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posted April 5, 2006
Gardening Friday Afternoons in April 2006
During April, volunteer gardeners will work with park staff person Jenny Cook on Friday afternoons from 1 p.m. There’s plenty of scope for a green thumb, since the park has eleven community garden beds, five of them native-species gardens and two of them food gardens for kids, connected to the community bake oven program. Community gardener Chris Buxton decentralized the compost last year, putting small compost bins into many different locations. In March, Gene Threndyle pruned most of the trees in the little tree nurseries that he planted ten years ago. Soon the wild plums will be in bloom. Maybe this year there will be even more walnuts and hazelnuts than last year, at the southwest corner "Memory of Garrison Creek" garden.
Plants are ready for action
Reema Tarzi and park staff volunteers Mary Sylwester and Corey Chivers worked with Jenny the week after the rink closed, to plant seeds in flats inside the rink house. Long-time park friend Kyla Dixon-Muir brought over four pots of asparagus plants, with instructions ("don’t start harvesting for four years!"). The sugar snap pea seeds have gone into the ground. The tulips donated last year have come up in the new garden near the cob courtyard, and the red maples planted by volunteer gardeners last October, south of the wading pool, are showing buds.
Dufferin Park to get 25 new trees!
And other good news about trees in the park: Uyen Dias, from the City’s Tree Advocacy Planting Program, says:
"We will be planting 25 trees at Dufferin Grove Park...we are waiting to finalize details on who our contractor will be. Ideally the trees will be planted by the end of April, or early May. These are the species: Freeman Maple, Red Maple, Sugar Maple, White Oak, Bur Oak and Red Oak."
After ten years with only one new tree planted by the City, this is wonderful news.
If you want to get involved...
If you like to grow things (or want to learn how) and want to help out in the park, Jenny Cook would love to hear from you. Call her at the rink house at 416 392-0913 or e-mail her at gardens@dufferinpark.ca.