After a few rain delays, staff members at GCSAA headquarters were finally able to plant the GCSAA community garden on Friday, May 14. The original plan called for the garden to be planted in late April on or around Earth Day, but heavy rains and committee meetings intervened, delaying the project.
Green Team members Margo Campbell Szabo, Lisa Wick and Noel Hall organized the event and purchased plants for the garden. About 15 staff members joined in weeding last year's garden area and planting flowers, vegetables and herbs in the garden and in containers on the patio.
This year the team planted a "Three Sisters Garden," in which pole beans are planted so that they climb up rapidly growing corn stalks, and large squash and pumpkin plants grow low to the ground, shading the area around the corn and discouraging weeds. Other vegetables in the garden include peppers and tomatoes.
Team members also planted salvia, zinnias, marigolds and alyssum. Both salvia and marigold are supposed to discourage the neighborhood rabbits, and marigolds also repel nematodes and other insects.
If last year's results are a good predictor, GCSAA employees should have a bumper crop in 2010.
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