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Community garden space coming to Venable Street
07/22/2010 8:49 AM by John M
On Thursday, July 29, Community Roots and Home Depot will build and plant 4 raised beds for a new community garden in the vacant lot at 22nd and Venable Street. Different from most of the other community garden spaces in the area, these 4 beds will be open to use by anyone in the neighborhood — none of these spots will be claimed by any one person, and the maintenance and produce are hopefully to be shared by the community.
Very nice, this will only be a few blocks away from where I am moving in the next week or so.
This is my first post, but I have read CHPN for a while now. But in the next week or so my room mate and I will be moving into the yellow BHC house on the corner of 26 and P. We are looking forward to moving to the area and meeting everyone.
Oh, the produce will be shared with the community, alright!
Excellent news on the community garden!
Mvallen, welcome to the neighborhood and congratulations on the new home! I live just down the street from you in another BHC home. By the way, I’m really jealous of the awesome, mature tree in your back yard.
I don’t see how such a concept can work. Plants and other supplies are expensive, and maintaining a garden plot with healthy plants and free of weeds is extremely labor intensive and time consuming. If the community can harvest without having to make any time commitment, I don’t see how any gardener in his right mind would work to produce a bunch of crops that others take.
from each according to his talents, to each according to his needs
**** Luke.. maybe beacause it is community…
Some gardener start from seed and have extra plants which they might give to such a garden.
MVallen, welcome to the neighborhood! Always nice to have new neighbors!
Luke, perhaps…just perhaps people won’t steal other’s crops. Maybe a few houses go in and plant a bed together and take turns working on the plots. It’s a start and it really can’t be that bad for the neighborhood can it?
Magneto and SEW, thanks for the welcome.
EDS, I think that is a great idea as well. When ever anyone starts something from seeds, there always tend to be extras, at least with my experience in seed starting. I started two flats of seeds this winter and there was there was no way that I could plant all 50-75 tomato and pepper seeds that sprouted; especially because I was container gardening.
But it is a little late in the season to be putting a vegetable garden in. Maybe some late harvest produce could go in. But I don’t know I’m still a novice when it comes to veggie growing.
Pumpkins and squash can go in now for late fall harvest. So can root veggies. Once the heat tones down, cabbage, kale and collards can go in. Is someone from UHCA in charge of this?
EDS,
Yeah, it’s a community where we already have issues with people taking products from gardens that are clearly not open to everyone. Broadcast that it’s open to everyone, and you can just expect such type of theft to increase, yet you’ll be sanctioning it this time.
I start from seed, and I have had extra plants. If you just take an extra plant and plant it, yet don’t continue to spend significant time throughout the season weeding, watering, and fertilizing, that plant will quickly become a dead plant.
But hey, EDS, go ahead and try it. I’m just pointing out why it’s a stupid idea.
Oh, and I never realized that “communities” were about people doing other people’s work and giving away the product of such hard work.
I am so happy about this project. I for one would be glad to grow plants for others to take if it means people from the community get fresh produce. Not sure it will be enough to sustain the community but it would be fun.