The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
You will remember that we left the planters last week all ready to be preserved with some creosote (Stephen’s first job when they arrived). Then they would be ready for a good layer of rubble in the bottom of each. This very satisfactorily got rid of all the broken brick and stone lying around the …
Foreman Steve and worker Stephen arrived promptly on Friday morning and started clearing and sorting. As Steve said, he really couldn’t plan anything until he knew exactly what we had that we might be able to use and what he needed to get. So here they are clearing all the old broken bricks out of …
This is ‘Foreman’ Steve and Stephen, Foreman Steve and Urban Forest Tribe Paula’s son – making a very creditable fist of swinging that extremely heavy sledgehammer. Stephen is home schooled one day a week by his dad and for the next few weeks our ‘growing garden’ is going to be his classroom. Once that is …
A happy new year to all – and welcome to Phase 1 of the Growing Garden project…. (If you are new to the project, click back to our first post to see how we got here.) So – here we are, on a rather grey day just before Christmas – the full digging team! The …
The growing garden is a small allottment size piece of land beside my garden in Highgate. Once filled with beds and flowers, during the three years that I was working on the house it was abandoned to the builders – and then to the brambles. The brambles couldn’t believe their luck and made full use …
