September Update from the Community Garden
September Update from the Community Garden September is such a GREAT month! Possibly my favourite. We have been sowing autumn salads to go into the polytunnel, along with Sweet Williams and hardy annuals such as Cornflowers and Ammi which will spend the next few weeks...
August Update from the Community Garden
August Update from the Community Garden Today I felt the sun on my skin for the first time in weeks – wonderful. I don’t want to complain about the cool and rainy weather – it has been fabulous for young trees, shrubs, fruit bushes, courgettes, beans, raspberries,...
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June Update from the Community Garden 🥕Welcome to Summer, galloping towards the longest day!We’ve had a month of weeding, planting out and watering, with some serious growth! I feel like we flipped overnight from waiting for the ground to warm up and dry out a little,...
No Mow May
Sustainable Sarratt : No Mow May in Sarratt We are coordinating an effort to increase biodiversity in Sarratt, the more people who join in the better. It’s very easy to take part. The NoMowMay campaign is national and aims to reverse the loss of wild flower grasslands...
April Community garden update
April Update from the Community Garden Every year, I wish I could have two Aprils – I would willingly sacrifice November or December in exchange. After a fabulously wet March, April has brought longer days, faster growth, fecundity in every direction. Having sown a...
March Update from the Community Garden
March Update from the Community Garden If I were a better gardener, I could wax lyrical about the wonderful winter veg I’m picking – kale, leeks, winter mustards. In reality, there’s little to boast about, and nothing to pick in the SCG this month, bar some rhubarb,...
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February Update from the Community Garden Spring in the air, drawing us out from winter hibernation and into the outdoors. If you have managed to give your garden yearly coverings of compost, your soil should be completely workable in February, and hopefully giving...
January Community garden news
January Update from the Community Garden The first month of the year is a time of resolutions, of making plans and looking forward. As the rain batters the windows and the seasonal ponds are replenished, it can feel unrealistic, if not outright foolish to be drawing...
Community Garden Update
Just a short one this month! As I write, there are still dahlias and alstroemerias flowering, a cucumber plant with a ridiculous appendage, several tomato plants with ripe tomatoes on, and ripe figs on an outdoor tree – what is going on?? – it’s November. I suppose we...
Community Garden Update October 2022
Community Garden Update October 2022 October has seen the return of the Mission EmployAble interns, an end of season sale, and the beginnings of the long task of putting the garden to bed for the winter. This year there are 11 interns from Mission EmployAble, all of...