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Greenfingers project offers gardens to public
I ¡he return of warm,
lays the urge to till the
■plant a garden becomes
■lining to some.
This
L can be frustrating to
Ljo have no
place to
warden.
■unity Services at the
■ has an answer to the
lanquish caused by these
Jdplantingand nurturing
IcallProject Greenfinger,
¡project allows any resi-
|the College district to
harden on land provided
I College.
The College
I the soil, fertilizes
it
Lmical and organic fer-
|and waters it after it is
¡They even had a limited
[of seed available in the
In to them by seed com-
[the prospective gardener
Ido is plant the seeds,
le garden and harvest the
you don't have to live in an
apartment-it's open to anyone."
According
to Bloomquist,
many people have taken advan
tage of this service in the six
years it's been offered.
So
many, that they have increased
the number of garden plots from
120 six years ago to 216 this
year.
These plots occupy approxi
mately five acres next to the
pole barns near the Smuckers
art center.
"In the past
two years,"
Bloomquist said, "we had a few
gardens go unused but before we
had a waiting list and I think
that discouraged some people
from applying."
With the increased number of
gardens and of people utilizing
this service the biggest problem
seems to be with those who
don't realize how much work it
takes to grow a successful gar
den, Bloomquist said.
"These people become dis
couraged with their gardens and
the weeds get out of hand and
then they abandon it," he said.
Some people who already
have gardens at home take ad
vantage of the space offered by
the greenfingers project.
"They use this for corn, po
tatoes or squash, things that
need more land," Bloomquist
said.
Surprisingly enough,consider
ing the problems Portland's
neighborhood garden
projects
has had with vandalism and
thievery in its gardens, there is
little vandalism in the Green
fingers
plots,
according to
Bloomquist.
"Campus security checks it,"
he said, "and we provide identi
fication cards for those who
garden there with the idea that
this allows security to have some
thing to check to make sure that
people really belong in the gar
den area."
Beginning this week, regis
tration for the 26-by-27 foot
plots, will be open to the'public.
Cost of these gardens is $2 with
a limit of two per person.
Anyone
interested - should
either go to community ser
vices, in Barlow Hall and pick up
a registration card or call 656-
2631 ext. 232 and have one
mailed to them. Gardens will be
available'for planting about May
1, depending on the weather.
In I say any resident I
it," said Gib Bloomquist,
por of Community Ser-
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I
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