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CDC – Charlemont Street Communal Garden (4/5 week)
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Monday March 26, 2012 20:52 by CDC - Dublin Citizens defence Committee
Today (25/3/12) the CDC in cooperation with residents in Charlemont Street continued to work on a communal garden for the area. “As we entered the 4-5 week of our gardening, the fruits of our labour have finally started to materialise.” |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2And provides organic compost for the next years crop. Mulch gives back its strength to the land and provides tilth that impoves the plantability for next year. Barn straw with manure mixed in it is best, and won't blow away in the wind. Loose hay sometimes does.
You see in agri-buiz the factory farms don't put back the amount of organic matter that they take out in a crop each year. Just adding chemicals and poisons (against weeds) means your soils will, in time, become less and less fertile and the chemicals take over the taste. Your food then tends to look good but becomes tasteless and without nutrients from compostables returning to the land, it becomes less good for you.
Build the organic gardens everywhere and in each village, town, and city there ought to be a plan for communal gardens with a spare board and a regular board. Unity is strength. Workers of the world, unite!! You yet have a world to win!!
It's good to come across a pleasant community-based piece of news. Post more info, progress reports and photos as we meander through late spring into summer and onwards to the autumn. Good luck everybody involved.