Our volunteers have started work on our project to build 13 new raised vegetable planters part funded with a grant from the National Garden Scheme Community Garden Grants. Landslip over the years has caused the vegetable beds to disintegrate. We are starting by removing old planks, sleepers and debris from the designated area. Alongside the project we are stabilising flower beds and terracing.
Landslip over many years is causing major disruption and damage. To help remedy the problem we are stabilising flower beds and terracing with wooden sleepers, replacing old disintegrating ones with new sleepers.
We bought 60 bags of manure from Freightliners Farm – probably helped by these cows!
We have received a grant from Islington Giving’s Make it Happen Fund, for our new project ‘Planting flowers in the shade’ – a perfect activity for volunteers during summer weather. Come and volunteer with us!
We welcomed over 140 visitors to our London Open Gardens open day in June. Visitors appreciated being given copies of our new map to guide them. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped on the day and provided tea and cake for our visitors to enjoy on our patio in the sun.
Thank you to the volunteers refurbishing our wooden table
Everyone welcome at our Have a Grow Day, an initiative of Social Farms and Gardens. At Olden Garden, we will offer gardening tasks including sowing next spring’s biennials, deadheading roses, weeding, pruning, tidying, watering.
Children can sow a sunflower seed in a pot to take home.
Tea and cake will be available.
Huge thank you to the volunteers from Macquarie who tidied up 50 metres of dead hedge, hammering in 70 wooden poles and rebuilding the hedge stacks. They also stripped and varnished wooden garden furniture.
Visit our hidden oasis of greenery in the city. Walk in our woodland, sit around our lawn surrounded by flower beds. Relax. Discover our meadow, orchard, butterfly garden and wildlife pond. Enjoy tea and cake in our garden house.
Weekend tickets are available for this year’s London Open Gardens. With your Weekend Ticket you can also visit our local Quill Street Allotments, and Arvon Road Allotments on the other side of the railway line from Olden Garden, as well as many other gardens not normally open to the public. Book your tickets in advance, to enter a world of secret and historic London gardens.
A huge thank you to all who came! Visitors from Islington and beyond enjoyed home-made cakes and tea on the lawn, and drinks from the bar, in beautiful sunshine. Music groups played throughout the afternoon. A special thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who made cakes and helped on the day, ensuring our music festival was a great success!
