Comments | onfruitstreet: Trying to get an early start on the garden plots

onfruitstreet

Trying to get an early start on the garden plots

Mar 18, 2009 08:59

I'm behind on getting seeds started, but I'm trying to get my garden plots tidied up and ready. Buggy before the horse.

I biked to the plots, thank you very much. Damned near killed me, but I did it. (And one of my lifetime goals is to bike across the country?)

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misshawklet March 18 2009, 13:35:32 UTC

GARDEN!!!!!!!

onfruitstreet March 18 2009, 13:45:30 UTC

YES!!!! It's so exciting, isn't it?! Spring DOES eventually come around, even in New England. (Although I should know better than to speak too soon.)

Do you have an area to garden in by your new and improving-daily home?

misshawklet March 18 2009, 13:57:01 UTC

I will eventually. We are trying to figure out where its going...its hard to tell with the trees. We did want to take down a tree but the estimate is $2000...sooo...yeah alternate plan!

We have 1/4 acre so there is plenty of room for a garden! I'm hoping to do raised beds to really increase the production.

onfruitstreet March 18 2009, 14:10:22 UTC

Raised beds would be awesome! When I was gainfully employed and making big bucks, I put raised beds in at the duplex I was living in. (This was back in a Seattle suburb.) I hated to leave them behind, but you can't exactly transport raised beds. For some reason, at the community gardens here, they actually *discourage* raised beds. I don't recall their reasoning.

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moonshinelane March 18 2009, 14:42:05 UTC

I'm so envious of this blank canvas...I can't wait to see it grow! Do you have to pay for these plots? How does that work? We don't have anything like that around here...that I know of anyway.

I love your bike...what a cute photo.

onfruitstreet March 18 2009, 14:55:12 UTC

If you don't have a community garden, start one! It's awesome. Community garden setups differ from city to city. The one here is so great. Plots are about $15 for the YEAR. The first year you garden, you are allowed only one plot. If you want to garden after the first year, you can sign up for as many as, I believe, four plots. There is a "community garden" shed that houses all the tools you might need to garden--rakes, hoes, shovels, lawnmowers, etc. Use of anything in the shed is included in your fee. You do have to put in two hours of "community garden" time, but there are lots of opportunities to get that in--helping turn compost, sharpening tools, contributing to the newsletter, being a volunteer at something akin to "community garden visitors' day," weeding the plot that is dedicated to the Survival Center, delivering produce to the Survival Center, etc., etc. Water faucets are placed every four plots or so, and they provide the hose to do the watering. It really is an awesome way to garden if you don't have access to ( ... )

rumorofrain March 18 2009, 16:34:09 UTC

You decided to garden after all! Yay! I, too, am someone who always wings it. I have no real clue about how to garden, but I really want to do it anyway.

I just planted a bunch of seeds this past weekend. I'm hoping soon it will be warm enough to put them outside during the day, but I leave so early in the morning that it may be a while. Oh well.

Now I've got to get cracking on creating garden beds in which to put these babies once they've sprouted... Yeeks.