The Community Garden‘s thriving
It has been a fantastic start to the Community Garden in Martinborough. On Sunday 12th November the first gardening day took place. With the help of some keen workers, four raised beds were sited, prepared and planted. Tyres were also utilised as planting space and two pumpkin mounds were started. Tomatoes, zucchini, pumpkin, silverbeet, spinach, lettuce, basil, beans, carrots and other vegetables and herbs were planted. At the end of the day, tea and coffee were shared to celebrate a successful start to the garden.
Since then regular garden days are underway (Wednesdays 10-noon and Sundays 2-4pm) General gardening duties such as weeding and watering are carried out along with maintenance, one of the most recent tasks being a wind barrier to protect the garden from the famous Martinborough nor’westerly! We encourage all community members to come on down if they can, it is a fun and relaxed environment and is great to be a part of.
As the produce is ready it will be making it’s way down to the larder at the Medical Centre. If you would like fresh, free, organic produce be sure to pop in for supplies.
We would like to thank all of the community who donated their time as well as numerous bits and pieces to get the garden up and running, from chicken manure to compost bins…we are very grateful! A special thanks must go to Stu from Salvage Timbers for contributing towards the raised garden beds and to John Taylor and Jane Owers for kindly offering the use of their land, it is greatly appreciated.
With the summer months ahead we are looking for volunteers to get a watering roster going. If you are able to help on a particular day, please email martinboroughgarden@gmail.com
Lastly, the committee has a number of projects they are working on to make the garden an active part of our community, think more garden beds, seedling and composting workshops to name a few. Be sure to keep an eye out on our facebook page “Martinborough Community Garden” for regular updates.
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