Kind of sorry I missed this before. We have a "community garden" in ottawa. It's basically a plot that you sign up for and if you get it you can grow whatever you want there. We were successful in getting one this year. We live in a Condo so we no longer have our own. We use to have one on our property before. It's about 20 feet by 4 feet plot.
We grew eggplant, zuchinni, squash, green peppers, tomatoes, various herbs, some flowers, green beens and yellow beans. It was a marginal success.
The garden has to be organic and we needed to get familiar with the sun patterns and the fertilizer. The beans were our most successful. Followed by the tomatoes
With the Canadian winter coming we had to pull everything about a month ago. We have plans for next April.
Another problem was that homeless people come and pick the stuff. I feel that if you are that desperate for fresh food that you have to come and steal ours. Go ahead and help yourself. Just don't waste it or hurt the plants. We mostly do it for fun anyways.
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