Our community garden so far this year. Photo album.

[amerikat]

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http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v66/amerikat/Community%20Garden%202011/

[KittyWampus]

1. Looking good. I personally don't like tillers and prefer double digging but

that's a lot of woman hours. :)

Good luck. I have to start spraying the cuke leaves tomorrow for powdery mildew

[amerikat]

2. It's about 15,000 Sq/ft. two of us tilled it twice in one day.

I don't think we would have as many gardeners if we didn't use the tillers.

[amerikat]

3. I didn't have time to caption the pics. Comment or questions are welcome

[K8-EEE]

4. WHAT A FANTASTIC PROJECT!!

Super inspiring. Thank so much for the pix!

[robinlynne]

5. I love the sequence!!! What a great story, needing no words.

[pscot]

6. Nice little peapatch

you have there.

[wiggs]

28. Guessed correctly that you were from Washington...they call their

community gardens 'pea patches' in Seattle. We visited some of the 63 pea patches up there...some fantastic ones! Great models...the City helps fund the start up and supplies and a percentage of the harvest must go the food bank.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Community gardens are wonderful.

I think this is really great.

[Liberty Belle]

8. Cool. Check out the best community garden EVER here:

Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mishamjohnson/sets/72157626571275694/

Website:http://wildwillowfarm.sandiegoroots.org/index.html

Wild Willow Farm is south of San Diego near the Tijuana Mexico border. They grow everything there--even bananas and chickens!

[amerikat]

15. Well that is impressive. Our garden started in 2010 also.

I guess the weather is mostly dry except for a short rainy season? We are right next to a river
with a very constant flow but we get our water from the village water system.
I'll be sure to keep up with the Wild Willow Farm.

Thanks.

[Liberty Belle]

21. San Diego had an exceptionally wet winter this year,

but normally it's a semi-desert climate- less than 10 inches of rain a year, maybe even less than 5.

But the temperatures are balmy, no freezes, and some crops will grow year-round. This is also along the Tijuana River bed, so the soil is probably richer than most areas.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Oh, how wonderful!

GREAT photographs. :thumbsup:

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Very nice.

I'm an avid backyard gardener myself. Up here we have everything in raised beds for the warmth factor. I've been gardening in the same spot for over 20 years, totally organic, adding several inches of my own homemade compost every year. The ground just crawls with earthworms and my plants love it. I don't know how the worms survive through the winter, but I'm sure glad they do.

Gardening is just about the most satisfying thing I can think of. This year I grew all the plants (except the tomatoes) from seeds, many of them indoors at first and then out in the little greenhouse with a space heater around March when the light starts coming back. It's a lot of work, but I love it.


This was taken June 4. Now everything is huge. The peas have grown up to about six inches from the top of the trellis, the zucchinis are bearing fruit, and we've been eating salads for weeks.

[amerikat]

11. Sweet. I like the layout.

I use raised beds for some Of my home gardens.

[shireen]

13. beautiful!

exactly why i want to get out of apartment living and move to a house with a yard! This is a little slice of heaven .... :)

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Our yard is really tiny,

but we've converted most of it into gardens. It takes my husband about five minutes to mow the lawn -- and that includes weed-whacking. :) We live in the back unit of our front-to-back duplex and we have a double carport and driveway out front, so I've just planted Alaskan wildflowers beside the driveway. They look great and take very little maintenance, just watering and weeding early in the season.


But I didn't mean to threadjack. I really love the idea of community gardens.

[shireen]

19. i'm glad you posted the photo

it fits in well with this thread, and it's an inspiration.
:hi:

[Generic Other]

22. Thumbs Up for growing stuff in the tundra!

You get extra points for hard weather conditions!

[demigoddess]

26. beautiful job!!!!!!!!!!!!

you should go into garden designing.

[jillan]

10. It's beautiful! You should feel proud :)

[shireen]

12. wonderful photos!

I love it. Whereabouts is this? Is it a small town? It looks so nice.

[amerikat]

17. Small Village in upstate NY.

Northeast of Albany and about 25 minutes to Vermont.

[shireen]

18. sounds like a lovely place to live

:hi:

[Generic Other]

20. I love the sense of community you got going there!

Looks like a very nice place to live!

[CleanGreenFuture]

23. That is just awesome! Good job!

[MineralMan]

24. Very nice. Can I get a 10 lb. Zucchini when they're ready?

:rofl:

Seriously, though that looks very good. Congratulations!

[Le Taz Hot]

25. Great pictures and great concept.

(Enter the naysayers claiming it's "elitist." Yes, that was on THIS board.) I took up gardening several years ago and LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

[wiggs]

27. Nice! Check out this one in San Clemente, where residents and

neighbors really share their community garden...no individual plots. Lots of volunteer work. Big proponent of the ability of edible gardens to strengthen families, neighborhoods, communities and this one is really getting interesting. Neighbors are contributing aloe, chayote, and more. We add CSA baskets to the garden's harvest and give away fresh produce weekly...and they need it.

Started in 2010 also. Check out the albums. Search for "El Jardin de Los Mares" group in Facebook. I don't seem to able to copy a direct link, so you have to search...sorry. Worth it though.

http://www.facebook.com/

[amerikat]

29. Found the FB page. Nice work

https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/146360252096892