Greetings from Orange Blossom Community Garden in Sarasota, Florida where the weather today was perfect for spring gardening (a beautiful sunshine filled 74 degree day, the bugs aren't out yet).? The past few weekends at our garden have seen 20-30 individuals franticly working to get their spring garden planted.? Our new gardeners aren't complaining, but the old-timers know that they are bound to have?some aching muscles from all of their hard work in preparing their plots.?
You can check out our most recent publicity at http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090208/ARTICLE/902080334.? The reporter was so impressed with the sense of community at our garden that she filled out the application for a plot and wrote the check on the spot.? She also returned the next day with her daughter's application and check. All of the "old tire" banter on the list serve sounds like everyone in the cold, frozen north has a severe case of cabin fever that comes only after you have worn out all of your new seed catalogs.? We welcome visitors and our economy can certainly use the tourist $$$.? You?are always?invited to drop by Orange Blossom and lend us a hand if you are suffering from a lack of dirt under the fingernails.? We are notorious for sharing our fresh veggies so you might even leave with a garden fresh salad and a ripe tomato. Seriously, I can't believe that anyone would want to use old tires in an organic community garden although I have seen tire planters in yards through out the rural south where people also tend to use the wrecked and worn out cars for lawn decoration.? I am a southerner so I have a right to comment on these things.? (My idea of the perfect horror movie involves kudzu, old cars, and an old school bus and I refuse any further discussion of kudzu). One of my co-workers does use the rubber tire mulch in an interesting manner:? for pre-emerge in places where she doesn't want any weeds to come through her ground cover plants.? I find this totally appalling and think that it speaks well to the potential toxicity of the material.? I didn't need to read any fancy research papers to arrive at my conclusion! Now will everyone please give the old tire discussion a rest.? Some of us are very busy gardening. Barbara Powell Harris Orange Blossom Community Garden Sarasota, Florida PS:? Chris, I am sometimes plagued by the ??? problem on the list serve also.? Email me off the list serve if you have any comments. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090218/e3fc2876/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
