Earth Day Clean Up A Great Success
The Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens and the Arlington Rotary sponsored a clean-up day in the Robbins Town Gardens between the Library and the Town Hall. We were lucky – with the weather and the turn-out of volunteer helpers. Several members of the Arlington Rotary, the Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens, the Arlington Garden Club, and other Arlington residents gathered to help “spruce up” the garden in preparation for the Spring and Summer seasons. Leftover leaves and sticks from the Winter were raked out from beneath the bushes and bagged for disposal in leaf bags donated by Shattuck Hardware. A lot of invasive plants were pulled up and some of the compacted soil in the garden beds was turned over and fertilized. The curves in the beds were more sharply defined, and…