The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
And there are our potatoes sitting in their egg boxes in which they have been ‘chitted’ for the last few weeks in my kitchen. Chitting is pre-sprouting your tubers in the warm before planting them which, theoretically at least, can give them a head start. We were extremely lucky with the weather yesterday, getting the …
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 are very excited as for the first time ever Tribe Roots for Resilience who we know as the Urban Forest Tribe – our partners in creating our Growing Garden – have been accepted into the Aviva Match Fund. This means that Aviva will ‘match’ every donation they receive up to £250. (Click here to …
We have had a very busy couple of weeks in the growing garden. It started with our digging team preparing our new vegetable bed, edging it with old bricks and digging in lots of manure. However, first they had to dig out those triffid-like courgettes (or whatever they were) which were taking over the space. …
How is that for a fine crop of beetroots and baby carrots? The last of them pulled this morning after we has tested them out last week. Also harvested this morning were radish leaves – but alas only tokens of radishes! This was our second radish sowing and I suspect we may have overwatered them …
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 …
