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Garden Gate:  Community Gardens  |
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
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 Posted - May 05 2010 : 9:17:02 PM
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Is anyone else involved in a community garden? I waited a long time for our town to get one, and it finally happened a year ago. It has been a really fun experience for me. I am interested to see how other community gardens function, what kind of special events you have, etc.
Here's a link to our garden's Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115626491789386
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
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Posted - May 06 2010 : 11:53:02 AM
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Hi Amy,
Those are some nice looking potatoes! Good luck with your community garden again this year.
Judy
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington |
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2010 : 5:02:30 PM
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Thanks! Wish I could take credit for the potatoes, but I just happened to be there when another gardener was harvesting!
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2010 : 01:08:08 AM
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Amy...I guess you could say that my garden is in a Community Garden. I live in a Senior Estates and we have a small Community Garden that we sign up for a spot each year. It is amazing how much we can grow in just a small plot though. Our's are raised oblong boxes...so we don't have to bend down too far, about knee level. I have had the same spot for the past 3 years and love getting my hands in the dirt and then eating my organic produce all summer. The store produce never tastes as good as the fruit of ones own labor. I love it!
Blessings,
~peggy
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2010 : 01:11:35 AM
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Amy...I just checked out your face book community garden pictures. What a lovely entrance into the gardens.
Do most people do vegetables or a combination of both flowers and vegetables?
~peggy
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2010 : 5:46:13 PM
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Peggy,
That sounds like an awesome community garden! In our garden I would say that most people do vegetables, but there are some flowers too. My favorite part is right behind my plot.......we have a "Pie Orchard" with fruit trees and berry bushes. I just planted two bluberry bushes there. We're not getting fruit yet since it's still so young, but we have high hopes for the future!
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 10 2010 : 6:54:34 PM
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hi amy, oh i am so jealous of you. we lived in santa barbara for 14 years. i love the weather there. you are a special girl to get to be there. i miss the sound of the ocean, the smell of the beach, the noise the palm trees make in the wind. your plants in the community garden are beautiful. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
farmgirl #1014
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2010 : 7:48:42 PM
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Hi Sherrye,
We lived in Santa Barbara too before we moved to Lompoc. My husband works at UCSB so he does the commute. Where in SB did you live? We lived near More Mesa, off of El Puente. I miss the weather. Too windy here in Lompoc!
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
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simplefancies
True Blue Farmgirl
117 Posts
Tami Lynn
Longview
WA
USA
117 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2010 : 10:56:49 AM
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I decided to join the commutity garden when I moved here 3 summers ago. I did it 1x and won't do it here again unless some things changed. It was a bummer for me when all of my neighbors used chemical pesticides and I didn't. Even though I was trying to go organic I couldn't due to the downwind of their sprays. It was also frustrating when a plot next to mine wasn't weeded. It kept the weeds coming and coming. Last but not least...it was so disappointing to get ready for a harvest, show up at the garden and find someone went through your plot, trampled some of your vines and decided to harvest your stuff for themselves. Big bummer.
www.theporcelaindesk.blogspot.com
1 Tim. 6:8 But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. |
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 11:06:19 AM
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The results Tami has is what I fear. I am just doing it with containers in my little backyard. I don't want chemicals on my stuff, or people raiding my garden. I wouldn't mind sharing. But I don't think I want to do the work and have it disappear or someone wreck it.
www.mrsrooster.blogspot.com
Farmgirl #1259
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simplefancies
True Blue Farmgirl
117 Posts
Tami Lynn
Longview
WA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 11:29:01 AM
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I'd be happy to share and did share but completely disliked being raided. It was such a bummer to plan on gather in the morning and coming home to can or freeze or plan on something for tomorrows dinner and then not have it.
www.theporcelaindesk.blogspot.com
1 Tim. 6:8 But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. |
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2010 : 3:15:00 PM
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I had green pumpkins stolen right off the vine last year. When I complained about it, people said maybe it was someone who needed it more than I did. But a GREEN pumpkin? What would someone do with a green pumpkin? Other than that I have not heard of crops being taken. I agree.....I don't mind sharing, and would love to set up a table in the garden for people to leave their surplus for others to take, but for someone to just take is wrong.
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
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Catherine
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
Catherine Ann
Temple
TX
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2010 : 04:24:26 AM
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Our family has 2 plots in the city community garden. Very friendly people there, I was gifted both tomato and pepper plants on 3 different occasions ... BUT, last week I went to the garden to do some much needed weeding and work, and the very nice gentleman next to me was spraying something nasty smelling on his tomatoes. I wanted to ask what it was, but he was too far away to hear me, and I didn't want to get any closer as the smell was sickening. I have a 16 month old niece that I care for and she has asthma and immune system issues, so I had to get out of there asap. When I went back 2 days later, some of my plants looked sickly ... and I wonder if he was spraying some sort of herbicide that drifted onto my pepper plants, that before were very healthy :( . I knew that the gardens weren't "organic" when I signed up, but am now thinking this will be our last season there. It is very interesting that my garden plot has lots of weeds and grass (they are growing better than my veggies), as does the lady's beside me, but these guys who have BIG plots that are market growers have large areas of corn or tomatoes and not a weed in sight ... and I've never them there weeding ...
The garden we planted at church is a "community garden" of sorts, as we will be sharing the harvest with our neighbors. I hope that as it grows and gets established, we can set aside a few plots for those who would like to grow their own garden :) . ORGANICALLY :) !
http://lovelivingsimply.blogspot.com/
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2010 : 3:52:39 PM
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Our garden was started as organic, so we haven't had to deal with that, thankfully!
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
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pumpkinvine
True Blue Farmgirl
179 Posts
Amy
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - May 16 2010 : 11:16:44 AM
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Here's a picture of my plot I took this morning.
Amy from Lompoc
Farmgirl Sister #119
http://www.pumpkincupcake.blogspot.com |
Edited by - pumpkinvine on May 16 2010 11:19:10 AM |
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TJinMT
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
TJ
Billings
MT
USA
211 Posts |
Posted - May 28 2010 : 3:52:40 PM
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We're in a church-sponsored Community Garden here in Billings, MT also! We are blessed in that ours is organic, and members must agree not to use chemicals! (although I just read on another topic that possibly the old carpet remnants they use for paths at our CG may be leaching chemicals... sigh...) It gives us a chance to grow lots more veggies and herbs for the freezer than I can fit into my own gardens at home (where I "square inch garden" - grin). I'm hoping we don't lose alot to "visitors"... although this morning noticed that apparently, a flickertail (ground squirrel) had burrowed straight into the side of one of my potato trenches. NOW what? The darn critters are cute too, which is going to make my preschoolers quite upset at mommy if they happen to see one caught in a trap or something! Cute varmints are still varmints...*sigh*
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -CS Lewis |
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SC Ranch
Farmgirl at Heart
8 Posts
Southeast
Montana
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Posted - May 29 2010 : 05:52:10 AM
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I am "community" gardening with a neighboring ranch just down the road. They have a huge established garden space and since we are fairly new here I haven't gotten around to preparing a good veggie garden space. I have just a few containers growing. They did the soil prep and we helped plant, later I'll help harvest, can, freeze, and dry, then we'll share the garden goodies. Those of you not having luck in the community gardens, maybe you have a neighbor or friend nearby with space that you can share a garden with?
Stacie
A Ranch Farmgirl living life in Smiling Country
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