Useful tips

You can find out all sorts of useful information at the People's Garden. Just take Pat's humane anti pigeon devices... there's no half eaten cabbages here:

And then there's potatoes - Susannah writes 

"Trevor shows new volunteers the easy way to plant potatoes. Instead of digging a trench, he recommends using a bulb planter. Joanne Brannan at the Community Supported Agriculture project at Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm agrees with him. She plants up whole fields this way and says it is much less labour intensive."

 When it comes to spuds, you can't do much better than that!

African garden in the making

Having been quiet for a while on this blog, there is now an abundance of things to tell you - a bit like all those seeds germinating this time of year.

The African garden being constructed by the People's Garden and pupils from Chantry High School is well under way - its all best said with the photos...

 

Treading the paths

  

Building grey crowned crane shaped seat (Uganda's national emblem)

  

Sowing seeds

 

seed sowing - sunflowers, chillies and peppers

Alison Findlay of RHS lends her expertise

Keen planters

marking boundary with rubble donated by local building suppliers Collier and Catchpole

Planting feather grass round the turn seat

Shovelling manure to keyhole gardens

Staking out central compost well with hazel poles from Allotment Forestry Project, Sidegate Lane

Top off the plots

Spring cleaning

There were lots of spring cleaning jobs to do this week, and while we gave the grasses a hair brush and the borders a tidy, the first snow drops and crocus are busily coming up:

All about the People's Garden

Would you like to know more about The Peoples Community Garden? Here's Susannah Robirosa to tell you more:

The latest garden course and another volunteer story

The peoples garden regularly holds gardening courses - take a look at the latest one:

Volunteer Stories

The People's Garden has ventured into the world of youtube! you can already see how to take care of your secatures in a previous post and now you have a chance to see some of our volunteers stories:

A new year

A month into the new year and there is already a lot happening at the garden. 

A new porch roof has been build on the cabin:

And there are two new plots, one which will become an African garden, a project the People's Garden is undertaking with Chantry high school:

In the meantime we have been muck spreading on the other new plot:

While the volunteers muck spread and dug over a patch for onions to go in, Rick was in full flow with the new garden course - it was very cold Friday so they were huddling in the poly tunnel with a heater: