Starting a community garden is a great way to eat fresh produce, socialize with new friends and exercise outdoors. Through its benefits a garden can even help you better manage your diabetes. Here are some tips to get you started.
June 30, 2015
Starting a community garden is a great way to eat fresh produce, socialize with new friends and exercise outdoors. Through its benefits a garden can even help you better manage your diabetes. Here are some tips to get you started.
Enlist a few friends to join you. This will take some of the workload of starting up the garden off your shoulders.
The biggest issue is finding the land to use. You'll need a site that gets at least six hours of sunlight daily and has access to water. See what resources exist in your neighbourhood.
If you're an experienced gardener, you probably already know what you want to plant and when to plant it. But if you are new to gardening, you'll want to do some homework.
The size and experience level of the group you'll need will depend on the size of land you have to plant and how complex you'd like the garden to be.
At the first meeting, decide on issues such whether you want to have individual plots or one cooperatively managed garden and how you'll get funds to start gardening.
Also decide how you'll rotate your weekly maintenance and meeting schedules.
Most of your first work day will be spent preparing the soil.
After the soil is ready, meet for your first planting day.
Starting a community garden takes some work, but the benefits should make it well worth your time!
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