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posted April 12, 2006

Wishlist From Riverdale Meadow Community Garden

From Kyla Dixon-Muir:

Our garden has no paid staff and receives no funding at all. Everything we have there is stuff I manage to beg or scrounge.Would you consider posting our garden's Wish List? There's still so much we need, and I'd love to take any useable donations that you don't need over there which might otherwise be trucked to Michigan... My gardening address: mudpies@sympatico.ca

There's still so much more to be done. (Remember when I first brought those raspberries to you, from what I called the 'abandoned garden'?...)

My husband does have an extended-length van, so we could pick up donations.


2006 Wish List

Living Things:

Rose Bushes (Rugosa, or Ontario Native Species)

Fruit trees / bushes

Perennial herbs

Ontario Native Species wildflowers

Structural:
Fencing

Welded Wire, rectangular aperture; and/or T-Bars; (To extend the height of our current 4' tall farm fencing; and discourage trespassing, theft, & vandalism) Garden is ~ 50' x 50'

Chicken Wire (to keep dogs and rabbits out)

Trellising (or lumber to build it) for our grape vines

Lattice to build a shade arbour (our garden is full sun, no shade at all)

Irrigation

Water Barrels (& mosquito-proof covers)

PVC pipe & connectors to hoses (~ 300' to go around parking lot between garden & school)

Soaker hoses (for our community raspberry patch)

"Posts" for the perimeters of our 25 plots (to keep the watering hoses in the pathways)

For Growing

Free-standing shelving (which we could wrap in plastic to create a temporary greenhouse) for hardening-off seedlings grown in members' window-sills -- or some small form of greenhouse system or solar pod (Note: nothing big enough to become "habitat for humanity": we are located right next to the Don Valley, where there are numerous vagrants, and is no neighbourhood watch)

A sturdy outdoor work table -- which we could stake to the ground (for carpentry, potting, members' meetings, and fundraising sales…)

Plexiglass, in any size (for building coldframes or temporary greenhousing, or to sheath our perimeter fencing and make it climb-proof)

For Comfort

Seating on which to rest (chairs or benches, which we could stake to the ground -– but nothing on which someone could stretch out to sleep…)

Doing The Work

Leather Work Gloves: 6 – 8 pairs (ours now have patches on the patches)

Garden or Construction Tools (edging spades, hand cultivators, garden forks; a sledgehammer, post pounder, drill bits & driver bits; galvanized Robertson screws, spiral nails, construction-gauge wire, vise grips, …

Untreated lumber, patio stones, bricks . . .


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