A Peek Into a Community Garden

Our community garden is open! My spouse planted our onion plants yesterday. 

For all those thinking of gardening, I wanted to give you a little peek into the community garden in Binghamton, New York where my spouse (with a small amount of help from me) does his vegetable gardening.

It's a large community garden - here is some of it.

The agency that now runs it, VINES, has expanded the raised beds section.  This will give opportunities to disabled people to be able to garden.

The new agency also tilled in a lot of organic material. As you can see, a major crop in the garden is rocks.  My spouse has to rake and rake to get all the large rocks out.

What is that yellow stuff?  For beds where weeds have not yet sprouted and you are planting PLANTS, not seeds, we have used (for years) something called corn gluten.  It is a high nitrogen organic fertilizer (the bag we currently have is labeled as being organic) and it will prevent many seeds from germinating for up to six weeks, according to what we have read.

Now the hard work really begins - the raking, the picking out of large stones, working in compost or manure, the planting of the seeds, the weeding, the watering - but, eventually, the eating.

It will taste so good, those vegetables that will taste like they should taste.  And the flowers that will brighten our table.

Here's to the beginning of a fantastic gardening season.  We can only hope, because it's more important than ever to be able to "eat local".

Would you like a gardening feature on my blog, to learn more about gardening?