Central Park Garden Past News ...

For 2012 news about the Central Park Community Garden please click "more" below ....

Summer 2012:

The summer months have brought some great harvests of salad greens, radishes, beets, broccoli, swiss chard, green onions and even a few cherry tomatoes and cucumbers already! There is so much more growing in everyone’s plots as we enter the dog days of summer. Visitors are welcome to come by and tour around as the gardeners tend and water their plots.

In the demonstration plot you’ll find ......Garlic, beets, leeks, asparagus, strawberry spinach, sorrel, chicory, peacock kale, swiss chard, romaine, nasturtiums, magenta mountain orach, rosemary, parsley, asparagus peas, red leaf lettuce, mesculin mix (mustards, kale, arugula & mizuna), mint, bay leaf, squash, corn, okra; asian long, yellow, edemame, and purple beans; red onions, peanuts, yellow zucchini; ground cherry, beef master, yellow & red pear, purple and other heirloom tomatoes; sweet bell and hot peppers; long, oval and white ribbed eggplant; melon, bronze and white fennel, basil, garlic chives, giant golden amaranthus, dill, and marigolds.

The garden’s first food donation was made on Monday, July 9^th from the volunteer tended demonstration garden and community business sponsor supported victory garden beds. With the help of volunteers Tiffany and Gary the veggies donated included romaine, radicchio, leaf lettuce, beets, rutabaga, kohlrabi, swiss chard, dill, kale, and bok choi. Can’t wait for the next donation, it just feels good to be helping out and providing fresh locally grown food direct to Burlington food banks. You can donate from your home garden as well by contacting http://www.foodforlife.ca/ or http://partnershipwest.org/pwfb/

Early Fall 2012

Wow it is hard to believe the first season has whizzed by already. So many people took a stroll around the garden this season to check it out, learned about what community gardens are, or simply added it to their daily stroll to watch the progress. It was impossible to track accurately since garden lovers came by daily. Thank you to all the volunteers and gardeners that welcomed visitors and proudly played the role of garden ambassador answering questions.

Gardeners are currently closing down and clearing out their plots after a bountiful first season. Note to gardeners: The compost bins are full so if you can please bring garden waste bags and take them home again for curb pick up. Parks do not receive this pick up service. I will look into if park staff can help take the excess garden material into their own compost piles.

Here are some pics of the great crops that were grown by the gardeners and amazing volunteers of the Victory Gardens grown outside the fence for food bank donation:

Five donations to local food banks and community church dinners so far this season with one final season donation soon.

Fabulous sprouts Hot & Sweet Peppers

In the demonstration garden: squash, asparagus, herbs, kale, sorrel, swiss chard, corn, okra, cardoon, basil, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes happily spill over the garden frame.

Gene’s basil

Leslie’s potatoes

Mary’s tomatoes

Theresa’s beans

Great sponsors and Colour Red okra

             Purple Hyacinth bean Giant Golden Amaranthus

                                    Magenta Mountain Ora

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