Spring is in the air, and nowhere is that more evident than at Motueka’s community gardens.
The gardens, located near the skate park on Old Wharf Rd, are being readied for spring planting, with volunteers getting potatoes and spring onions in the ground as well as spreading sawdust on the pathways.
There are both communal gardens and private allotments at the site, the latter allocated at a cost of $2 per square metre. Committee members says that the average allotment size is 30m2, with about a third currently vacant and awaiting new, green-thumbed community members to take them on.
The volunteers are also ramping up their compost-making, following the organic principles that guide the Motueka Community Gardens Trust, which was established in 2012 – two years after the original communal garden beds were started on council land.
Working bees are held each Friday from 9am-12pm, and gardening novices and experts alike are welcome to attend. Donations of tools and plants are also welcome, but the volunteers ask that contact is made first, to establish if they are appropriate. For further information, text Sue on 021 203 5147.
