I finally got some pictures at my community garden today. The garden is a plot of land in the middle of a commercial district. The land belongs to one of the neighboring businesses who have allowed us to make it into a community garden. About half of the land is fruit trees and the other half is made up of plots that are used by people such as myself and the farm that is helping to host the garden. The farm uses about half the plots to grow produce for their CSA. It is really amazing to drive through this area of town and know that there is this large garden smack in the middle of the commercial district. During a recent city-wide volunteer day, the garden was one of the places where people could come to volunteer to help beautify the city.
Here is a picture from the street:
This is what you see inside the drive-in gate:
There is a maze set up in the middle of the garden that is planted with succulents and drought resistant plants. The maze separates the garden plots from the orchard:
The garden regularly hosts classes on all things gardening. One of these days I hope to make it to a tree pruning session to learn how to prune my fruit trees.
These are most of the personal plots maintained by locals such as myself (I couldn't get them all in the picture however):
This is my sad little plot. I hadn't been maintaining it at all for a while and it's going to take some work to whip it back into shape, but at least I have the time to do it. Tomorrow I am going to pick up some bee-friendly flowers to plant among the tomatoes and melons I have in there now:
Down at the end that looks really overgrown is a strawberry patch and a bit of fennel (can someone tell me what to do with fennel? I wasn't the one who planted it and I have never used it before). I haven't weeded at all in there simply because I didn't want to disturb the strawberries too much and I was ready to quit by the time I got to them anyway
. I have a couple watermelons planted in the middle and four heirloom tomatoes at the near end. I just put the cages up today since I had extra time and figured I should do it when I had the motivation:
I will post more pictures when things start to get bigger and fruit. Hope you enjoyed seeing my local community garden!
Hattie,
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Hattie 
I'm obviously getting slower........................! 
