Volunteers with rakes and work gloves popped up across several Boston neighborhoods today to help clean up winter-ravaged public places.
Robert Orthman photographed some of the volunteers sprucing up the little pocket park at Walter and South streets, across from the old Longfellow School, in Roslindale.
Also in Roslindale, Kristie Helms joined in the cleanup - and found what might be the oldest piece of trash: An old eight-track cartridge.
More neighborhoods have cleanups scheduled for next weekend and the weekend after that.
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Somerville too!
By David P.
Sat, 04/25/2015 - 6:15pm
I was on trash pickup duty in East Somerville. Why don't people just put their trash in the numerous public trashcans?
Oy, the cigarette butts
By Ron Newman
Sun, 04/26/2015 - 12:25am
I was also part of this morning's Somerville cleanup, in Davis Square. I didn't find a lot of beer cans, soda bottles, candy wrappers, or plastic bags, but cigarette butts were everywhere. This is supposed to be a city of healthy people!
One reason parks want to ban smoking
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 04/26/2015 - 12:34pm
It isn't the second hand smoke issue, as outdoor smoking doesn't usually cause problems. It is the cigarette butts everywhere issue. They do not degrade and cost a lot of money to clean up.
Is there a good resource for
By anon
Sat, 04/25/2015 - 8:51pm
Is there a good resource for finding out how to fix up a garden after an insane winter like this? I've removed the trash of course, but I'm at a loss for my poor flattened rosebush (it's a trooper, putting fresh buds out already, just squashed) or what to put down to help the soil or... whatever needs doing at this point.
I don't want to mulch because I like my "volunteers" (natives, weeds) as groundcover - bare soil is my nemesis, but everything in the garden looks as exhausted as I feel right now. Even my snowdrops and crocuses got completely flattened by the rains last week.
I'm from Texas, I don't know squat about this white stuff of y'all's.
I'd suggest giving the
By anon
Sun, 04/26/2015 - 10:11am
I'd suggest giving the library a call. We get a lot of people calling our reference department for advice finding gardening resources.
Thanks! You know, somehow in
By anon
Sun, 04/26/2015 - 3:11pm
Thanks! You know, somehow in this infotechnology age that never occurred to me.
I follow Epstein's Growing Wisdom and have googled around but most bloggers presuppose a lot of regional knowledge and experience that I just don't have.
My whole garden had to be ripped up last year because of drainage issues and after replanting, I was so looking forward to seeing it come into its own in the next couple years. It's hard not to feel defeated when you don't know what's salvageable or where to begin.