“Here’s our garlic haul from our community garden plot at Bruce Monroe Community Garden in Pleasant Plains/Park View.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line and I’ll pick a few winners a week (free PoPville t-shirt or tote bag.)
Photo courtesy of Lindsey
From an email:
“Midsummer Seed Swap and Container Gardening Workshop
Saturday, July 19th
11:00am – 2:00pm
Turkey Thicket Recreation Center Garden
1100 Michigan Ave, NE
Exchange seeds with fellow gardeners and start your own container garden! Repurposed recycling containers will be available, or get creative and bring your own repurposed containers to decorate and plant! There will also be a potluck including food prepared from the garden, so please bring a dish to share!
All ages are welcome!”
“My tomatoes are looking awesome and my cantaloupe will be ready soon!
Community Garden at Euclid and 14th.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line and I’ll pick a few winners a week (free PoPville t-shirt or tote bag.)
Photo by PoPville flickr user elleno1975
Props to elleno1975 for this great haul from 15th and U Street, NW.
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line and I’ll pick a few winners a week (free PoPville t-shirt or tote bag.)
It’s time for this summer’s ‘holy garden haul’ competition – if you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line and I’ll pick a few winners a week (free PoPville t-shirt.) For today:
“We’ve pulled some giant zucchini out of our garden in Brookland this summer (they keep hiding under the big leaves). We’ve now had. 3.5 pound, 4.5 pound, and the latest 5.5 pound. So far squash casserole, roasted zucchini soup, cheesy zucchini quinoa, and chocolate zucchini bread has used up most, but we’re always in search of new recipes! We also have yellow squash, green beans, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, basil, cilantro, kale, spinach, jalapeños, bell peppers, an cherry peppers this year.”
From DPR:
“Wednesday – Raymond Recreation [3725 10th St, NW]- 6:30-8:30pm
Garden Pests and Diseases
Through powerpoint and discussion, we will look at “pests” a little differently than most gardeners do: they are telling us that we are doing something wrong! Let’s dig deeper into truly organic and sustainable agriculture and learn to listen to what the “pests” and ecosystem are telling us. Sprays, whether organic or homemade, are not long-term solutions and can have undesirable side effects. We will start learning to identify all sorts of insects in the garden and learn how they work in order to better design our gardens to achieve balance amongst the wildlife, and still put food on our table! Finally, we will conclude with a visual review of common diseases too and what one can be done to prevent and manage them.
Please register before class here.”
I thought this was awesome – the little wall next to Science Club and the coming soon GRK Fresh restaurant on 19th Street has tomatoes growning:
North Twin Oaks Plot at 14th and Taylor St, NW
A reader passes on the following email about saving the Twin Oaks Garden:
“We are writing to alert you, as members of the community, to a situation affecting the Twin Oaks Community Garden at 14th and Taylor streets NW. As part of the impending large-scale renovation of neighboring Powell Elementary school, the north side of the garden is currently slated for demolition, to be replaced by a faculty parking lot.
This garden is a beautiful space operated by the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), and has been under cultivation for at least seven years by community gardeners, and used for DC’s summer youth programming long before that. Between the north and south sides of the garden, which is divided by Taylor Street, there are a total of 63 10’x15’ plots, five bee hives, three major compost operations, and numerous trees, many of which were just added by Casey Trees.
Twin Oaks gardeners and DPR were not included in the Powell renovation planning process, and only last month became aware of the threat to the garden. We’ve begun a dialogue with the DC Department of General Services (DGS), which is managing the project, to consider alternatives that can both meet the needs of the school and preserve this historic community garden.
Please join us for a public community meeting with DCPS, DGS and DPR to help save the garden and show support for urban agriculture in our community. We believe that with community input and innovation we can arrive at a solution that both improves the school’s facilities and preserves this long-standing green space.
When: Wednesday, June 25th; 6:00 p.m.
Where: Powell Elementary School auditorium, 1350 Upshur Street NW”
Photo by PoPville flickr user johnmcochran2012
Dear PoPville,
I having been renting in Petworth for about a year in a group house with friends from all over the country. I live between two row houses occupied by families, and both have active gardens in the summertime.
This year I decided I wanted to build a raised bed and start my own. While spending a lot of time in the backyard gardening, I noticed that there are two enormous lots that appear to just be sitting there with no one using or tending to them. I think they belong to the city, but I haven’t been able to confirm this… If there is interest amongst my neighbors and the community, I am thinking about submitting a proposal to DPR to start a community garden. I also have a friend who started and managed a community garden that I will reach out to to get advice and pointers.
Any ideas on where I should get started on tracking down the owner of the land? Zillow and Google Maps have not been helpful thus far.
This is potentially really good timing, if District owned, as Council Member’s Cheh and Grosso have have just introduced legislation to encourage community farming on vacant lots –
“An Bill To amend the Food Production and Urban Gardens Program Act of 1986 to establish an urban farming land leasing initiative; to establish a nonrefundable tax credit for food commodity donations made to a District of Columbia food bank or shelter; and to establish a real property tax abatement for unimproved real property leased for the purpose of small-scale urban farming.”
You can read the full bill here – D.C. Urban Farming and Food Security Act of 2014
If the lot is privately owned – any suggestions on how to track down the owner? Would guerrilla gardening be worth a shot?
Phenomenal planting container:
