The Container Garden!

One of the ways to put a bit of green into your life inside of a city is a container garden.  We had space, next to the Community Room, and we had containers provided by a man and a woman who provided them by Freecycle.com.  We had some seeds provided by another woman on Freecycle.

Next we needed dirt and the plants.  The planting season didn't work well with the schedule of the Homework Club, and the Breakfast Buddies Summer program started fairly late.  Perhaps in the future we will be able to start the seeds early enough with the Homework Club, but this year it proved problematic.

Ten chili peppers and six sweet peppers were donated, already blooming, and planted into the containers outside of the Community Room.  Seeds were also planted, and more will be tried throughout the Summer.

They will continue to be cared for by the Breakfast Buddies, but it will be interesting to see how their interest in the plants goes.  Concern has been voiced about the possibility of theft and vandalism.  We will have to wait and see.