Victory Garden
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| Emily Catalano |
| 5/21/2009 |
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| Planting a garden can pose all kinds of challenges, especially for first-time gardeners. And this year, there are more first-time gardeners than ever before, including some of us here at NBC North Dakota News. The national gardening association expects that seven million new gardens will be planted in the United States this year. Here at the station, we decided to plant our own garden, and track the progress all season long. At the Bismarck Community Garden, each plot has nothing but potential. "There was a lot of nothingness," says Chuck Koch, one of the Victory Gardeners. "We had to take out all the rocks and big clumps of dirt, had to break them up and kind of soften it up." Clearing the soil was the first step of the KFYR-TV Victory Garden. This year, five of us at the station - Koch, Anne Kelly, Marie Arceo, Chris Gallegos, and me, Emily Catalano, decided to plant our own vegetable patch. It`s only been one week into planting season, and some of us have already learned a lot.... "Given that I don`t have any gardening experience, I had no idea what step one was," says Arceo. While there were some missteps along the way, the garden has been successfully planted, with over 20 different kinds of vegetables, flowers and herbs. "I`m looking forward to planting everything," Arceo says. "Again, it`s something that I`ve never done, so just to be able to start from scratch and see the fruits of our labor, I think will be good." And we`ll have a special Victory Garden section on our website, with videos and blogs, updating our progress throughout the season. "By the end of the summer, we are going to be gardening experts," says Koch. "Hopefully we don`t kill any of the plants, and hopefully we grow more than just weeds." And with a little luck, we`ll all have a successful North Dakota planting season. |
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