Summer solstice surprise!

 Look what we found on Sunday! we hadn't realised we had a cauli among the cabbages.  






We also planted out some peppers and made a cloche, then used the remainder of the bed to plant out the runner beans. We made a bunny proof screen with the salvaged plastic matting we found when we first started on the site. 

The first strawberries were consumed, very tasty they were too!

Here's a photo of the broad beans being planted in March

And here they are now!

Quite a transformation!

Hope to see you for the "Music in the Garden" event during Louth Music Festival Week. We shall be at the garden from 3pm on Sunday the 4th July, so come and join us to share in a musical celebration of the garden and all of the lovely produce that's growing there. Please bring food & drink to share, and we shall make something nutritious and (hopefully) delicious from any crop that's ready for harvest!

13th June A Shed Tea Party

It rained, the magic water butt overflowed, Noel wrestled with his sign of the century in the making, Anisha ( back from Mexico and wonderful to see) found the baby leeks and rescued them from the weeds, Janet filled many wheelbarrows to finish yet another deep bed and Eddie and Maggie put the world and the shed in order with conversation and a big tidy!
So finally a little bedraggled we celebrated in the dryness of the shed with tea and biscuits before James and Alison came to give support. Runner beans are ready to plant out and more seeds and plants to put in next week when the eco club join us to make another bed with the last of the wood. Plans are under way for a Music Festival Celebration in the evening of July 6th in the garden with our salad crops to share, more info on the way.

Overflowing water butts

After the deluge last night no need to water the garden today!

The broad beans are nearly over the top of the rabbit fence! they look magnificent don't they?











We filled the empty bed with top soil and performed some weeding around the onions and shallots. The potatoes are thriving and some of the lettuce are ready for harvest.

The peas are coming on nicely too.

For those of you who have received the latest Yellow Pages, check out page 9!
Eagle eyed Eddie spotted some familiar faces lurking at the bottom of the page!

Sunday May 30th

Thank you to Nick and Sarah we now have squash, sweet corn and courgettes! Nick will you let us know the varieties planted for our records? Eddie's hacked nettles were added as mulch, full of nitrogen for the worms to work on.
One more bed was nearly completed with cardboard as a base and a very creative method for keeping the rabbits away using salvaged materials from the grounds. Well it might shock them by its temporary nature if they try to jump over.
Janet thinned the lettuce and after tasting on the plot we all took bags home for ourselves and neighbours. Open as usual next week 2.00 to 4.00, see you there!

Mad dogs and English folk

It was really was too hot for manual work at the garden today but we didn't let that stop us!

Here is Noel making two new beds for even more lovely vegetables..not sure what just yet!

 Eddie harvesting nettlesMosaic in progress

We continue to be thoroughly impressed with our lovely broad bean crop and runner beans in the mini cloche are coming on nicely.

Hoping we can make some progress with more rabbit proof fencing soon, sadly we lost all of the sunflower plants and some herbs to our little bunny friends over the last few days.

We sampled some of the lettuce today which have filled out really well, looks like our temporary bunny proof wire is working on those beds at the very least!

Rhubarb feast

We planted a full bed of marrow fat peas 6" apart (well almost!) , some calendula, geraniums, herbs, sunflowers and more lovely lettuce (Thanks to Nick for providing yet more plants for the garden).

    It was a warm and sunny afternoon so we celebrated with Jude's lovely rhubarb dessert,(Thanks to Bob for the rhubarb) the first of hopefully many feasts we'll enjoy at the garden 

We had our picture taken for the East Lindsey Messenger that will accompany an article about Transition Town Louth in the next edition.

We plan to extend the garden with a few more plots next Sunday so please come and join us 2-4pm, perhaps

we'll have a bit more Rhubarb to cook! 

Sunday, May 9th

The garden looks better each week with the broad beans getting bigger, strawberries and fruit bushes flowering and the rhubarb ready to harvest. Next week it will be tasting time for the first crop of the season cooked in the garden!

Welcome to David and Sarah who were immediately busy with seeds they had brought, they planted two large pots of runner beans, one of radish and one of salad leaves all cunningly protected with plastic supported by scavenged flexy wood.

Also planted were beetroot seeds, rocket and two courgettes. Herbs were split and planted in the spiral centre piece. Jude decided to take the two pots of mint home to pot in larger containers and bring back next week.

Noel was technical expert for devising ways to secure the polythene over the courgettes. The last bed was filled with top soil which leaves decisions to be made on new beds, what to put in them and how big they should be!
It must be nearly time to put our three courgettes in a prepared bed and the squash and sweet corn, all donated by Nick and Sarah, plus more herbs and edible flowers.
Everyone welcome to come next week on Sunday from 2.00 -4.00pm.