Tomorrow the Community Garden is going to be judged for the local Garden Competition. The garden itself will fit into the Commercial Category, and the Waterwise Section. I don't really think we will win either but what may win is the individual plots of which 6 have been entered. The only other entry was one at Woolgoolga Community Garden. If one of these wins then the person gets $100. If we win the whole garden we get a trophy. We also need to open the garden 10am to 4 pm Sat. and Sun. next week.
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| Pink Lady Sweet Peas - Diggers |
John and I have both entered a plot each and will donate back to the garden with the money, if we win. Both of them I started, the square foot garden and one filled with lettuces.
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| Red and Green Cos, Freckles and Red Tipped Mignonette |
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| Sq. foot taken last week, I added a few bits today.. |
My way of thinking is the competition is at the wrong time for vegetables. The lettuce are finished and on the way to seeding, meanwhile the spring planting has only just begun due to the frosts in August. If I had entered my own garden, the flowers are all just showing and looks beautiful, and still have the cabbages, cauliflower and broccoli in, and we didn't get the frost.
I am not entering though, as not interested in so many visitors arriving to view all weekend and I won't be there all day as at the Community one and doing a scrap booking retreat.
So we have all been very busy pruning, growing, weeding, mowing and generally tidying up all month to get ready, then yesterday the concreters decided to start doing the pavilion.They mapped everything out for digging up the grass and laid out rope then put the orange fence up to protect us all.
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| Nearly all the quadrant is fenced off |
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| Crusher dust at the ready. |
Oh well, the judges do mention they take in account work in progress, but I think they meant seedlings.
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| Google Map. |
From the above map you will see where the pavilion is actually going and also how we still have to finish off the final path to complete the oval. This will take a working bee, crusher dust and a machine to stamp it all down. The 4th. quadrant though now holds garden beds for the cut flower section.
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| Flower Beds running along the edge of what will be the last Oval Path. |
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| Sunflowers |
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| Cosmos |
The garden has never been so neat to the point it is hard to find work other than watering and weeding, if you can find them, plus today a bit of extra mulching.
The final bank bed which is between the road to be and the orchard area had been dug out, so we planted a few of the plants still in the bush house, with no where to go, plus a few from home. Hippeastrums, a Buddleia, Croton, Red Frangipani,Cotton Hibiscus, have all been planted plus a red leaf thing I don't know the name of.
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| Last Bank Bed, to the left is the road, then the path. To the Right the Orchard |
The half water tank made of plastic was finally divided up into three, the bottom one a pond, and two side ones for maybe strawberries or flowers. These are on the corner of the last quadrant, and the flower beds go all the way around.
Now we have put in some water plants plus ready to add some reinforcing rod to stop kids hopping in. This is what is used when doing a concrete bed to make them firm and hold weight.
Monday 17th I will get a phone call to open the gate then we will know how we did. Stay tuned.
Till next time.
Good luck! I hope you win the competition Chris! 😊
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