Community Garden Rotation

With Spring now here, it is time to rotate the crops in our Community Garden. The seeds that we planted at the beginning of the term were now ready to transfer into the gardens.

Last week we cleared the carbon crop gardens and prepared the new compost heap. At 11am today, joined by Gordon from Transition Matamata and Tamara, everyone had specific jobs to do in order to prepare the new beds. Plots needed to be dug over and compost added from our compost heap; old plants removed or transferred to their new garden; new seedlings and potatoes planted and carbon crops sprinkled such as pumpkin seeds to add nutrients to the soil.

A good watering to finish things off and now we wait for the crops to grow.