While many of our members are travelling this winter, those who are here have stepped up and the community garden seems to have just enough hands around. Welcome to new members Wayne and Nikki. Our outdoor storage shed has been constructed with a huge thank you to David Carolan assisted …
Summer season 2022/2023 at our community garden was good one .. plenty of rain courtesy of a long La Nina made for some great crop yields. The standout harvest was probably beans .. green beans, flat Italian beans and snake beans. These were harvested daily .. so crisp and flavoursome …
Happy harvesters
Beautiful weather for our Spring seedling sale.
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
