November 28, 2013

On Thursday November 28, 2013, the EcoHuertos Program held a garden creation workshop at the Republic of Paraguay School located in Santo Domingo.

Students from the EcoHuertos Induction workshop, held on November 12th attended the activity.

At this school, a roof vegetable garden was created using 4.20 m x 3.30 garden beds, in keeping with the measurements designated by the school.  For the construction of the garden, recycled wood was used to create a perimeter fence around the beds. Students helped build the perimeter fence, cleaned the dirt and debris and anything else not needed for the roof garden. They pruned trees and prepared the beds for planting. The edges around the boxes were secured by rocks collected at the school. In addition to the flowerbeds on the roof garden, other students got inspired and created a couple of neighboring flowerbeds to grow vegetables.

The following vegetables and fruits were planted: tomatoes, leeks, parsley, basil, beans, lettuce, spinach, melons, eggplant, pepper, garlic, celery, beets, carrots, radish, onions carrots and oregano.