Native Plants!

Today at Campbell Park, we introduced a bunch of native plants to the garden. They were placed at fairly regular intervals around the outside edge of the garden. Hopefully this will help the students to distinguish between the cultivares and natives, and they will learn about the different adaptations that allow the natives to live outside the bed, while most of what we grow and eat is inside the beds.

(Three of the new natives planted around the garden.)

The past couple of days have been full of rain, because of that we had a multitude of baby radishes spring up in the past week. So another one of our jobs today was thinning the radishes so that they have enough room to grow properly. Unfortunately no children came out during our shift today, last week they loved thinning the radishes, and tasting the spicy the roots. 

(Danni diligently digging, dastardly rapscallion radishes.) 

Even though, the past couple of days have been filled with rain, the Campbell Park garden can never get enough water! The soil and beds aren't as established as in some of our other gardens around the city, and it is clear to see that the plants are struggling because of it. The tomato plants in particular seem to be growing extremely slowly. I'm told this is to be expected because the soil doesn't yet have the correct balance of nutrients. I can't wait to see this garden in its prime!

 

(Andréa wisely watering our wonderful plants.)

Derek Kelly