Gardening

Meridian School cleans up

On Thursday morning, kindergartners through fifth graders from The Meridian School were out at Meridian Park and on nearby Bagley raking, weeding, sweeping, and picking up litter.   The efforts were a part of The Meridian School’s annual fall Community Service Day.  At the north end of the park, fourth graders worked with an arborist from Sustainable Wallingford to measure trees, while parents worked hard at an apple press, making homemade cider.  I gotta tell ya -- honestly --  it was the…

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Fruits of your labor

Barb Burrill of City Fruit is looking for some folks to serve as fruit tree stewards along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Wallingford. City Fruit is working on a project with the City of Seattle to train fruit tree stewards to care for fruit trees in Seattle parks: The planning group for this new fruit tree stewards program has selected five pilot parks, one of which is the Burke-Gilman Trail in Wallingford, between I-5 and Gas Works Park. Each park will have a team of…

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Sensory Garden

Your typical garden is designed for one, maybe two senses: flower gardens are beautiful to look at and, if you're lucky, add a bit of sweetness to the air. A vegetable garden may be focused entirely on taste, a lumpy bit of tumbling ugliness, rooted in practicality on its way to your table. How would you design a garden if you were thinking about your senses at once? Bright colors and subtle shadings, fierce and delicate smells, lavender and mint and…

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Wallingford Weekend

Labor Day Weekend is upon us, marking the end of outdoor festivals, movies, and block parties. It’s a time when we honor thy mighty Bumbershoot and prep the outdoor grill for that last barbecue. While many plan to get the heck out of Dodge for that last long weekend until…Thanksgiving (Ugh, really? Is the next one that far away?), we’ve got some suggestions for those who plan to stick around: Thursday, 9/2 (Still a weeknight, but worth mentioning): 8 PM –…

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Free Trees

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Quickie reminder: if you're interested in turning Wallingford into a densely forested landscape, navigable only by pack mule, or at least in adding a bit of greenery to your parking strip, the deadline for the free tree giveaway from the city is fast approaching: The deadline is approaching for applications to Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Tree Fund, a program that provides free trees for neighborhoods.  The Tree Fund is a simple way for residents to beautify their neighborhood and help the…

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Fruit Rites of Spring

Lily writes: It is that time of year again for our bizarre fruit tree fertility rites at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave).  We'll be standing around in and under trees, applying nylon hose to baby fruit to hoodwink the apple maggots and codling moths into believing that perhaps in fact though it seems like fruit, it is instead some alien thing which they have no interest in...so far, they are sort of tricked, which is some unfair biological advantage…

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Save Time – Hire an Immigrant

If you've ever been to Home Depot or Lowe's, you've seen them: crowds of men, mostly Latin American, standing around the lot entrance waving down cars, looking for work. If you're like us (and, if you live in Wallingford, you probably aren't that different), you have enough money to own or rent a place to live, put food on the table and still have some left over for what the economists like to call "discretionary activities". Further, you probably don't have…

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