Community Giving Garden Is Thriving !!

Look how this garden is growing!! 

Five pounds of string beans were picked just yesterday and will go to the Samaritan Shelter.

 *See Below to VOLUNTEER*

GET INVOLVED!!

A New Mini-Park and "Community Giving Garden" ~ At the Hands Of Volunteers

Downtown Pocomoke City, Maryland

The gazebo that mysteriously appeared one fine day on the corner of Second and Market Streets is part of a new mini-park.

When completed the small park will include seating, a bike rack, trees, flowers, various other plants  and an information station.

In an effort to get the youth involved in their downtown, high school students will be doing the gardening.  In fact, they were supposed to begin tomorrow but I just received word that some of those students have already been to the corner lot TODAY and have planted shrubs and grasses in the area.

ALSO.....

Who wants to garden???

Two charitable and creative Pocomoke residents are starting a "Community Giving Garden" downtown. Location of this garden will be on city owned property at  the corner of Willow and Clarke Avenues.

Groundbreaking will be within the next two weeks.

 The food harvested from the garden will be donated to the Samaritan Shelter and needy Pocomoke families.

If you are interested in volunteering your time - or if you are a business and would like to donate lumber or other gardening needs - please contact: downtownpocomoke@gmail.com

 

Turning Potholes Into Flower Pots

Guerrilla gardener Steve Wheen is transforming ugly and dangerous road potholes in London into mini spring showcases. Cyclist Steve Wheen decided to plant cyclamen, narcissus and polyanthus in the holes after becoming fed up with the state of roads.

The 33-year-old’s green do-gooding is proving popular as his website – www.thepotholegardener.com – has had 25,000 hits in its first month.

‘I’m a mad keen gardener but I live in a small flat without a garden,’ said Mr Wheen, from Shoreditch, east London.

‘I also wanted to make a point. As a cyclist I find potholes a constant menace. I have almost come off my bike several times.

‘And the roads are in the worst state I have ever known in London because of the snow this winter.

‘I choose smaller roads or pavements with potholes and work early morning or evening so that I don’t get run over while gardening.

‘I prefer to use low plants with bright, colourful flowers in the hope that motorists will see my gardens and avoid them.’

But he admits that his colourful work often falls victim to traffic in the capital.

‘My very first effort only lasted two hours before it was destroyed. They have a short life,’ he said.

And the longest any of my gardens has survived is three weeks so far.

‘But, if I can draw a cyclist’s attention to a pothole so that they don’t hit it, and put a smile on their face, that is enough for me.

‘Now I can’t stop looking at potholes wherever I go.’

Fans are quick to suggest potholes across London for him to turn into small – and short-term – gardens.

‘I am following up some suggestions. One is that I try and turn Edgware Road into Kew Gardens,’ he said, somewhat ambitiously.

www.metro.co.uk.com