Sunday, April 11, 2010

Cleaned up gardens!

Garden Clean Up Day at Hummingbird was a big success - despite winds gusting to 70 km/h! A bunch of people turned up to pitch in and pick bricks, pull weeds, and move rubble. Brian brought his trailer and hauled all the bricks away, along with other miscellaneous rubble. Many hands made light work of picking up anything that didn't blow away.

We also moved some raspberry suckers from the side of the garden plots into the separate raspberry bed. Many of the plants from last year managed to grow legs and walk away over the winter, but there were plenty of suckers coming up in the beds to replace them.

The old plots are now tilled, and will soon be re-staked ready for planting (cold weather crops only!). The new plots have also been tilled over once but will likely need another tilling before they are ready to use. We hope to have everything ready to go by the beginning of May.
Hard work and silliness at garden cleanup!

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