Today some of the members from kitchen gardeners society went to Men of the Trees nursery in Henley Brook to work on making a community garden part of their existing native seedling nursery. Along with some City of Swan volunteers and Adele from MOTT we had a super force to get down and dirty to transform a patch of unused lawn into a edible work of art! I'm not exactly sure who came up with the wagon wheel design for the garden, but it looked amazing when finished and much more interesting than standard box shaped garden beds.
Along with getting a heap of work done, we also got lots of excitement by being chased by bees housed nearby with poor Steve getting the majority of the bees wrath. We got up to planting seedlings into the center corrugated iron raised bed and some herbs in the giant tractor tire wheel. The main wagon wheel beds still need some additional soil improvement before plants can go in, but we were running low on soil improver so those were left for another day. Here's hoping the crew at MOTT take what was started today and run with it into a productive, edible plot!
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| How things looked when I first arrived, work already in progress. |
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| Digging trenches for the wooden beams to go into to create the garden edges |
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| Wooden garden edges finished going in |
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| The girls hard at work! |
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| Soil and mulch being added to the main raised bed |
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| Steve and Pete pre-bee attack looking happy and unstung. |
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| Happy gardeners! |
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| Soil going in |
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| Some of the MOTT volunteers having a sticky beak shortly before the bee attack! |
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| Moving tire into position |
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| Seedlings! |
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| Garden paths after gravelling |
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| Kitchen gardeners after a great effort! |
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| The crew! |
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