After much deliberation, and some interesting suggestions. We have now officially named our garden sites- the Original site is now known as ‘ the secret garden’ to denote its slightly hidden location and the new site is being called ‘the orchard’ to help us visualise its future destiny. The planter boxes around the Aro Valley community center and park as known as…..’the park’…lets not make these things complicated

As spring really sets in and summer approaches, many of the plants we initially planted in the  secret garden are beginning to flower and set seed, kale, broadbeans, silverbeet, brocolli etc. So at out last working bee wew had a real puch to harvest as much as we could and remove any plants which were using space inefficiently -  We had to make room for the large new load of plant we picked recently picked up (thanks again Fiskars and Mitre 10!). The Secret garden is now home to, amongst other things: Sweet corn, more currents, chives and peas.

Some great hardy perenials also made their way into the aro valley park planter boxes – camomile, rosemary, sage and some more obscure things you can see in the photos. We had a real puch to plamt things that did not need to much water, as we have not quite clarified how our gardens will survive over the inevitable Aro Valley summer holiday exodus.

Thanks to Bark Ltd and Wellington City Council Parks and Gardens we have a great mountain of mulch turning into compost, so we also spread this liberally around the newly planted beds to help them retain moisture.  The initial mountain we had in the orchard is gradually dwindling.

We will be having one more planning meetin for 09, at which we will finalise our tree order for the orchard…gotta be in early to get the specimens we want, clarify who will be around to water the gardens and make some tentative plans for what should be an awesome year in 2010…. exciting.

Bruce from Fiskars has also been back in touch and discussions are underway about our official opening ceremony…more soon

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