Productive Poly and another sunny day.

The poly tunnel is already heaving to the brim with productivity.

many a plant and vegetable have been planted. Below you can see just one of our crates of sunflowers that will soon be ready for the 2012 Sunflower Competition and our sweetpeas which will be soon ready to plant in the garden and sell on our plant stall.  

Our chitting potatoes.

Pat, the chief bird feeding volunteer, hanging our new bird feeders.



Our Giant Fennel, which is just going to keep on getting

bigger and bigger!

A lovely day to be digging.

Tomorrow we will be down at the allotment with a rotavator......

I will keep you posted on how it all goes! 

History of the Garden Project 1

The Growing Gardens Project started in 2001 on a disused part of the farm. These two photos show the site after it had been strimmed and cut back of nettles and brambles. In the photo below there used to be a huge pond.

Back in those days we used to have our ducks freely roaming around the farm, they frequently visited the garden. With so much digging going on they would come and grab the worms from the soil as soon as they popped up.  

Many adults, staff and children came to the space to help create the garden.

You can just about see the old manager Ben propped up beside his spade in this photo. I think he looks tired but pleased in this photo!



Derek the peacock used to also visit while hard everyone was at work.

The garden was officially opened after many months of hard work by June Whitfield (of abfab fame!).



Sunshine in London

After a dark evening all over London. The morning bought sunshine.