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Great day in the garden today and it rained 🎉🌧️ Began with our local group of nursery kids coming to explore the garden, sow seeds and enjoy a lot of watering!

Learner Plots are progressing, first harvests of radishes and rocket, and bigger plants going outside now and in the next few weeks.

The Little Growers kids Sunday gardening club are making great progress with their small plots, with the help of our brilliant new Sunday Community Gardener Patrick 👏🌱

Thanks also to new and returning volunteers in the communal garden today, lots of weeding and planting out. The fruit garden is looking great, we've got the most plums developing we've ever had. Peach leaf curl but lots of fruit coming, also apples, kiwi fruit, raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, grapes and cherries

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The Learner plots are starting to transform, lots

The Learner plots are starting to transform, lots of neat little rows of seedlings, amazing plant support structures, and early catch crops of radishes and rocket almost ready to harvest 🌱Learner Plotters busy today learning about pricking out, potting on and thinning out seedlings. Also discussing flowers and herbs as companion planting and edible flowers to add in amongst the veg to attract pollinators and to use in cooking or making drinks. We love borage, nasturtiums, calendula, violas and sunflowers 🌻Thanks to all our volunteers today, great work building a sweet pea teepee. #communitygardens #communitygardening #communitygardensofinstagram #growyourown #streathamcommoncommunitygarden #streatham #horticulture #foodgrowing #organicgrowing

Productive day in the sunshine. Our Learner Plotte

Productive day in the sunshine. Our Learner Plotters are experiencing the joy of germination 🎉🌱 Radishes, spinach, rocket have come up sown directly in the plots and lots of busy windowsills filled with fruiting crops and back up seedlings. Our asparagus is in its 2nd year, we're not harvesting til next year so it's root system is well established but it's grown about 20cm in one week📏 The fruit garden has transformed in the last 2 weeks with blossom on apples, quince, cherries, peaches, and tiny fruit forming on the currant bushes. Pollinators out today on the forget me nots. Come and visit or volunteer on Wednesdays and Sundays 11am til 3pm #communitygardens #communitygardening #streathamcommoncommunitygarden #Streatham #horticulture #newskills #foodgrowing #wellbeing #urbanfoodgrowing #urbangarden #londongardens #london

Lots of industrious activity today in the garden,

Lots of industrious activity today in the garden, planning, building and sowing 📝🔨🌱 Please note we're not open next Sunday so come and visit or volunteer on Wednesdays 11am til 3pm, then back to normal with Sundays on 24th April 👍🏽 #communitygardens #streathamcommoncommunitygarden #streatham #foodgrowing

Busy day at the garden today 🌱Our Little Grower

Busy day at the garden today 🌱Our Little Growers project has got off to a great start with seeds sown and plans forming. Thanks @higgidy for supporting this project 💚 Learner Plotters building structures and working on their plot designs. Lots of work from volunteers on the communal areas of the garden, building a brassica cage and preparing our No Dig bed. Thanks also to @rebeccamaysflowers for a great workshop teaching how to make sustainable beautiful floral displays, with all proceeds supporting the work of the garden. Thanks everyone 🙏
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Hive of activity at the garden today. Seed sowing

Hive of activity at the garden today. Seed sowing workshop for our new Learner Plotters. We have 20 people plus kids taking part this year, really exciting to see what they're all going to grow. Planning, measuring and working out timings and spacing today 🌱 We also have a new project this year to inspire plotters and visitors about what can be grown in small spaces thanks to Carmen, Ruth and Mark, 3 of last year's Plotters. Come and visit to see progress.. #communitygardens #communitygardening #Streatham #smallspacegardening #vegnotlawns #veggiegrowing

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End of Year Accounts 2021
Celebrating our 10th Anniversary
Creating a Pond
Creating a Woodland Edge
Funding for our Mulberry Glade

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