Seedling Sale 19 Nov 2022
Beautiful weather for our Spring seedling sale.
Gardening
Garden happenings as Summer 2022 starts
Spring was a busy time. Working around La Nina rain, some wild winds and marauding local brush turkeys MGP gardeners have bedded in lots of warm weather crops. Loads of beans have been planted .. round green beans, bush beans, Italian flat beans. The earliest plantings are yielding already, especially …
Working Bee 4 June 2022
Working Bee on 4 June 2022 was a great success with lots of jobs done including clearing of compost area, harvesting of turmeric and yacon, clearing of spent pumpkin vine, topping up soil, raised bed maintenance, moving into the new shed, secateur sharpening plus equipment inventory. Big big thanks to …
May 2022
Autumn is drawing into Winter now and still plenty of La Nina rain continues to fall. Interspersed with sunshine this can be a gardeners recipe for happiness .. we shall see. The star activity of May was a marathon day assembling our new garden shed in the rain on 12 …
March/April 2022
Plenty of rain continues into autumn as we transition to the cooler season crops. Over the past couple of months gardeners have enjoyed sharing some good harvests of butternut and Kent pumpkin. Green beans and baby eggplants lingered as we embarked on clearing beds, turning over soil and adding manure …
Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser for Garden Shed
Huge team effort today to cook and sell over 700 sausage sandwiches plus drinks .. raising good money towards our garden shed. We are thankful to all who supported us along the way. Grateful also for the lovely sausage sizzle weather. On the table we had a donation box for …
What’s been growing over Summer 2021-2022
Early tomatoes were best .. later on fruit fly set in Harvest on 22 December 2021 Fabulous figs on the way with special care from Tony. White radish .. January 2022 Nee’s pride and joy Passionfruit flowers show their apprciation for Bronwyn’s extra attention February 2022 Bush beans January 2022 …
Accessible Beds Being Used
Pictured trying out our accessible garden beds is Michael who visited on 9 Feb 2022. It was a sunny Wednesday to enjoy the pleasures of gardening including collecting radish seeds for next season and thinning out carrots while commenting on how lovely it was to breathe in the aroma of …
Gardens are creative spaces
We love the creative ways that have been found to enjoy our community garden. Back in December when the sunflowers were in their prime two young people and their grandmother visited to draw. How beautiful.