Baltimore's City Hall vegetable garden: a first look
Photos courtesy of Angela Treadwell-Palmer
Landscape designer Angela Treadwell-Palmer gives us a first look at her plans for the second City Hall vegetable garden in Baltimore.
Instead of the fussy Victorian style of last year's garden, which made maintenance and harvesting more difficult, Treadwell-Palmer is using a more minimalist, modern approach this year.
The vegetables will be planted in large squares that exhibit their different colors. The result will give a kind of giant quilt look to the garden.
This year, the garden will also more closely meet the needs of Our Daily Bread, the city's soup kitchen which feeds more than 700 homeless men and women each day and received more than 2,000 pounds of produce from the garden last summer.
The staff there asked for more greens and beans and fewer "exotic" vegetables, such as eggplant or okra, which defied attempts to make large quantities.
Categories: Baltimore's City Hall Garden
Comments
hey while you are at it, can you bathe the homeless, too? then maybe give them a nice massage and a manicure. since our taxes are paying for all of it, you might as well do it right.
Posted by: oz | March 11, 2010 2:03 PM
Our Daily Bread is Catholic Charities. The Master Gardeners who tended the City Hall Garden last year were, reportedly, volunteers.
As John Lennon wrote, oz, Instant Karma's gonna get you...
Posted by: Eve | March 12, 2010 10:03 AM