Gardening

The Coles County Community Garden is across the parking lot from the Charleston Food Forest. It's not the kind where you rent a bed and grow what you want. It's tended by the community and anyone can come pick things to try.

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Today's project was filling a set of trough pots and securing them to the benches of the new picnic table. (This is from Tuesday, but it's after midnight so the date reads Wednesday. See some "before" pictures.) There are 6 troughs total, although one already had wild strawberries in it from earlier. Each bench holds 3 troughs. I got these and a bunch of other pots when Big Lots went out of business.

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Today I took some pictures at the Charleston Food Forest.

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These pictures mostly show the south lot. See the House Yard, South Lot, Savanna and Prairie Garden, and Back Toward the House.

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These pictures are from the left side of the Charleston Food Forest.  See Part 1 Right Side.

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Today I planted most of my new rocks! \o/ I'm waiting to sink the pink mica rock until I get a second one to point the other direction along the road, to catch headlights from both ways.

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These pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight so the timestamp will say Monday. See the savanna and house yard.

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I just found out that American Meadows has a 20-25% off sale going, so I scrambled to make my order.  I usually do it in January.  This place has some of the best native plants, although they also have some garden flowers like gladioli and peonies.  It's worth a look early if you're into wildlife gardening or flowers. They have a lot of hard-to-find plants.

This is the free poem for the November 2024 crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred. It also fills the "green / yellow" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo fest. This poem is about autumn and gardening.

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This concludes the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back, Part 3: Left Back.)

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