^{The Growing Together community garden bed will soon have vegetables like sungold tomatoes and Gherkin cucumbers sprouting! Left: Photo courtesy Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0); Right: U.S. Department of Agriculture.}

As we head toward summer, we have planted our community garden bed at Glenwood Gardens. If you’re headed to the park to walk the trails, look to your left and you will see our beautiful community bed. Our 4-foot-by-8-foot bed has three varieties of tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, radish, peppers, cauliflower and squash growing. To keep the pests out, we have added some high deer fencing. Don’t worry though – the whole front can be opened like a door so that we can all enjoy the garden bed.

We planted our bed on June 7, and loved engaging with all our park visitors. First, the bed needed to be weeded, as our special homemade dirt had lots of volunteer plants from our compost pile. Most of our volunteer plants found their way back to the compost pile, but we did decide to keep one healthy-looking vine. Check back next month to see what it produces.

Our community bed is being planted using a square-foot gardening technique, which tries to maximize the space used. Each square foot is planned and planted based on the size of the plants being grown, packing in as much as possible. Our radish plants can have 16 plants per square foot! See our garden plan below, and join us by planting at home or visit our bed at Glenwood Gardens.

Garden Plan: Growing Together Community Garden Bed

Gherkin Cucumber	Mr. Stripey Tomato	Cherokee Tomato	Sungold Tomato	Lettuce	Radish	Carnival Pepper	Cauliflower
Gherkin Cucumber	Mr. Stripey Tomato	Cherokee Tomato	Sungold Tomato	Lettuce	Radish	Carnival Pepper	Cauliflower
Gherkin Cucumber	Mr. Stripey Tomato	Cherokee Tomato	Sungold Tomato	Lettuce	Radish	Carnival Pepper	Cauliflower
Gherkin Cucumber	Mr. Stripey Tomato	Cherokee Tomato	Sungold Tomato	Lettuce	Radish	Carnival Pepper	Cauliflower

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Follow the Growing Together journey of creating community, square-foot gardening beds and what crops we’re planting.

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The Glenwood Gardens Growing Together Team