Category Archives: The Flats

Community Gardens, Guerilla Gardening, Permaculture, Planter boxes, Propagation, Small Space Produce, Snow Peas, The Flats, Urban Gardening

The Re-homing of the Peas

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Moving house is never easy… its exceptionally difficult if you happen to be a 200Kg garden full of Snow Peas!

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Flower Beds, Guerilla Gardening, Ornamentals, Propagation, Seeds, Sunflowers, Sweet Peas, The Flats

The sunflower strip – now featuring Sweet Peas!

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Converting the ‘Sunflower Strip’ to a ‘Sweet Pea’ garden has been quite an underwhelming (success?)

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This particular garden strip battles a few issues: Continue reading The sunflower strip – now featuring Sweet Peas! →

Flower Beds, Guerilla Gardening, Ornamentals, Reardon Family Garden, Urban Gardening

Euphorbia (not to be confused with euphoria!)

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During the raid on the Reardon’s Garden, there was a plant in flower that really caught my attention. They had striking foliage but what really caught my attention were the flowers! Chris had 2 different types growing and the flowers were Green/ Green yellow!

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Our garden needs you: Kickstarter update

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Kick$tarter Update

Now, more than ever: OUR GARDEN NEEDS YOU!

Kick starter update

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760707255/mitchell-mews-meadows/posts/949835

(Apologies for ‘tagging’ this post with so many terms – just trying to capture as big an audience as possible. No shame when it comes to repairing  / creating productive gardens!)

Please donate if you can

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Propagation 101

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Its rare that i buy a plant or seeding now days… i has to be something that i want desperately and right away… otherwise i propagate!

Whether it is seeds or cuttings, there are a few things that you will need to get started: Continue reading Propagation 101 →

Community Gardens, Guerilla Gardening, Permaculture, Propagation, Reardon Family Garden, The Flats, Tips and Tricks, Urban Gardening

Potting up the Booty :-)

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I really wanted to use some of the Castings and Compost i acquired in yesterdays plunder in the propagation mix i was going to use to strikes the cuttings i plundered.

Amongst yesterdays booty was a bucket of propagating sand, so i was able to make a mixture that contained: Continue reading Potting up the Booty 🙂 →

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Reuse and Recycle: Toliet roll pots

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Sometimes i struggle to find enough little pots to use when i need to pot up seedlings or propagate cuttings.

Some people love ‘Jiffy Pots’ or ‘Pellets’ but i find that they don’t break down quick enough and are not tall enough to accommodate a good tap root system.

Ive read a few tips and heard from an elderly neighbour that using toilet rolls as transitional pots works really well. Continue reading Reuse and Recycle: Toliet roll pots →