The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
We were delighted to have two families join us yesterday for a tidy up, a bit of Christmas cheer and an update on our FUNDING DRIVE FOR THE URBAN FOREST TRIBE! You will remember that Paula and the Tribe got accepted into the AVIVA MATCHED FUND to raise money for their new Outdoor Learning and …
We were back in the Growing Garden last Monday ready to finish all our clearing and planting – and harvest the remaining apples on our Bramley apple tree. Here is our chief apple picker hard at work. And here is chief apple picker’s mum Jacqueline… ….who not only put in a good shift on planting …
We are positively weighed down – if deliciously – by ripe tomatoes coming from our tomato plants – not to mention the cooking apples from the tree in the main garden. And now the beans are in full flow! Meanwhile the squash (or are they courgettes?) are obviously on something pretty powerful as they are …
Here is the Growing Garden on the morning of our big opening on June 22nd, positively glowing in the early morning sun. Sun which was to be very good to us all day, popping in and out but always accompanied by a pleasant cooling breeze so it was never too hot either for our flowers …
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 …
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 …
