Gardening Group at Barracks Lane Community Garden

The gardening group met for the first time on Saturday – a couple of people turned up in pairs, but mostly we were new to each other. It was really encouraging to find such a committed and active group of people working together to  maintain and beautify the garden. Altogether  8 of us worked in remarkable March sunshine from 11am to 5pm.

We did mostly what we planned – a lot of weeding and cutting back in the raised beds, and transferring plants to better locations. It was lovely to see the difference it made at the end of the day  – suddenly the planting in the garden was looking cared for and thought about. We also sowed some seeds – a few herbs in the new herb bed, and some colourful annuals in one of the other raised beds (we’re hoping to raise funds this summer to replace these, so we are delaying any permanent planting until the autumn).

The date for next group is Saturday April 14th – do come along if you can!

NB:  Some volunteers want to carry out gardening tasks outside the monthly ‘Gardening Group’ Saturdays, so I’ve pinned a list of tasks that need to be done between now and the next group meeting – April 14th – to the cabin wall, and there’s also information in the file in the Gardening Group file in the Cabin. (If you do anything, please make a not on the pages provided)

Gardening group at Barracks Lane Community Garden

 

Group meets SATURDAY 24 MARCH, 11am to 5pm

Just a quick post about the gardening group at Barracks Lane on Saturday – everybody is welcome, no skills needed.

 

 

• We’ll be weeding and pruning the central raised bed, which was planted as an example of drought-resistant planting. It should be coming into its own this year!
• We’ll be weeding the other raised beds, and prepping them for new plantings.  We’ll spend a bit of time thinking about what herbs, fruits, and flowers we can grow over the summer.
• I’ll be looking for volunteers to help me complete the survey of the garden, and measure up for the new fencing around the pond area.