[Summit] Garden - proposed lot size

[Breslers]

10 x 10 is not so large as it sounds, when you get into the details-- if you
want to plant squash, pumpkin or the like and tomatoes and beans, even with
trellises they take up space-- and you have a border of rail road ties or
similar and only herbs or small things can really go around the edges or you
risk having tall stuff growing too close to the aisle where it can get
damaged and/or annoy other gardeners carting water and tools back an forth.

Mrs B

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com>wrote:

> True, 4800 square feet is not a city block; maybe I'm not properly
> estimating the footprint of the Sessions street gardens...which looks to be
> much smaller than any house lot I've seen.
>
> I think it's their mention of 10' x 10' plots that strikes me as
> exorbitant--are we all planting corn? Anyway I'll be interested to see the
> details of a formal proposal.
>
> Emlyn
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>wrote:
>
>>  Just for comparison sake, 4800 square feet is about the size of ONE
>> houselot in Summit, less than 1/8th of an acre.  Greg gerritt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> on 8/25/10 2:22 PM, Emlyn Addison at noisyblocks at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> The Sessions street example looks to be barely 100 x 40 feet; hardly
>> spelling out a displacement of "large members" of the Jewish Community
>> Center or of Brown University baseball. And that it resides just next to a
>> playground is an added benefit for parents.
>>
>> While I agree with you in principle--that parks should remain parks
>> (although, where exactly is this so narrowly defined?)--I think these Summit
>> emails too often suffer from hyperbole. We're not talking about mass
>> displacements of the population, stealing land, or setting the foundation
>> for social stratification via institutionalized horticulture. It's just a
>> garden, and hopefully a more modest one than the 4800 square-foot goliath
>> that is being proposed.
>>
>> And what has (again) been left out of this conversation is that the fees
>> collected for the allotments will help to pay for things. Not a bad trade in
>> this economy.
>>
>> Emlyn
>>
>>
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