Spring was a very good time . . .

 A very local plants and gardening Fair for Christmas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope to see you there . . .

 August 2021: Winter harvests and plantings in for spring

Our first winter crops included pumpkins, sweet potatoes, parsley, sage, dill, basil, Asian and European salad leaves, spinach and rocket, edible flowers and chillies. And a pineapple! 

Spring this year will be full of the same herbs plus mint, lemon balm, lemon grass, coriander and thyme, Kipfler potatoes, cherry and Roma tomatoes, french and string beans, snap and garden peas, two varieties of kale, several "spinach" varieties, broccoli, blueberries, pineapples, sugar cane, ladyfinger bananas, two varieties of carrots, French endive and whatever actually propagates from the endless boxes of Woolies seeds we've been given...

Oh, and a couple of hundred kgs of our own primo compost.  

Outline plan is for this summer to see us add more planting area, slightly extend the Lower Terrace and shift the shed back, at last get connected to mains water, add some more small fruit trees, focus on indigenous plants in partnership with a group of our local school students, explore some shade for people options, begin useful plant labelling, get going on our honey and native bee hives, populate our worm farm, and hoepfully achieve better paths/accesses.

No shortage of plans or projects . . .

July 2021: The official word on how the Community Garden rolls

 Read "How Our Garden Grows" and "Information for Members and Guests" here (click the images): 

July 2021:  Our perfect precocious pineapple ripe, ready and relished

But don't worry the lottery of life has passed you by. We've more than thirty more planted up and ready to do some fruit-bearing next summer . . .

 Welcome new additions

The Walter Taylor Ward Children's Fun Day at the 100 Acre Bar last Monday went off extremely well, and volunteers at the SLCG next door spent quite a lot of time answering visitors' questions, explaining how the Garden works at the moment (while we are still quite small in area), and showing off what we have been able to achieve already. 

A couple of new Members joined us as well, and locals Lillian and James arrived bearing gifts of quick-growing Asian salad vegetables. It wasn't long before they were planted up . . .

Meanwhile Andrew and Ian cobbled together something out of nothing (climbing support frames for our tomato and bean beds) with some left-over chicken wire, a few posts and some ingenuity . . .

 Last day for people to become Foundation Members

The close of business today, Wednesday, 30 June, marks the end of our discounted opening Foundation Membership offer of 5 years' membership of the SLCG for the price of 4. One of those loss-leader ideas I guess, but twelve people took a punt, which brought us a significantly larger lump of start up cash (which we have sunk into raised beds, seeds and garden equipment) than we would otherwise have had at our disposal. It also marks the last day before all our Membership classes (Single, Family and Foundation) go live from 1 July. The SLCG Inc. would like to thank everybody who has chipped in to support us by becoming a member. Our total is up to almost 60 people now, which is really encouraging. I hope we can now prove ourselves to be a good investment in growing, caring, learning and teaching, sharing and harvesting.