Wikipedia says of the site of my inner city garden allotment “Tanera Park lies to the north and north-west of Central Park on the opposite side of Ohiro Road. The park has sports facilities, including soccer, cricket, and artificial surfaces as well as changing-rooms.”
It also has a dog exercise area beside land the Wellington City Council ( 1991) set aside for inner-city people to grow their own vegetables. The Tanera Community Gardens have some 33 plots and I’m the newest person to have acquired a spot!
Unfortunately I didn’t take photos of the overgrown area, but this is what it looked like after my daughter and her partner weeded and turned it over.
Coming from Christchurch, where I have lived and gardened most of my life, it was a surprise to have such heavy and wet soil - even though my inner city garden allotment is on a sunny slope - and here, in wetter and windier Wellington, I’m sure I will need to use a few different gardening techniques to those I know – it will be trial and error, and getting advice from my fellow allotment gardeners.
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Gardening with great views of Wellington Harbour
