Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Susan Reimer

Just add water.

That's all the Baltimore neighborhood of Oliver is asked to do.

More than 200 volunteers from Fiskars, the garden tool company, Home Depot, the city of Baltimore and the neighborhood are working right now to create a garden sanctuary - in a single day.

They are building eight raised beds to hold 150 fall vegetable seedlings. Around the vacant lot on North Central Avenue they will plant 400 annuals, perennials and shrubs and more than 30 new trees. 

There will be benches for visitors and room for tents to hold revivals and community events just as they did here years ago.

All the community is asked to do is water the new garden. And the city installed a water line overnight to make it easier.

Master gardener Joe Lamp'l, who designed the project for Fiskars, said the project cost about $94,000 - half of what it might have cost without the corporate and city donations and the volunteer labor.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixons is due at the garden at 5 p.m. today for a ribbon cutting. There is still plenty to do! 

Stop back here are Garden Variety for a look at the finished garden.