Posted in community garden, guerrilla gardening, philadelphia, sustainability, tagged autumn, carrots, cauliflower, kale, seeds, wheat paste on 09/11/2009 | 3 Comments »
In my excitement for fall, I went out and purchased so many seeds without realizing I had little land left to plant them! So I cleared the weeds and trash on the other side of the wall of the garden on 6th Street to make more room. I haven’t had much success planting seeds in the city sidewalk soil, but I made another attempt this weekend and planted carrot seeds. What’s next? Maybe kale or cauliflower!!!!
I also wheat pasted this blog’s address on the wall. Has anyone seen it??
Posted in community garden, guerrilla gardening, philadelphia, tagged autumn, carrots, kale, organic, student teaching, triple oaks nursery, volunteers on 08/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
After returning from WWOOFing, I visited the garden and found myself pretty impressed with the plants. They are strong little organisms, and I’m quite proud of them.
Many thanks to Danny T for adding a sunflower and tomato plant, and doing a bit of maintenance.
My organic farming experience will very valuable to the garden, methinks, as now I know some natural fertilizing and insecticide techniques. I also stopped at Triple Oaks to get some seeds for the fall! For some reason I was all bummed out that I’d have to end gardening soonish, but that was silly because now I know I might be gardening well into December. I have plans for kale, leeks, carrots, potatoes, etc
I also came home to a fabulous Gmail inbox. Turns out someone actually saw my sidewalk chalking of this blog’s addy! and wanted to ask me some questions for a community research paper of sorts. Turns out Lotus is a quality teacher in the making, and wanted to learn about the community where I’ve been gardening and where she will soon be student teaching. Anywho, I’m honored that she considers the garden a “community asset,” and I’m really hoping we can get some of her kiddies involved in the guerrilla gardening experience come autumn.
