Seattle P Patch

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the Community Garden at the Marvista Park in Normandy Park.  As long as I've known, this Community Garden has been there.  Around the Seattle area, there have always been quite a bit of community gardens... long before Michelle Obama made them popular.  It is something that I really love about Seattle.  THE GREENNESS of the people!

During our holidays, we spend a lot of time on Capitol Hill.  It's got a lot of great places to eat, a great second hand book shop to roam through and a lot of my friends that live in its hovels!

It's a great district to just walk around, enjoy the Seattle summer sun and take a sit in one of the official P Patches.

This particular P Patch is located on Summit Ave and E John St.  This P Patch really inspired me to get my act together on my own home garden in Hong Kong.  There was such a beautiful variety of vegetables and flowers. 

The artichokes, in particular, was something that I thought I might try.

I'm not someone who is that good with growing produce from the seed, but I have tried.  The only thing that survived from my green thumbing was my basil plants.  They petered off though…after the harsh winter we had last February.

I am thinking that I might check out Mong Kok's Flower Market to see what plants I might try growing from wee things.

If you seek inspiration on starting your own garden, here are some photos of the Summit Slope Park P Patch.

***A View of one of Capitol Hill's P Patches***

Community Garden

Seattle has a program called the P Patch Program.  There are 88 P Patches around the city of Seattle.  They are basically community gardens, where small scale produce and other plants can be grown.  To be able to farm on a little patch of the P Patches, you have to get onto the P Patch sign up list and also select your choice of location.  Then you wait to be contacted when an available plot opens us.

Some communities around the city have their own community gardens, not apart of the P Patch Program.  In Normandy Park, attached to Marvista Park, is a community garden.  The community garden here has a lottery type of selection opposed to the P Patch Program's waiting list.  

There is also a community garden in Burien called the B Patch, which I want to check out before I leave.  I just like to know what people are growing and maybe get some inspiration for my own little home garden!

***What's growing at the Marvista Community Garden***