Well our first work party was yesterday and it was a great success. We started the day with a trip to the West Seattle Tool Library to pick up some of the things we would need. On our way back (fighting through West Seattle Garage Sale traffic) we came upon a plant sale on 42nd. A huge "Thanks" goes out to the generous woman who was running the sale who, on hearing about our project, donated quite a few beautiful vegetable starts for the garden. If anyone knows the identity of this kindly "gardening angel," give her a shout out from us.
We got all of the wood for the beds cut and several of us will work throughout the week to assemble the beds. We spread mulch and moved all the bricks across the street and into the garden. We're also moving forward on getting soil and tracking down the rest of the wood chips needed for spreading around the beds.
We had almost all of the gardeners as well as some neighbors and friends working throughout the day. We also got to meet and talk with several more neighbors who stopped by to check on our progress.
Great progress! I'm so looking forward to seeing the new garden when we come out and hoping that we can bring you some GA tomatoes!
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