starting a garden behind my workplace!

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on October 3, 2008 at 6:08pm

laugh... okay so since my last post, a crew of fellas have come in and completely gutted the field and are getting ready to build an assisted living home. so..... stay posted~ hopefully there will be some ground left for me to sew some bright & shiny seeds of peace in ;)

good thing i didn't bury the time capsule in that field!

happy autumn, y'all

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on October 3, 2008 at 6:09pm

oh yeah & i think the tires are gone so there will be some minor redesigning as well :)

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Permalink Reply by Amanda White on October 7, 2008 at 12:38pm

Oh man, that's too bad about them gutting your planting field LOL.

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on January 18, 2009 at 12:58am

i know!! thankfully my car broke down so i'd been riding the bike to work & discovered my new 'blank canvas'! ;) (there's a bike trail that goes from 21st street to confluence park [i know that's not what it's called anymore- i'm being defiant ~confluence is the coolest word ever, and 'america' is just a construct really ;] )
little blessings
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Permalink Reply by meleakua on January 18, 2009 at 12:58am

Main Entry:
con·flu·ence
Pronunciation:
\ˈkän-ˌflü-ən(t)s, kən-ˈ\
Function:
noun
Date:
15th century

1: a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point [a happy confluence of weather and scenery] 2 a: the flowing together of two or more streams b: the place of meeting of two streams c: the combined stream formed by conjunction

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on January 18, 2009 at 1:03am

ooo ooo so if you'd like to come play sometime let me know! things are just in the seed stage in my mind... but the planning is about to commence! :) i'm not really sure what the heck i'm doing~ i'm thinking a few edible patches of greens/ fairly self-sustaining things but i know plenty of care will be needed at the start...fruit trees... (i'm hoping that planting pits & seeds & watering them will do it...laugh! we shall see!)

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on March 17, 2009 at 10:17pm

I have been transferred to our 'north' location::: once again i have a guerrilla garden area at the workplace! this one is a brick flower bed that looks like it's been neglected for the past few years~ i did find clumps of potting soil showing evidence of flowers at one point, however.
i have started amending the soil (post-amendment pics above) & a friend is going to help dig 'em out & add some more organic material.... & then we're going to plant!! herbs, greens, flowers...
aaah! feels good to be doing something constructive. spring is a'coming! (70 degrees today!! but nope, not springtime yet! :) )

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on March 17, 2009 at 10:18pm

those are two different sides of the bed, by the way. they just look pretty darn alike right now. it wraps around the building. beautiful! *

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Permalink Reply by Butterfly on May 2, 2009 at 1:24pm

So I am just wondering... how is your new spot treating you and how is your garden coming along? Please do tell, I am excited to see your progress! :O)

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Permalink Reply by meleakua on May 25, 2009 at 6:26pm

Thanks for asking! :) The soil is all nice & amended with compost and peat... wildflower seeds are planted all along the east wall (pic 2 :] ) & sunflowers are already growing along the south wall thanks to some trail mix i left out for the birds that was dumped by some lovely unknowing-guerrilla-gardener hooligans ( :} ) , plus green onions, herbs and other assorted veggies and edible flowers (that's the side closest to the store)!
I don't have any pics at the moment, but will take some this week!
Hooray for gardens! :)

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