Not much growing in the community garden. Is not a great comment, but it highlights perhaps peoples expectation of ‘fast food’ fresh veg, as in the supermarkets or ‘Instant Gardens' as seen on TV,We actually have plenty in the community garden, 3 fruit bushes, as well as gooseberries, perennial onions and more.Herbs that can be… Continue reading Not much growing in the community garden
Category: Food & sustainable production
Some fantastic news – Wellington Green Festival
Some fantastic news, and we’re proud to be part of this great upcoming event
How to plant Potatoes
This is the way we planted spuds down at Leegomery Community Garden last year, and we may do so again. Our crops were given to local residents.Our only difference is that we used a dibber rather than a fork. So we thought we’d share this video of local gardener and plot holder and host of… Continue reading How to plant Potatoes
Transition Together – will you be joining us
We’ve just started joining other groups, Transition, Community Groups, other groups from around the country on a 6 session journey.There’s plenty to join in so why not check out https://transitiontogether.org.uk/events/ Why not see if there’s an event you’d like to join.
We all want some figgy pudding
OK, Christmas isn’t for another 350 days at time of writing this. However we can forward to hopefully some sunshine in the summer. And yes you can successfully grow figs in the Midlands. If your short of space, there are even dwarf fig trees nowadays, suited to small gardens. Maybe we’ll have a fig tree… Continue reading We all want some figgy pudding