Thursday, November 22, 2012

A Community Garden

We went down to the Westminster Church Community Garden today after Thanksgiving dinner.  It's quite a nice and large garden.  I took alot of pictures.  I noticed though that they seemed to be letting alot of plants stay in the ground too long.  The lettuce seemed really large and tall, and rangy at the top -- so I think it had bolted.  Also, some of their swiss chard was beyond massively tall.  There were other plants there that were really big, that I didn't really recognize.

I'm not sure whether we were supposed to be inside the garden or not.  It was after hours, it was gated, and they had locks on each gate.  However, one of the gates was a double door -- and by pulling the door stake out of the ground, and by swinging it out, you could get both gates open without needing to remove the lock.

Sooooo...  not exactly the most legit start to Thanksgiving.

Here are the pictures I took:


Lettuce that has bolted


Broccoli -- one of the guys is still small and already has a head on it

Bird houses

Massive swiss chard



A pyramid trellis


Cabbage




A MASSIVE carrot ready to be plucked

Really nice work bench....  I want it!





1 comment:

  1. Food production is central to many community gardens, not all have vegetables as a main focus restoration of natural areas and native plant gardens are also popular,
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