We had a stall selling books and plants with Greening Petersfield at the Bank Holiday Festival today. After a slow start, it was busy in the afternoon once the sun got out.
Stall at Petersfield Bank Holiday Festival
Shed on its way…
This is to let you know that today four men dismantled the shed for us. The shed is now neatly stacked and ready for transportation to the Community Garden.
Many thanks to Tony and Abby Wilson (the donors) and huge thanks to Charles Bevan (the foreman and tool provider) and to Tom Bevan, Tim Rose and Benjamin Rose (the workmen). It was a seriously demanding job and they worked seriously hard. They also did a great clear-up with trips to the tip.
This however is only the beginning! The next tasks are (i) to get it to the site and (ii) to cut it down a bit and reconstruct it.
Thanks also to Amanda, Sue and Emily who came to see it and were encouraging!
Louise
Pix from ‘picnic on prairie’
Next event …..
the water is on!
The micro Priarie plants all looked alive and well on Sunday .Your planting idea is clever and looks good. it looks good to have the paths mown too.
The next bed in Veg Zone A – We were inspired to try laying cardboard first and then tipped compost on top which Adam trampled down with the hope that the couch will be slowed it looked a fine raised bed !
Plugs of beetroot, runner beans,and sweetcorn were planted into it , continued with seeds of
sugarsnap peas and Adam leeks .
Judith and I sowed seeds of spianch beet in the first no dig patch,
The sweet peas Emily gave us to sow along the fence are up!
After harvesting some radishes we left Adam sowing seeds in the salad patch.
It was a lovely afternoon!
First harvest!
Only radishes so far, but its a start!
Stall at ‘Spring Festival’
Just to say that our Greening Petersfield/Good Life Garden stall went well today, with lots of interest and enquiries. All the intro leaflets were given out, so some of these may translate into email enquiries.
Keith
Pictures from last week’s picnic
Here are some of the pictures I took last Sunday
Picnic at Veg Zone A!
Latest weather forecast is looking a bit more promising so fingers crossed. Emily, Adam and myself started marking out beds on Thursday evening so we have somewhere for people to dig if it is dry enough. We thought it would be good to get something planted on the day so if anyone has veg plants, seed potatoes (potatoes would be very good by the way as apparently they inhibit couch grass, maybe!) then do bring them along.
Recent garden pictures!
First leaves on quince
Take a break
Sparsholt shuffle 2
preparing herb bed 1
preparing herb bed 2
Mowing paths
planting hazel hedging
I’ve just tried the instructions for ‘adding a gallery’ as an experiment: you upload the files, then in a new post select ‘add media’ (button at top) & ‘add gallery’ Unfortunately the movie clip I took of Emily’s Sparsholt shuffle is in quicktime *.mov format, which wordpress doesn’t recognise: I’ve uploaded this vital instructional video to youtube:
Keith
Petersfield Community Garden 