This year I decided to add to my garden, not only by putting in a much bigger garden at home (posts on that to come) but also to take part in my local community garden. It is located in Marymoor Park in Redmond, and gets sun all day long. Since this is our first year, we are only allowed 1 plot, which isn’t a problem for us at all. We even decided to go halfers on the plot with our good friend (more family really) cbro. No, his mother did not give him that name, but if I called him by his real name none of my family would know who I was talking about. Each community plot is 10′x40′, giving us 400 sq ft. We are dividing it in half, so my wife and I have 200 sq ft in addition to the 500 sq ft we have at home.
We got to the plot around noon on a cool and rainy Saturday. This was fine by me as it meant it wasn’t going to be crowded.. in fact we were the only ones in the place for the first two hours. Our plot did not look like it had been used in a while. Later we discovered that both ours and the plot beside it likely belonged to the same person last year or the year before. Maybe we won’t have neighbors on one side this year and we can expand a little.
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The community garden looks pretty rough right now, being technically still winter. I took this picture from the main entrance to see how it changes over the seasons. |
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This is what we have to work with. Random wire, and lots of grass, weeds, and old vegetative material. Looks tasty! |
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But, you take 3 strong backs and a few hours of work and you end up with something a lot more pleasant. We will go back next week and make our beds and add our compost and organic fertilizers. We might even plant some peas. |
Looks great so far, you all did a nice job getting the ground ready
One step at a time!