[Community_garden] Starting from scratch: the small CommunityGarden

2007-02-22 Thread jude carson
Hi Susan et all; As one who had a similar interest in gardening and starting a community garden, I share both your enthusiasm and concern. From someone who is still learning after seven years of running a community garden, here are a few suggestions: * Definitely try to get other interested

[Community_garden] Giant hostas and coffee grounds

2007-02-22 Thread Jennifer L Barricklow
I suspect that sprinkling coffee grounds benefits the hostas at City Hall more as a slug deterrent than as a fertilizer. Slugs love to chew hostas to shreds but can't stand to crawl over crumbly/pokey things like coffee grounds. Crushed oyster shells work as well, but don't blend as nicely with

[Community_garden] Giant hostas and coffee grounds

2007-02-22 Thread Laurie J. Hughes
We use coffee grounds as an ant deterrent in our garden. I wasn't a believer until I took an apple core and coated half of it with coffee grounds and set it near a known ant hill. Coated half soon covered with ants, but nothing on the grounds side. I decided I wanted to push the experiment

[Community_garden] Community_garden Digest, Vol 107, Issue 3

2007-02-22 Thread Kristin Faurest
Hi everyone! I am looking around for good examples of cities where an organization (i.e. a nonprofit such as a neighborhood design center or similar group) employs a director of community garden initiatives whose job is focused on upgrading current gardens, introducing opportunities for

[Community_garden] Update on attempted destruction of gardens for Olympics

2007-02-22 Thread Sharon Gordon
They were trying to destroy and even older piece of common land to move the allotments to that location. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361776.html Sharon gordonse at one.net

[Community_garden] combination lock

2007-02-22 Thread Chun, Stacie
How about a combination bicycle U-lock. They are harder to open. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of Susan Finlayson Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:12 AM To: community_garden at