Victory Garden Blitz

May 28, 2009

Photos by Jason Haas

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People working in the yard, laying out boards, and moving existing planting beds. Ellen from the Bay View Historical Society came to help out, among many others. ~photo Jason Haas Over Memorial Day weekend, people all over the Milwaukee area got together at multiple residential sites to build and plant gardens in the Victory Garden Initiative’s “blitz.”

Bay View resident and Compass contributor Jason Haas was among those who participated. Volunteers helped install five four-by-eight-foot planting beds in Haas’ 900-square-foot Pennsylvania Avenue yard. Haas intends to share his garden beds with other users. 

The five completed planting beds. Each measures four-by-eight-by-one feet. The four parallel ones are each 20 inches apart, and the fifth is about two feet away, allowing for gardener and wheelbarrow navigation. Hari Haas playing in garden soil. ~photo Jason Haas Hari Haas up to her chin in garden soil. ~photo Jason Haas

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3 Comments on "Victory Garden Blitz"

  1. Two stories in the Compass about gardens in Bay View « Haas414 on Fri, 29th May 2009 11:19 am 

    [...] which features a solar-powered automatic watering system. They also used some of my photos from the May 23 garden installation at our [...]

  2. Jason Haas on Fri, 29th May 2009 11:21 am 

    It must be noted that on the day after the five raised beds were built, Stacie took it upon herself to build another raised bed and a circular herb garden in the front yard. She kicks butt like that.

  3. In the News « The Victory Garden Initiative on Fri, 29th May 2009 7:12 pm 

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