In the meantime I am dabbling with container gardening, so far with just a few plots and some of the plants I did not want to part with. There will be more on that in the future.
Recently my new Strata Council had hired some people to clean up the garden. The gardens here were pretty full but balanced. Just in need of a little weeding. The first step the gardener took was to level the garden with a weed waker. I mean the entire garden, gone to the ground. blooms, stocks, even a rose. And man was it left a mess. It was a little shocking. Then a week or so later a small backhoe showed up. I had read in the council minutes that a backhoe was coming in to fix up the retaining wall. Well when he was gone so was almost all the plant life in the garden. The garden is now bare except three heather, which have dried up and died, and a couple other bushes. They did spread a soil amender, I think it is most likely from the District of North Vancouver dump, a good product using green waste to compost and sell back at a good rate as soil amender.
I believe that the work to the gardens was not only totally unnecessary but also a complete waste of money. It has opened an opportunity however. I have written a letter to the Strata Council about turning the murdered garden into a community garden for the residence of the building. If approved and there is enough interest I am offering my time and service to create a committee to outline the guidelines and such a garden and then get it underway. I am hoping that this can become one of the main themes of my blog and help landless gardeners to do the same thing.
I will print off the letter and deliver it to the council tonight. Wish me luck.
