One day when Eun Ah visited Urbana for the first time she found Michael and Rob staring frustratedly at the flooded annual beds and chicken area in the garden. Note the objects placed around so that the chickens could use them as islands where they could stay dry. This was a combo of sump pump water (from the house) and continuous rain that logged the soil through May and into June. Flooding mades it difficult to work on the garden.. Michael diverted the sump water to the sewer in the street after this. The swale in the garden can take some water but this was too much this year.
Year: 2008
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Garden Flooding
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Garden Concert
(1) Braden Eliot plays guitar at a concert in the garden.
(2) It was a cool and wet spring, here is an image of the swale full of cold water, with the willow trees still dormant. -
Gardening Day at La Casa, April 20, 2008
Gardening Day at La Casa, April 20, 2008.
(1) an invoice for some perennials: the 25 Cavendish Strawberries were planted by the willow, and mostly eaten by squirrels, the Candice and Interlaken seedless grapes were planted on the west side of the garden, and in late April Rob built a trellis for them to grow on, (Rob planted the 2 Elderberries elsewhere).
(2) Kyra’s map of her garden plans, circa February/March 2008.
(3) Kyra with some herb beds she build around the Aronia and Gooseberry on the east side. -
April 2008 Garden Images
Tim Richardson and Kyra Shaughnessy planting kale seedlings that were started indoors, April 2008.
Chickens introduced for the first time, donated by Danielle Chynoweth.
Tim and Jacob Barton adjust the topography following standing water in the annual beds. It was a very wet spring growing season.
Kyra using the sump-pump water to water plant seedlings. -
March 2008 Garden images
(1) Internal view of the garden, March 2008. Click for larger image.
(2) Panoramic view of the garden, March 2008. Click for larger image.
La Casa Grande Colectiva 