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| The Clean & Green Team |
Today we had the hardworking
Clean & Green Team come to PG, led by
Paul, as well as a DPW packer truck to take away all the green waste and compost it.
They managed to completely remove a pile about 20' long, 10' wide and almost 5' high - tough work on a sunny and pretty warm morning!
Thank you
Julia, Marissa, May, Paul and the crew - and
Chris for moving all the debris up to that spot in the first place!
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| Before |
While the team worked to move the huge pile down to the front by the truck,
Matt and I investigated the homeless encampment in the back of the garden. There was nobody home, and it looks like all belongings were gone too, so we spent a couple hours dismantling the encampment, picking up all the trash, and cleaning the area.
We also cut back a lot of fennel and filled the hole in the far bottom fence with a large blue
Agave americana - better than barbed wire!
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| Spiky fence |
Now, I don't think this is a permanent solution - halfway through the job a homeless person came down and asked if there was a hole there to go through, and I said no... but I expect it will be back.
Agaves, yuccas and
opuntias do a fearsome job repelling humans, but only when they get established, which is hard to do when they get ripped out or clambered over.
Hope these ones make it - the
opuntias we planted many years ago are gamely trying to form the impenetrable hedge I know they can, but they're a quarter the size they should be, with many broken branches.
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| After! |
A whole lot of the 1 gallon pots of
Agaves and
Aloes growing on in that back area had been trashed by the homeless encampment, and I threw a number out. Matt planted a dozen pups in the "pup farm" along the off ramp street edge. They'll grow on and recover there, in relative safety, until we can transplant them to their final spots.
