Product Description
More details to come.
Successes recently have included:
- seasonal growing and producing this spring-summer crop:
- sugar baby watermelons, zucchinis and cucumbers, massive tomato (multiple plants and varieties), blueberries, spinach, kale, snow peas, all the allums (onion family), carrots, aniseed (root veg), a range of citrus, lemons, limes, a very large bay tree, eggplant, passionfruit on the way.
- now we are growing a range of flowering plants (bee attractors for pollination) — a large trained bougainvillea growing up to create shaded areas and a star jasmine three large plants trained in a similar way vertically, up to it large trellis area to create shade and produce fragrance.
- successful worm farming — to the point of transferring worms and castings to the garden
- composting of building food waste
- installation of a drip watering system for the entire garden with a timer system.
Challenges:
- raised beds for elderly residents, in particular, are restrictive in their depth
- designing, implementing and applying for grants for accessibility
- unofficial training of residents on how to prune and cut produce instead of damaging ongoing producing plants.
View a story about our garden here: