Carolina Peace - Mar. 18: Rosewood Community Garden Meeting

Mar. 18: Rosewood Community Garden Meeting

Written by Lori Donath

Thursday, 13 March 2008

There will be a planning meeting for people interested in planting at the Rosewood Community Garden.

When: Tuesday March 18, 5:30 pm
Where: 1100 S. Holly St., behind the Ben Arnold Center.

Please join us if you are interested in planting there, or else call 803-I-GO-CPRC if you can't make it. Click "more" to see information on how to join the discussion list, a map, and notes on the March 4 meeting.

New Discussion List:
Anyone (with email access) who's interested in working on the
project can join the discussion, and can send messages to the others in
the group. (This is instead of everything coming directly from me, or
else ya'll having to type in a list of email addresses that might not
stay current). We'll have to see how much activity we produce! You can
choose to receive the discussion as a daily digest, in the event that we
begin sending several per day. To get on and to see how to use the list,
go to:

http://carolinapeace.org/mailman/listinfo/communitygardening_carolinapeace.org

Call the office (803-I-GO-CPRC) and leave a message if you would be interested in planting with the children in the front flower garden for a couple hours after school M, T, or Th.

We will have separate meetings later on about 1) planting at the Edisto Court Garden and 2) interest in the third annual children's summer workshop with the Boy's & Girl's Club.

Tues., March 4 Meeting Notes

Karlann, Mike, Lewis, Kim, Billy and I met in the rain and surveyed the
back Rosewood (Ben Arnold) Community Garden. Lewis brought rainbow chard
seedlings to share; the collards and kale he planted are doing
great--the cabbage not quite as well. We decided to maintain the garden
at its current size, but add borders with wood or such to protect it
from lawn mowing, which I am looking into. We will flip last year's plan
that Matt and Emily made (maintaining their berm contours), with some
additions such as green beans. Kim is coming up with design/planting
details. Karlann's letter to Mr. Ben Arnold met with no response. (Note:
last year someone from the City met with me to brainstorm water
conservation--and gave us seeds and other resources--but could not help
us with watering with their mobile tank. In 2006 Parks & Rec. had said
it would be too much to put in a spigot). We decided to improve the
water collection but keep it simple. Mike is working on designing a
platform for putting Pepsi Co containers on at each of the gutter down
spouts; Karlaan is contacting Pepsi (tho I could do this Karlann). At
this point the idea is to put screening on top and a spigot at bottom
and continue hand watering. At the next meeting we'll all report back,
and will exchange seeds and divide up planting.