The life & death of a garden (pic heavy)

[sandbender]

A couple of years ago one of the local parks was convinced to parcel off four sections of one corner of their land and turn it into a Community Garden. As I often walk through there I got into the habit of resting my camera on the same fence post and taking a picture of one section of those gardens.


Sadly, the park has now decided to end this experiment, a shame really, apart from fresh fruit and veg the children seemed to enjoy watching the growing of potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, paprika etc.


A selection of photographs from the Millenáris Park Community Garden (Millenáris Közösségi Kertek), enjoy.


April 23rd 2013

May 14th 2013

May 23rd 2013

June 5th 2013

June 29th 2013

July 13th 2013

August 17th 2013

August 29th 2013

September 30th 2013

October 2nd 2013

October 13th 2013

December 24th 2013

January 29th 2014

February 4th 2014

March 2nd 2014

April 10th 2014

August 1st 2014

October 7th 2014

November 1st 2014

November 16th 2014

 

[British Red]

Looks like a great plot that was well tended. What a shame it is not being continued

 

[sandbender]

It is a shame, they were small plots but it was remarkable how productive they were.

 

[Coldfeet]

Interesting. You can see the marked growth between April and August this year. Shame they are not continuing with it; I wonder what their reasons are?

 

[david1]

I think you should send your pics to the council and your local press. Unless they have just moved the garden elsewhere ?

 

[mousey]

Sorry just couldn't resist...

 

[sgtoutback]

really nice long term view, thanks for sharing, love this sort of project, a pity it has come to an end

 

[Goatboy]

That's a shame that. I wonder if their fear was that they weren't being looked after (though the pictures show that's not the case.) Like David1 says, sending the pictures to the appropriate folk may help the case of keeping them. It was sad seeing allotments slowly getting turned over to grass through lack of use in the east of Scotland in the 80's and early 90's. Then everything went to fiscal poo and folks like Hugh Fairly-Unstable made it trendy again. Now thanks to campaigners like him we see a lot of good fruit and veg being grown again.
Interesting and cheers for posting up.

 

[sandbender]

I think you should send your pics to the council and your local press. Unless they have just moved the garden elsewhere ?

Thats a nice thought but things work differently here, once someone has decided that the garden has had its time, thats it. The folks behind the project do have other gardens though, but those are for folk local to them, the people who were growing stuff here were local to this area and didn't have a garden of their own.

There was a pensioner who didn't have a plot was putting down radishes and such along the edge just outside the fence, perhaps there will be more of that kind of thing.

Yesterday and today when out with the kids I noticed a few pensioners rummaging around, rescuing a few spuds etc. from whats left, folk of a certain age here have known real starvation and have seen every bare bit of ground in this city turned over to crops to remedy that, so to see the garden destroyed must really hurt.

Public Square, Budapest 1940s.

Thanks for the gif mousey.

Interesting. You can see the marked growth between April and August this year. Shame they are not continuing with it; I wonder what their reasons are?

I was away and couldn't get photos on those months, usually June was when everything really took off.

"...That's a shame that. I wonder if their fear was that they weren't being looked after...".

I had noticed that some of the plots appeared to have been abandoned this summer, however that may be because they'd been told that the plug had been pulled.