Our regular Friday volunteer group from Warren Wilson College was particularly productive this past week.
Wilson students mulched and fertilized the blueberry trees, reset new posts for the blackberry trellises, weeded three beds with greens still remaining from the winter season, planted one bed in yellow onions, set up drip tape for the recently planted sugar snap peas, and did some clean up along the river of cardboard and old compost piles.
Thanks to the leadership of new Black Mountain Community member Brandon Blissett, the compost bins are ready to use. Brandon, who has a masters in Landscape Architecture, plans to make the new bins a bit more aesthetic within the next week. In the meantime, please place all new compost, including scraps from your kitchen (and your neighbors' kitchens) in the first bin.
In other news, Dr. Wilson visited Painter's greenhouse on Friday and came home with numerous donations for the garden from the ever generous Steve Painter. I look forward to bringing them down to the garden on Monday and increasing our herb beds. If you have any herbs that can be rooted, cut or divided and donated to the garden, please let me know. I would love to plant rhubarb, comfrey, nettles, chamomile, lavender, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano and so on.
I am also looking to plant currants and gooseberries as an understory to the recently planted apple trees. If you have a good source (free?!) for these please let me know. To catch you up, students on Spring Break from the University of Louisville in Kentucky planted 11 apple trees along the border of the future Community Garden Greenway, which will run from the boardwalk under I-40 along the river, then past the garden up the hill to White Pine Dr.
On a final note, if you haven't seen the Nanking Bush Cherries in bloom this week, come down soon, they've been so beautiful.
Wilson students mulched and fertilized the blueberry trees, reset new posts for the blackberry trellises, weeded three beds with greens still remaining from the winter season, planted one bed in yellow onions, set up drip tape for the recently planted sugar snap peas, and did some clean up along the river of cardboard and old compost piles.
Thanks to the leadership of new Black Mountain Community member Brandon Blissett, the compost bins are ready to use. Brandon, who has a masters in Landscape Architecture, plans to make the new bins a bit more aesthetic within the next week. In the meantime, please place all new compost, including scraps from your kitchen (and your neighbors' kitchens) in the first bin.
In other news, Dr. Wilson visited Painter's greenhouse on Friday and came home with numerous donations for the garden from the ever generous Steve Painter. I look forward to bringing them down to the garden on Monday and increasing our herb beds. If you have any herbs that can be rooted, cut or divided and donated to the garden, please let me know. I would love to plant rhubarb, comfrey, nettles, chamomile, lavender, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano and so on.
I am also looking to plant currants and gooseberries as an understory to the recently planted apple trees. If you have a good source (free?!) for these please let me know. To catch you up, students on Spring Break from the University of Louisville in Kentucky planted 11 apple trees along the border of the future Community Garden Greenway, which will run from the boardwalk under I-40 along the river, then past the garden up the hill to White Pine Dr.
On a final note, if you haven't seen the Nanking Bush Cherries in bloom this week, come down soon, they've been so beautiful.
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Today I set a number of young comfrey plants in the comfrey bed, but there were far more from my garden than could be accomodated in that section of garden. As a result, there are 2 pots of comfrey roots sitting by the kiosk that are available for either planting or use in the home garden of others. Don't be fooled by the withered tops on the roots, the roots are quite viable. For more information on using comfrey in the garden see: http://www.the-organic-gardener.com/Comfrey.html.