[Community_garden] Water conservation practices

[Dorene Pasekoff]

Hi, Folks!

Personally, I don't know why you aren't running a line from the tap to the
gardens and then allowing folks to attach their hoses to the line.  

This is what we do at our community garden and if you require everyone to
use a watering wands (no sprinkling heads) and teach "water the ground, not
the leaves" plus have lots of mulch available (we have wood chips and this
year, Borough-made compost), it shouldn't be wasteful at all.  

We also collect rainwater from our two sheds into connected 55 gallon
food-grade plastic drums -- if someone has a small watering job, they can
use watering cans and get it done while other folks are using the hoses.

Have a few people responsible to see that the tap is turned off when no one
is using it, provide lots of mulch materials, collect rainwater for "spot
watering" and everything should be fine.

Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth

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St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA  19460