Anybody participating in a community garden? I'm germinating heirloom tomatoes to plant in our community garden and support the local food bank.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Tonight, I set up an okra seed germination tray. It's on the left. The heirloom tomatoes are on the right
farmboy2017
Level 7
Apr 3, 2018
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I looked at participating in a community garden, but found the space too limited and the participation restrictions too limiting. So, I continue my vegetable garden in my back yard.
wordywalt
Level 9
Apr 3, 2018
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I've heard of some gardens that have rules like a home owners association. Yuk!!
Good luck with it. Keeping heirloom veg going is such a good idea and a lot of fun too. We tried it when my husband was more active and had some very good crops of interesting veg..
CeliaVL
Level 7
Apr 3, 2018
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I wish I knew more about other heirloom veggies. Right now the only ones I do are tomatoes.
@farmboy2017 We grew some broad beans called 'Martocks'. Apparently the were an early type, as grown in the middle ages. The were strange, the beans grew pointing upwards like bunches of fingers and they were a lot smaller than modern beanbs. But they tasted just like the modern ones. I think a lot of modern veg have been developed to increase size, but often with a loss of taste, but modern broad beans seem okay to me. We got them from a heritage veg organisation in the UK. i don't know if there is a similar organisation in the USA?
@farmboy2017 Check out Baker Heirloom Seeds. [rareseeds.com] I love their seeds and they have a huge variety. Also, they try to educate people on their seeds so that is helpful as well.
@SheThatB I'll do that. Thanks!!
That is awesome! I love looking at gardens and eating the fresh fruit or vegetables to be so yummy. I love most fruits all fresh or vegetables. I don't however like getting my hands in soil. It feels weird to have dirt all over me. I'm a little OCD with cleanliness btw.
Sarahroo29
Level 8
Apr 3, 2018
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I help organise a community garden locally for those less fortunate mentally and or physically . We grow loads of flowers and vegetables ... Potatoes , green beans , broccoli , cabbage , peas , tomatoes , fennel , loads of other herbs and strawberries are a favourite with the kids . We use no chemicals either so the caterpillars have a great time . Each year we go begging to supermarkets etc and get some funding too... The local council also give us prizes which is great for the kids and we've even managed to get some funds from them too . Unfortunately they won't let us organise barbecue for health and safety reasons , so we have a picnic/ open day in the summer . The crop we split up between everyone involved . During the summer , I,m there every day ... I suppose I,ll have to start soon , if it ever stops raining !
MarcIveson
Level 6
Apr 3, 2018
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we are going to have a very dry summer. I don't think I will be trying to garden at all this year. GOod for you with the heirlooms!
btroje
Level 9
Apr 3, 2018
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I still gardened during the great drought of 2011. It can be done!
@farmboy2017 i do not have water here
@btroje not even gray water or dew off the roof?
@farmboy2017 I do not have running water. I catch water but use it for my animals
@btroje Got it!
I WISH my neighborhood would do this
Lucy_Fehr
Level 8
Apr 3, 2018
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You could think of starting one yourself . Ours was just waste ground behind a housing project . In fact the owners of the project now support us through a bit of funding .... Makes the area nicer doesn't it ?
You could start it with a single bed and a few packets of seed!
I hope you have good luck.
The community gardens I have taken part in were plucked clean by people that did not participate at harvest time.
BufftonBeotch
Level 8
Apr 3, 2018
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We've not had that problem. Yet...
You must be my northern hemisphere counterpart. I run/work in our local community gardens and volunteer at the community foodbank . Both tomorrow. We have limited space for the garden, so all of the gardeners propagate at home. We swap among ourselves, then plant the rest in the community garden. Same with produce, we take lots from home, swap it among ourselves, then donate the rest plus the community garden produce to the foodbank.
Rugglesby
Level 8
Apr 3, 2018
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I'd like ours to go in such a direction but the members are busy elsewhere and distracted by our paying jobs.?
@farmboy2017 The pantry is run by a local church, I just do the lifting for the others. I am having a meeting tomorrow with our gardeners, we always have a problem with people taking produce, not a little, we are fine with that, lots of homeless people or people in need, so that is fine. But when people take what would amount to boxes of passion fruit, corn beans and such, usually unripe even, that sucks. But over the last 3 weeks, people have been taking the plants. One person must have been disturbed because they left behind a big pot they were putting them in as they went.They are taking ginger eggplants, herbs, all sorts of almost grown plants. This is a new low. Most of our gardeners are retired, but the garden is so small.
@Rugglesby we've had a few problems too ..someone was delberately taking the heads off of the flowers or using the grassed area as a spot for their barbie and not cleaning up , but hey ho ... Most people appreciate it .
@Rugglesby We've been lucky and not had alot of those kinds of troubles.
Sounds wonderful! I used to grow much of my own food when I lived on our KY family farm.
birdingnut
Level 8
Apr 2, 2018
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Everyone can do it, at least s little bit. Keep on growing!
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