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The UAH Community Garden is off to a great start this season! The garden is hosting a new class taught by Dr. Cseke in the Biology Department, BYS 390. Students and faculty are registered in the garden plots for spring/summer planting AND we’ve started our seeds for our 2nd annual plant sale! Here are some pics below from our seed planting in the Shelby Center Grennhouse. Dr. Cseke is kind enough to let us use the space and prep for our sale. Looking forward to documenting their growth!
In the Spring of 2011 a handful of students gathered together to participate in creating an organic community vegetable garden on campus. The ground was tilled and compost laid to ensure plenty of nutrients in the soil before planting. Students from the biology department started tomato and pepper seedlings, experiments of the genetics department. Other students donated organic heirloom vegetable varieties no longer in modern agricultural production. This culmination of the genetically engineered seed varieties, less common heirlooms and plot of land waiting to be planted initiated the community garden.
We are currently in our first planting season with a variety of vegetables growing, including tomatoes, okra, corn, squash, beans, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, pepper varieties,sweet potatoes, basil, nasturtium, sunflowers, wildflowers and a few peas that haven’t gotten too hot yet.
UAH Community Garden 