Re: Community garden nutrient inputs

**Tamsin Salehian t*@sparecreative.com**

Tanks Libby,
It is great to hear about what other gardens do, your composting sounds
great. We too have been collecting woodchips from our local arborists so
hopefully when our paths rot down we'll have a good addition to the compost
piles. 

A great permaculture garden in a town about two hours away has the local
council bring in all of the leaves from autumn sweeping (most of our street
trees are non-native deciduous) and they also have a free range organic
chicken/egg farm close by which they collect manure from and create great
steaming piles of compost all winter. A beautiful system and amazing results
from the vegie gardens this is used on. They have the advantage of space and
a bobcat to shift huge mounds of stuff around but awesome system.

I'd like to hear what others are up too as well...

Tamsin

On 27/1/03 6:39 AM, "Libby J. Goldstein" <libby@igc.org> wrote:

> Hi Tamsin,
> 
> Our garden in South Philadelphia is fairly large, 70 gardeners or so,
> so we generate quite a lot of stuff for our compost piles.
> 
> However, we do get wood chips for our paths from arborists working in
> the neighborhood and from Fairmount Park. In due course, the chips
> rot so we can dig them into the garden plots too. Actually, the
> rotted chips in our "truck road" get too deep for trucks or even
> station wagons, and we have to call in the bobcats to push all the
> good stuff to the back of the garden next to the compost every three
> or four years.
> 
> That is not to say that individual plot holders don't add their own
> amendments. I, for one, am very fond of organic mushroom compost,
> phosphate rock and New Jersey greensand, but I only add them every 4
> or 5 years.
> 
> Libby
> 

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