With the help of a dozen or so gardeners, the Perkins Community Garden at 1625 Perkins NE is on its way to getting ready for the 2010 growing season. On Tuesday night, gardeners cleaned out the main garden bed and collected trash from around the site for removal by the parks department.
Spring at Perkins - Photo taken by Abigail Violet Nietling Haan (age 6).
In the coming weeks, the garden plots will be tilled twice by tractor and discs. Perkins is expecting to assign garden plots the evening of May 14, weather permitting, so that gardening can begin on May 15. As of this writing, seven plots remain, although only four are of high quality. Perkins organizers expect that all garden plots will be rented up by May 14, if not before.
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