Backyard Gardening

[dalebert]

My roommate who works on a farm, had a great idea about doing backyard gardening. Everyone who has some space, and it doesn't take much, can grow one crop and we can swap crops for variety. We can get together to get the gardens going and then people can tend to their own gardens. People who don't have space can possibly volunteer to help out on some of the more high maintenance gardens for others. We grew tomatoes, basil, and a couple other things but the idea is to just focus on one thing each so we can grow it more effectively and easily.

If anyone's interested, we'll probably talk about it some at Social Sunday tomorrow (5th). Mike (the farmer) is coming. Even though it's fall, there are things we can do to prepare the growing areas for next growing season. Mike also works at a coffee shop and can start collecting large amounts of used coffee grounds. We may also want to consolidate composting in one or two places since a single household may not have enough for effective composting.

[David]

I tinkered this year with two large garden pots.  Grew very small canteloups.