[Green] Fort Street Update

[Rebecca Phillips]

Hello, all,

I am pleased to report that our plantings are doing well. Unfortunately, so are the invasives. A small team of us has been meeting at 7:45 on Tuesday mornings to tackle the nasties, and more team members are always welcome. If anyone is interested in setting up a subcommittee to plan further work on the site, I would be most grateful. As the site expands, it will benefit from a planning team.

Needs that I have noticed (so there are probably others):

  *   Watering schedule. Hot, dry weather is hard on young plants.
  *   Removing plants that have grown up between the sheets of solarization plastic. Some are actually desirables, like silphium, but we can only use so many eight-foot yellow daisies. I have whacked some back but have not attempted to clamber around alone.
  *   Extra black plastic for patching. Does anyone have any you are willing to part with?
  *   Weights for the plastic--more of the flat cat litter or similar jugs (heat and sun have caused some to deteriorate and leak, and at least one got hit by a lawn mower), bricks, blocks, or rocks

Other news:

  *   The soapwort we left to hold the soil has spread a bit too aggressively. I have messaged Andrew about replacing it with some "enthusiastic" native plants currently sitting around on my patio. If the available species are okay, we will need a planting party.
  *   An acquaintance stopped me at the farmers market and handed me a $20 donation for plants for the project.
  *   Harmar Days may be spilling over onto Fort Street. Who might be available to staff a table with information on native pollinator plantings and the Homegrown National Park project?

And a question: what is the best place to get informational signs printed? And the best place for sign holders?

Rebecca

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero
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