SOUTH GRAFTON COMMUNITY GARDEN

It’s a long way from the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra, but horticulturalist Jenny Marks is very excited about her role as volunteer-green-thumb with the New School of Arts’ Community Garden and she is looking forward to making our acquaintance.

We of the Clarence Environment Centre were invited to participate and so we have. Claire and I visited the sight on the 5th, choosing one of the six, 4.8M x 1M, raised beds.

Claire and Birgit watered and planted tomatoes and cucumbers. Ralf Junger is donating lots and lots of aged horse poo, hearty herbs from his garden, and if you know Ralf, too much advice on how to grow everything his way. I have chilli seedlings to plant next week and Yellow Empress sunflower seeds to pray over. Get behind this venture with donations of edible greenery from your gardens or packet of seeds you would be willing to part with.

Gina Kreindl’s gourd seeds grow into especially hearty little buggers, so I shall plant them against the new trellises, in her honour of course, and they can mingle with kiwifruit and passion fruit, should anyone care to donate these, yes? The garden is funded through Australia’s Open Garden Scheme

-Dolores