The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
Yes, things certainly moved on last week! Here are Steve and Stephen fixing our new pergola, created out the off cuts of wood left by the builders, and complete with another huge planter. We are planning to grow a vine up and over the pergola and I am not sure whether to put its feet …
The last time you saw this planter, Sue was pricking out tiny chard seedlings on the right and setting radish, rocket and lettuce seeds. Now look at it! And this picture was taken several days ago. All of those little plants are now significantly bigger – so significantly much bigger that on Monday I am …
We were delighted to have a visit ten days ago from Ecologist Michael all ready to help us plant out our first seeds in our new raised beds! The seeds had come from Garden Therapist Shey (see her at Keep Calm Garden ) – thank you Shey – and initially we used the beetroot and …
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 …
