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Despite the fact that the day started out with 5 hours and 140kms of driving in a very crude vehicle, today was a most successful day. The edible garden for The Right to the City is officially underway.
Everything went according to plan, and I didn't finish too late. We started out by getting the castors onto pallets to make a base for the movable gardens. Trying to attach the castors to the crate was slightly more difficult, but we got them on and set up the garden bed according to plan.
We planted lettuce, chives, parsley and silverbeet, sprinkled some coffee grounds on the garden to keep the slugs and snails away, and mulched it with 100% recycled pallet mulch which is very cool.
I also hinged two half pallets together to form the beginnings of a vertical garden.

(Clockwise from the top left: the materials in the backyard; getting the castors on; the vertical garden; and the finished crate herb garden)