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Public Meeting & AGM 7th January 2015

December 9, 2014 by Garden Account

As a registered charity we must hold an Annual General Meeting within 15 months of registration. Time has flown by and we will be holding our first AGM on 7th January at 7.30PM at the Railway, Greyhound Lane .  Anyone can attend but you must be a member to vote.  Members will get a special invitation soon.  Join now if you aren’t a member.

The AGM will be a business meeting and followed at 8 pm by a public meeting to discuss our plans for 2015 – everyone welcome and and you don’t need to be a member to take part – come along and have your say! 

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Come and work with us

November 4, 2014 by Garden Account

Together with Growing Lambeth, and funding from the Esmee Fairbairn charitable trust we have an opportunity for a part time time Community Gardener – closing date 24th November. there is a similar opportunity at Rosendale Allotments.

Follow the link below for details.

Growing Lambeth Community Gardeners – SCCG and Rosendale Allotments 

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Winter Activities

October 30, 2014 by Garden Account

November / December

We will change our opening  hours to 11- 3 every other Sunday until February.  Dates until Christmas are – 2nd November, 16th November, 30th November and 14th December.

In addition there may be some additional events:

 

Coming Soon  – dates to be announced

Orchard Planting Day – once the frost arrive  we  can take  delivery of  our  new fruit tree saplings to join those planted in the spring in the Orchard (behind White Garden and  Community Garden).  We are expecting this to be late November
 Wassailing – around Christmas  / New Year –  a traditional festival to celebrate  cider and look forward to the spring.

 

Open Meeting and  AGM  – January

Formal business  for members( not a member  – join up)  and an open meeting to discuss our plans  for the new year.

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Apple Day 19th October

October 23, 2014 by Garden Account

We had a fantastic  day with plenty of  chopping, crushing and pressing apples  and  now  have  15 litres  of  juice on its way to being cider. Everyone who helped  will  get  a share of the cider when it’s ready.  Check back soon to hear about our  wassailing event  and see the pictures in our Gallery

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Forthcoming Actvities

September 28, 2014 by Garden Account

Here are our forthcoming events and activities at the garden: 

Every Sunday

Produce sales – range of crops- whatever’s ready, just picked.

 

5th October 12 – 4pm “Bug Hotels” –

  • Building structures to attract and house a range of invertebrates
  • Active learning session for volunteers, led by experts.
  • Tools and gloves provided but please wear strong shoes/ boots
  • Joint project with Network Rail, London Wildlife Trust

 

12th October 3 – 5pm – garden review meeting

Opportunity for volunteers and members to give their views on how well the year has gone, planning what we might do next year – practical and innovative ideas for crops and improvements wanted.

 

19th October 12 – 4pm Apple Day

We are looking to top last year where we had apples from 12 locations – and we’ll be making cider this year. Event to include:

  • Plans for new improved press.
  • Anyone who brings apples contributes to preparation or pressing will have a choice of taking juice home – or waiting to collect cider later in the year.
  • If you want juice bring your own clean (ideally sterilised) container.
  • Recipes and cooking demonstrations of autumn produce – jams, chutneys etc (dependent on produce available).
  • We will have a map of the borough showing where the apples come from

 

26th October 12- 4 pm

Volunteer garden sessions – seasonal tasks preparing for winter

 

November / December

Volunteer garden sessions every other Sunday (dates to follow)

11- 3 – early start to take account of shorter days

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Produce and activities this Sunday 24th August

August 20, 2014 by Garden Account

We sell our produce straight from the ground every Sunday to raise  funds – so if  you want really fresh vegetables and some unusual varieties pop in and see us 12 -4pm – and of course we’re always looking for volunteers and members!

August is the hight of the growing season so we will be harvesting plenty of crops  –

  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes  both with unusual varieties
  • Runner beans and purple French beans
  • Golden and red beetroot – golden beetroot is sweeter, softer texture and the leaves can be cooked like spinach.
  • Possibly courgettes and salad veg

Volunteer tasks will include harvesting, weeding, thinning out crops where needed. Don’t forget our compost workshop on 31st!

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Garden Diary 17th August

August 20, 2014 by Garden Account

After a late start, accommodating the Alice in the Rookery production team in our bothy, and some heavy rain we had another successful volunteer gardening day.

There were many beans –  runners and purple French beans – to harvest as well as potatoes and beetroot, for which there were willing buyers amongst our visitors.  We also thinned out our strawberry bed  – the plants like it so much they keep growing. We have to thin them out to encourage them to produce fruit.  3 weeks out in the summer whilst our paths were laid meant  we also had some very unruly tomato plants to tie up. As ever there was plenty of weeding to do too!

We had time to sow some extra crops  to fill in the  harvested vegetables – carrots for the autumn and spring onions, as well as some extra French beans to see us into the autumn. As a treat  the volunteers got to share the  figs from our own fig tree – very tasty they were too.

 

Next week will be more harvesting – Potatoes, more beetroot – red and golden, plenty of beans and we expect the first  of many tomatoes – all sorts of unusual tasty varieties.  there’ll always be weeding and if the sun keeps shining we’ll have to water too!

See you next Sunday?

 

 

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Welcome to our new website!

July 9, 2014 by charlotte

We are delighted to launch our new website! We’d love to know what you think… If you have any comments or suggestions then don’t hesitate to let us know. Over the coming months we will be using this blog to keep all of followers up-to-date about what’s going on in the garden and our plans for the future so watch this space!

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