During Autumn 2025 MGP Community Garden gardeners harvested and enjoyed many garden-grown pumpkins and passionfruit. More recently we’ve been harvesting rocket, sweet potato, yacon and a great crop of fresh turmeric.
Yacon is a tuberous root vegetable with a crisp, sweet, juicy texture that’s been compared to a combination of cucumber, watermelon and celery and generally eaten raw or in salads.
After a tough start with brassica seedlings being eaten before they could get a solid start, we’re now in the groove of watching out for our winter plantings like onions, lettuce, radishes, snow and snap peas, kohlrabi garlic, broccoli and cauliflower. Our bananas have been covered for months as we wait for them to ripen up but the exciting thing is that this has saved them from unwanted munchers.
Ratty visitors have been brought under some control by overhauling our compost bins. At this stage we’re still not taking contributions from the public.
Our Wednesday and Saturday morning garden meetings are happy to welcome new faces and helping hands at all levels of gardening ability. Usually we meet around 9.30am unless the weather is seriously uninviting.
