Blatchley Community Garden

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• Sitka Community Schools opens registration for Blatchley Community Garden

Blatchley Community Garden

Blatchley Community Garden

Sitka Community Schools has opened registration for the 2010 Blatchley Community Garden located behind Blatchley Middle School.

Potential gardeners can register for a plot from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday through May 28 at the Sitka Community Schools office at Hames Athletic and Wellness Center. Availability of garden plots is limited, and former gardeners will be assigned their plots from previous years if they register before May 28. Fees for the program are 50 cents per square foot for plots.

Blatchley Community Garden features small plots for families or groups who want to raise vegetables for their personal consumption. This is different than the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden, which raises vegetables for the Sitka Local Foods Network to sell at the Sitka Farmers Market.

For more information, please contact Scott McAdams at 966-1405 or lead gardener Dave Neutzel at 738-8732.

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• City offers free topsoil for Sitka gardeners

A mound of topsoil at Blatchley Community Gardens

A mound of topsoil at Blatchley Community Gardens

According to Thursday’s issue of the Daily Sitka Sentinel, the city is offering limited amounts of free topsoil for use by community gardens.

A limit of one pick-up truck-sized load per household may be had at the north side of the community garden behind Blatchley Middle School.

Gardeners also are reminded that coffee grounds are still available. They’re located on the north end of the garden.

For more information, call Sitka Community School/RecycleSITKA at 747-8670.

Doug Osborne and his daughter, Darby, shovel topsoil into a wheelbarrow while building the WISEGUYS men's health group's garden plot in May 2008 at the Blatchley Community Gardens

Doug Osborne and his daughter, Darby, shovel topsoil into a wheelbarrow while building the WISEGUYS men's health group's garden plot in May 2008 at the Blatchley Community Gardens