There are many practical lessons that can be learned when you visit a local community garden or allotment garden.
For one, there are techniques employed there that are imaginative and often they are a reflection of the experience that the gardeners themselves have brought to the garden. The use of recycled materials reflect the resourcefulness that has been made famous by many gardeners before us.
The prodigious use of compost as a soil amendment and natural fertilizer is consistent in all of the most successful gardens that I have visited of this type. Also, consistent attention to weeding and watering provides these outstanding results. In this garden over 2,500 pounds of food are produced in 8,000 sq. ft. of space.
Mark
