My Garden

The snow has gone at last, thank goodness, so work continues apace on the raised bed building in the new productive area. Once beds are drilled and screwed together, the fun bit of lining them up on the ground to fit the design begins - not always as straightforward as it sounds, especially on a site... Read more..

Very busy times in the garden now and the warm and dry weather has meant great progress in the new kitchen garden. Most of the soil preparation is complete, to the relief of all the gardeners involved (some were beginning to get overload - see picture), with the mushroom compost, manure, composted bark... Read more..

After three weeks of sowing a wide range of things at home in the raised beds, hardly anything had germinated – apart from two poor rows of radish! So I decided to delve deeper and see if there was a bigger problem than just the cold weather. And I’m glad I did. Two things became apparent. The soil had... Read more..

Children from Cherry Tree Primary School worked along side RHS Hyde Hall gardener Andrew Hellman, myself, parent volunteers and teachers to build 8 plastic raised beds that will form the basis of their new vegeteble garden. The children planned the garden back in the summer term and now their plans are... Read more..

Costessey High school is busy building a new growing area to support the new Environment and Land based diploma that will start in schools from September 2009. Back in the autumn I worked with Year 11 GSCE science students to design the new garden, measuring the plot and marking out the new beds. Pauilne... Read more..

Despite the torrential rain, I joined a team of parents, grand parents, the head teacher and her husband, who had volunteered to help build new raised beds in the school garden at Fairhaven Primary school. Broads Authority Countryside Rangers also came along with volunteers to carry out woodland management... Read more..