Recycled metal flower bed at 4th Street.
Our bag garden fitted with strawberries.
We’ve had a couple of very successful new gardens set up in Albuquerque in the past month. I’m busy balancing the writing of my book, consultations and workshops. Somehow spring seems to be bypassing us again in Albuquerque, pushing winter later into the year and now with near 80 degrees coming toward us by the end of this week, we may just fly over that season all together.
Here are some photos from our workshops on 3/21 at the North 4th Sustainability Center and on 4/18 at The Source on South Carlisle both in Albuquerque. Above-ground gardens are so much easier to start and maintain in our changeable and quixotic landscape. Straw bale gardens maintain a more even soil temperature and moisture so plants are less stressed. Tire gardens can be set up nearly anywhere–on a roof or under an eave or tree. Try it! You can see how happy they make folks….
The mighty sheet mulchers on North 4th Street from New Mexico Youth Organized
Starting the lasagna beds
Filling up the straw bale
A crop of happy gardeners at The Source!
