Garden Manager Joan Embree writes,
In our new (probably temporary) location, we are making an "instant" garden using old wash tubs, straw bales, kitty-litter buckets, discarded 3-gallon-or-better nursery pots and other random containers. We even have some old tires we're going to plant flowers in. We're asking if you can contribute:
- your help
- empty containers
- spoiled feed bales
- top soil
- manure
- unused bags of compost
- landscape fabric
- plant starts
Last Saturday's garden workers, pictures from Carla Cope
Joan writes more about tomorrow's workday,
We will work at the garden site Saturday starting at 8:30 a.m. We know this is too early for some of you, but we worked in the afternoon last week and it was a little on the warm side.
To date, we have planted tomato plants in hay bales Carla found for us and pepper plants in cat-litter buckets we've modified for drainage. We now have three potential "beds," thanks to Phil Archeuleta, who loaned us some of the curvier timbers from behind a bean elevator. Tomas repaired the chain link fence so that it's more upright, and we have installed one of our Mountainair Community Garden signs where it is visible.
Saturday, we will plant seeds or seedings in our boxes and beds and finish planting the pinto beans and sunflowers along the front fence. There may be some digging in the beds, too AND we'd like to establish a compost pile somewhere. Got suggestions?
Addie has offered us the loan of some of her hoop covers for our beds and I have some landscaping cloth. We will get the beds and the watering system set up first, then see if and when we need the extra shade. We still need containers and good soil but have sources for manure now and still have some at the Mojave Rose that we could move to the new beds. Our planting space is going to be pretty limited, so we don't need a lot.
Hope you can come Saturday and help with our adventure in "instant gardening."
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