I love answering the door when opportunity knocks! For the last week or so I have been working on a story for a local publication about my journey creating a community garden. The article takes a look at what drove me to create the garden, the challenges that we faced (once I had found other gardeners), and where we hope to take the garden in the future. I was honored to be asked and even more excited when I learned it was to be a cover story for the magazine. My story quickly became 1700 words when only 1550 were needed- but I figure that is what editing is for! I need to gather some photographs for the article and then I will wait anxiously until July when it will be published.
Another exciting development is the addition of our drip lines! The city has completed the top portion of the system and I spent some time yesterday laying out the netafim lines that we brought from our last location. These are set every 36 inches and we will lay our black plastic mulch down over them. This will give us some awesome benefits. The ground will warm quickly early in the season, the mulch will suppress weeds and our water use will be 75% more efficient!
Our seedlings are coming along wonderfully. Unfortunately, so are the weeds, which means I will soon be spending my afternoons weeding between tiny seedlings. The above picture shows a Swiss Chard seedling. Everything is up now. Tiny lettuce seedlings, kale, radishes, beets, peas, sunflowers, nasturtiums, spinach, potatoes, onions, leeks, garlic and wheat will soon be large enough to out compete the weeds. I love this time of year as our garden soil slowly turn to green with new growth.
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