by Amy Swanson
Welcome!
Getting ready
The Red Sox have their opening day, and so does the Interfaith Garden! Our opening day was scheduled for Tues, March 22nd. However, on Monday afternoon, the 21st, I sat at my desk looking out the window and saw my backyard disappearing under a white layer. Hard to believe we were scheduled to start working at the Interfaith Garden the next afternoon. But Carla knew her garden and said she was planning on it happening, so Tues was on.
Four of us showed up to work with Carla on this raw day– representing First Parish, Islamic Center of Wayland and Hancock. Later we met Maria from First Baptist who stopped by to visit for the first time! We were all met with the blackboard and its familiar message of welcome.
The garden looked pretty barren, but actually it has not been so dormant after all. Carla showed us the Austrian sweet pea that came up after the last harvest. That will be rototilled back into the soil, adding good nitrogen. In another corner, garlic was starting to come up.
Here are some of the tasks we did today:
- Cleaned and oiled some of the tools.
- Cleared the asparagus beds
- Took soil samples from the small garden to be sent away for testing
- Carla sprayed the blueberry bushes with mineral oil to ward off the winter moth.
Tomorrow the garden gets roto-tilled and perhaps on Saturday we will be ready to spread composted manure. One of these days the scarecrow needs to get dressed. His clothes are newly washed and ready to go.
