting beds. Now with the sod gone, one can see what a great space we have to plant. But we are not going there yet... time for the bed amendments.
