*Of Fire Hydrants* I have a couple of questions in regards to using water from fire hydrants for inner-city gardening. The garden that we're setting up is located next door to a low-income health clinic and is willing to let us 'borrow' water - but it's at an inconvenient location and would require many many feet of hose - while we have a fire hydrant on our property of the garden. So if you have any experience working with the city for fire hydrant use - please let us know. Especially if you have any model policies or sample ordinations coordinated through the city/water department.
Specific questions: - Did you have to obtain a permit from the city (council, mayor) or fire department? - How (if so) did you go about obtaining a permit? - Physically speaking, what sort of hook-up/attachment arrangement did you use in order to use water from a fire hydrant? - Are others in the city allowed to use fire hydrants in a similar fashion - for watering gardens? - How is water use monitored? By whom? *Of Fertilizers* We're also hoping to find a good store brand organic fertilizer to promote to folks doing vegetable gardening in the city. On the farm we mix our own - but that's not typically convenient for regular backyard garden types. So if you have any recommendations for organic fertilizers - relative cost schemes and analysis of their N-P-K content - please pass that info along. Peace, Bethel Erickson -- Bethel Erickson World Hunger Relief, Inc. Urban Gardening Intern 254-799-5611 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080923/f91d7455/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
