Community Garden Wish List - How to find what you’ll need

If your group is just staring up and needs everything, or if you’re looking for something specific, consider published a “wish list” in your garden newsletter, local newspaper, or tell your local garden or service club.

Horticultural Items

· Topsoil, compost, potting soil

· Seeds, bulbs, bedding plants, cover crop seeds

· Perennials, shrubs, fruit bushes, trees, shade trees

· Manure, bone meal, blood meal, other natural fertilisers

· Soil testing kit

· Mulching materials such as shredded leaves, cocoa bean hulls, coconut straw, hay, shredded bark, wood chips, black plastic, corrugated cardboard

· Insecticidal soaps, hand held sprayers

Equiment and Supplies

· Hand tools: forks, spades, shovels, trowels, dibbles, rakes, hoes, cultivators, secateurs (pruning shears), loppers

· Child-sized hand tools

· Garden hose, soaker hose, drip irrigation systems and parts, spray nozzles, hose reels, water barrels, watering cans

· Rototiller, chipper-shredder, mower, edger, wheelbarrow and garden cart

· Plant labels, plot markers, signs, indelible markers

· Plastic, wood or metal edging

· Plastic and clay flower pots, all sizes, seedling trays, peat pots, wood planters

· Locks and chains, fluorescent lights, timers, fabric row covers, cloches, gloves, kneeling pads, tool caddies, tool aprons