Edible Mach

I've spent the week in Machynlleth in mid Wales and have enjoyed eating delicious purple kohl rabi, lettuce, peas, kale and fresh herbs from some of the Edible Mach plots outside the swimming pool and library!

There are some great outdoor growing projects here including Gerddi Bro Dyfi Gardens and GPs at the local health centre can even 'prescribe' volunteering at the garden to patients!

Help needed at new community garden!

Hurrah for residents at Balfe Court in Greenstead who are creating a new community garden with help from Colne Housing.

They would welcome any help and advice from gardening enthusiasts.

Contact Amanda on 01206 520585 or email her palangatura[at]gmail.com

Spring at the Big Garden

Clare's mixing our own potting compost using a recipe from I don't dig peat:

Ingredients
1 part sand
1 part leaf mould
1 part garden compost
1 part loam (soil from a garden bed)

What you do
Just sieve it all together!

We're experimenting  and comparing it to a bought organic peat free compost. Will let you know the outcome. 

Here's Matt using some coppiced hazel from the woods to make some woven fencing.

The uprights are cut from the red alder we've felled from the shelter belt. It was planted as a fast growing tree to get the belt established while slower growing trees developed.

New Year Plotting

compost making workshop at the TTW plot

Volunteers are invited to join in at the Transition Town Wivenhoe allotment this Sunday 5th January between 2pm and 4pm.

There'll be a variety of jobs on offer, bring a digging spade or fork if you have one.

07926 463568 hello@transitionwivenhoe.org.uk