Five days of urban gardening in Munich

After a successful week the participants were proud to present their work to the public:

The created showgarden can be visited at the Berufsschule für Gartenbau, Floristik und Vermessungstechnik, Standort Sadelerstraße (Schulgärtnerei).

Last day

On the last day, the participants created a small "urban gardening showroom", where all the projects created during the seminar are presented.

This included the preparation of the raised vegetable beds with the right filling (branches, green waste, raw compost an a compost substratum mix)...

 
...and arranging additional vegetable beds, based on plastic boxes as well as adding vegetable to the builded vegetable beds:

Old vegetable varieties

After the practical part, the seminar continued with a presentation about the advantages and the breeeding of old vegetable varieties based on an old radish, cultivated for years by Martin Döttling (vegetable specialist at the Berufschule für Gartenbau, Floristik und Vermessungstechnik).

The entertaining presentation included hints for an easy extraction of radish seeds...

...and ended with a training course about the right preparation of radish for consumption:

Construction time again

The second project was the building of some raised vegetable beds. Main focus were cheap materials and an easy assembling.
Therefore wooden composting systems were used in combination with pond foil:

The composting systems were reinforced by wooden batten on each corner:

For protection against rodents, such as root voles, a wire mesh is installed on the bottom of each raised vegetable bed:

After attaching the pond foil the system is ready to be filled up with soil:

Construction time

After a detailed explanation of the construction manuals on Tuesdas afternoon, the participants started their own urban gardening projects by building a vegetable column also known as salad tree:

Day 2 - the multiplicity of urban gardening systems...

On the second day of the urban gardening seminar, we visited the University of applied Science in Freising/Weihenstephan. After a really interesting presentation by the hortical scientist Katrin Kell, the participants had the opportunity to have a datailed look on a huge variety of urban gardening systems installed at the university show garden.

Some elevated vegetable beds:

recycling of different furniture for urban gardening purposes:

palette garden and an "eatable" table:
 

different vertical and soil-less systems:

For more information follow the link below:
http://www.hswt.de/weihenstephaner-gaerten/kleingarten.html

Urban Gardening Seminar - First Day

The seminar started on Monday 25. April as intended with a guided tour around the school area.

After a short lunch break and a warm welcome by the representative school leader, the seminar continued with an introduction to the aspects and basic principals of urban gardening.

After a short discussion the participants were introduced to the socio-economic importance of urban gardening in the world. This interesting presentation regarding the global perspective of urban gardening was given by Dr. Michael Fendt.

urban gardening groups/initiatives in Munich

Since 2011 a urban gardening network exists in Munich. You can find more information about the network on this homepage (unfortunatly only in german):

http://urbane-gaerten-muenchen.de/netzwerk-urbane-gaerten-muenchen/

We are also planning to visit one part of this urban gardening network on Thursday. It is a community garden placed in the middle of the town with a wild variety of urban gardening concepts.
The initiative also organizes different activities like training sessions or informative meetings regarding urban gardening... For more informations follow the link below!

http://o-pflanzt-is.de/

If you know any urban gardening initiatives around your town or country, please post some informations or a direct link in the comment section! Thanks a lot!

actual schedule/program