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Our fruit trees have arrived! Here are some photos of the gorgeous citrus trees that arrived early this morning. If you want to see the mango, banana and other fruit trees, you’ll just have to come to the garden tomorrow for the big planting! This …
Join us on Saturday, July 18th, to plant fruit trees and an urban food forest at Parkway-Tedder Community Garden! When: Saturday, July 18th from 8:00am to 1:00pm Location: 100 NE 44 St, Pompano Beach at Parkway United Methodist What: Plant 50 citrus trees and 90 …
Mark your calendars, July 18, 2009, we will be posting more details here soon but that’s the next big day of major tree planting. 8:00 Am to 1:00 PM, get your pickaxes and shovels ready.
Also Two other great Workdays before the big event:
This Saturday, July 11th
Mapping and Marking + Mulching
Next Friday July, 17th
Unloading and placing the trees. More details soon….. STAY TUNED
On Wednesday, July 8th, a local youth group will be digging Banana circles! Yes, you heard that right, Banana circles. These are a creative permaculture way of planting tropical banana trees mixed in with sweet potato vines. The end result are plants that like each …
Hope you garden folk had a great 4th of July Holiday! Just a note to say that though we didn’t have a workday Saturday the 4th. The plants have kept on growing and this next Saturday, July 11th, we will get things ready for the …
The morning of Saturday June 27th was a great day for the smaller group of volunteers following up from the big tree-shrub-groundcover planting last Saturday. It was time to stake the trees that were tipping and create an earthier zone over the gravelly sandy rubble by adding layers of mulch to hold water and keep the ground from overheating. 
Kids, youth and adults all scooped and spread the mountains of mulch around the whole planting zone with wagons, pitchforks and a pickup-turned-wheelbarrow. Cool little rock borders were set out to contain the mulch zones and watering hoses and an irrigation system was adjusted as well. Meanwhile on the Parkway front a crew reorganized the equipment shed, hauling out ‘old stuff’ to organize and create space for storing many of the tools needed to keep the Green Garden zone at its growing best. We’ll rest from our labors on July 4th, and be back at it on Saturday July 11th, with more tree planting to follow the week after!
The new plants got a wonderful amount of water on Tuesday. Of course the rain was delivered with lots of wind, blowing intense wind! This had its consequences. Fortunately, though there is a lot of leaning, there is not too much on the lying on …
First off, thank you to everyone that came out! We couldn’t have done it without you. Despite the fact that it was record breakingly hot all day long, I think it’s safe to say that everyone had fun, and it was a great all-around experience. …
Today our first order of trees and groundcover arrived! The plants all look absolutely gorgeous. Everyone showed up around 9:00am or so, and the truck arrived soonafter, and we all got to work on unloading!
It didn’t take long to unload everything, and once it was all unloaded and the truck had pulled out, trees and major plants were put where they are going to be planted, some mulch was spread around, and everything was given a nice watering. Everything is all set for the big workday tomorrow!
Our first tree planting workday is this Saturday, June 20th! We are very excited! We have 324 trees & shrubs and 350 groundcover plants (yes, that makes 774 holes to dig!) arriving Friday morning, and we need to get as many as possible into the …
Our weekly garden meeting was tonight, and it went really well. We got a quick update from everyone, and then split into two groups. One group worked on organizing all of the logistics like volunteers, water, snacks, etc., and a second group focused on trees, …
Our first shipment of trees will arrive at the garden on Friday morning! We’ll have more details posted soon. If you are free that morning and can help us unload them, that would be amazing:-)
We are also going to need lots of volunteers on Saturday to help get all these trees in the ground! The faster we get them planted, the better.
So, this was the second garden workday so far. The goal for this workday was to finish staking out the areas for the plants, and to dig a few holes to see how difficult it was, and how long we thought it would take. Low …