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Community Gardens, Guerilla Gardening, Permaculture, Propagation, The Flats, Worm Farm

The Raid

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Today my friends Dad donated more to gardening efforts than a kick starter project could ever hope to achieve.
Chris and Trish are moving out of their awesome home and today I was let loose on the garden…

Chris filled my car with buckets of nutrients,  compost and castings plus a foam box of about 10000 worms!

His garden was so awesome I was a bit overwhelmed. …

I took some cuttings of many different Hebes, and a white hibiscus (I think I messed this up- I took ‘softwood’ but think I should have taken  a ‘heel’ in the cutting.

Chris has amazing Helebores! So many patches that are flowering like crazy- beautiful greens and rust colored varieties.
I was so overwhelmed I forgot to dig up couple of clumps. … hopefully i might be able to go back in the he next few days and take some clumps. 
They move out this week so I may have missed my only opportunity 😦

Helebores or not, Chris’s contributions will give me enough cuttings and supplies to help create a new patch here at the flats and help make more people smile:-)

Thanks again Reardon Family

Pics tomorrow of worms and cuttings being planted out. ..

Brassicas, Carrots, Community Gardens, Foyer Food, Harvest, Permaculture, Planter boxes, Produce, The Flats, Time to eat!!

Tonight’s ‘Foyer Food’

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Baby carrots grown in foam boxes in the car park and last of the radishes from the east side.

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Plenty more carrots to come

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More radishes growing in between cabbage on the west side.  Everything grows really slowly here… I was still harvesting cabbage from here last year into the middle of summer.
(I know I shouldn’t have cabbage there again…. very bad planning in tetms of crop rotation!)

Community Gardens, Harvest, Produce, Radishes, Silverbeet / Chard, Small Space Produce, Urban Gardening

Radishes from the East

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The first offerings from the East side strip.
That’s why I love growing radish… you get to share the rewards nice and quickly 😉

Happy to say all the radishes have been taken!

One of the residents thanked me for the Silverbeet today, its nice to know that people appreciate the garden on any level.
I hope that by summer, some if the residents will be engaged enough to contribute to garden design (or even maintenance if im lucky hahaha)

Bellis, Flower Beds, Guerilla Gardening, Ornamentals, Propagation, Seeds, The East Side, The Flats

Bellis Perennis

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I have a real love of easy to grow flowers.
When I was really little,  I remember that every time my Grandmother came over she would dig daisies out of our lawn!

I thought it was a hoot to see my old Nan digging bits out of our lawn and sticking them in a plastic bag in her hand bag (she always had a plastic bag tucked inside her hand bag…. I actually think she probably always traveled with a pair of seceteurs too!). Continue reading Bellis Perennis →

Community Gardens, Guerilla Gardening, My Plot, Ornamentals, Small Space Produce, The East Side, The Flats, Urban Gardening

Shameless /kickstarter

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The new east side strip has been a success in many ways:

  • All the seeds have sprouted
  • The productive end has already given us Radishes and Rocket!
  • The Residents of Mitchell Mews now stop and chat!

With this success in mind, I’d really like to reclaim the garden near the fence on the eastern side. Continue reading Shameless /kickstarter →