Greetings all; I am working on renovating a vacant lot into a multifunctional green space including a community garden. The lot is owned by the city, so we have to jump through certain hoops regarding concept designs and working drawings, so it's taking a little longer than we hoped to get things rolling. It seems likely that we will be able to get the space cleared, graded and prepared for the next steps by sometime this fall.
My question is what to do with the perennials that currently reside in the "guerilla" garden on that lot. There are herbs, flowers, strawberries and native edibles that grow there, and we'd like to keep them for the new garden, but they'll have to be removed before the contractors come to dig up the leftover chunks of concrete and level the land. We intend to build raised beds for the new garden, on top of the existing nearly impossible heavy clay soil. Does anyone have suggestions regarding how best to transplant or store strawberry plants, various herbs such as yarrow, comfrey and motherwort, and large perennial vegetables such as Jerusalem artichoke and rhubarb? We would probably have to keep them somewhere over the winter, until new beds could be built for next spring, and there isn't an immediately likely place to transplant them to in the meantime, though I could probably find homes for some of them in neighbours' yards and gardens. I don't think we'll have the preparation done before it's too cold to transplant, but I don't know if some of these can be put back into the ground as dormant roots, even if they won't have a chance to establish themselves before winter. Any suggestions would be most appreciated, as I'd really rather not have these plants go to waste. Thanks in advance, Jeneva Storme ===== Greening West Broadway Coordinator "Neighbourhood Solutions for Community Change" West Broadway Development Corporation 640 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0X3 phone: 774-3534 fax: 779-2203 website: http://www.westbroadway.mb.ca ______________________________________________________________________ Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
