Comments on: Garden on Lawn Extensions

By: carol

carol — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:31:13 +0000

Speaking of the Lost Plots at Zion–does anyone know if the city is considering putting traffic islands down Soule when they repave it this summer? Couldn’t they be used as garden plots? I’m sure they’ll get plenty of sunlight, seeing as how the city came through and hacked at the street trees last month.

By: Jeff McCabe

Jeff McCabe — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:37:48 +0000

RE Steve’s concerns:

When I dug up my extension, I removed a lot of soil and replaced it with city leaf compost. I happened to need some fill for a rock wall I was rebuilding and this killed two birds. I am afraid the hard packed clay full of tree roots is a bigger issue than salt and “fertilizer”. Of course, some simple boxes placed on the surface and filled with topsoil/compost would do the trick.

Jeff

By: Steve Hathaway

Steve Hathaway — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:11:55 +0000

I like the idea of such–it always irked me that the city owned the extension(s) but homeowners had to mow them, etc. This seems like a way to get a fairer use of that patch of dirt.

But can you reassure me about how much salt or other road-related stuff would be in that soil?

And what about those quadrupeds that pause and leave their ‘calling card’?

I’m normally not fussy about such things, but at the moment, I think some part of me would wonder about such things when/if I sat down to a meal of extension grown goodies.

Of course, maybe it’s as simple as ‘washing removes a multitude of sins’–but if this something people have already thought out and answered, I’d be curious to hear what their answers were.

By: Jeff McCabe

Jeff McCabe — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:48:47 +0000

Great to hear you are still planning on digging in the extension. I just walked by your yard this morning and thought how good that front one could be. Let’s talk! I am glad to try to be of some help. I will be digging around my front yard for spots soft enough to spread a few pea or spinach seeds this weekend.