1. We'd dig up the ivy and other ground cover in the bed closest to the entrance/elevator. (I can't remember the number and can't find the map. Can someone help me out?) Do people think that will get enough sun? With the sun being much higher in the sky during the summer, I am betting yes. We could move the ground cover and shrubs that are there to the curb strip along East 18th Street, which we should try to revive.
2. We'd probably need to put some sort of chicken wire around it to keep animals out.
3. We'd need to figure out a way to determining who could be a part of the veggie club. I recommend this: if you volunteer to move some of that ground cover and prepare the soil both on East 18th and in the garden plot, you get a few square feet to plant. (The size of the individual plots will be determined by the number of participants.) We could do this over two weekends and make allowances for anyone who really wanted to partake but couldn't make either date.
4. The exchange of ground cover for vegetables would be ideal from a cost perspective: we wouldn't need to buy much, or any, ground cover for East 18th ... and vegetable seeds are cheap. Plus, if the ivy is left where it is, I am worried it will burn from the excess sunlight.
Another idea: let's plant another tree on the East 18th Street curb strip ... perhaps move the bush that's there and put it there, to the south of the lamp post? Another tree would provide more shade for that section of the strip, preventing the new ground cover from burning.
What do you think? Chime in on comments below.
