[Community_garden] Path Construction

[Mike McGrath]

agreed. don't walk on the dirt!
                                            ---McG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Casto" <lindacasto7430 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <carlhenn at comcast.net>; <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Path Construction


> Carl, I understand what you're saying about more land to garden, but each 
> time you walk through your garden bed you're compacting the soil.
>
>  Our garden is divided into community (given to food banks or sold) and 
> private.  On the community side we have 2' wide paths.  On the private 
> side we offer to mark off paths but let our gardeners decide what they 
> want to do.  Most of them opt for the paths so they don't have to walk 
> through their garden beds.
>
> carlhenn at comcast.net wrote:
>  Our garden also had success with newspaper under woodchips, and get the 
> woodchips for free from our City Government. We also get truckloads of 
> leaves from the City. The leaves get nicely beat up in the collection 
> process and make a good mulch. Each truckload we take saves the City about 
> $200 in tipping fees. Another thought is to eliminate paths where they 
> aren't necessary. We just put in stakes to show the edges of plots and 
> allow neighbors to garden right up to each other. No path means no path 
> maintenance and more land available to garden.
>
> Carl Henn
> Rockville Community Garden Committee
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