Come along to Seed Swap Sunday in Olden Community Garden, organised by Quill Street Allotments
– bring your quality surplus seeds (bought or saved – but labelled)
– bring envelopes and pens to take swapped seeds
– meet fellow gardeners and share local knowledge
Everyone welcome! Meet your friends and neighbours here! Tea and cakes available!
All are welcome to volunteer in the garden – any time 10am-4pm. We will provide materials for children to make bird feeders. Bird spotting sheets will be available. Or come for Open Garden and walk in the woodland. Listen for the woodpeckers. Coffee and cake/biscuits will be provided.
Volunteer gardening days have resumed. We are preparing the ground for our new butterfly garden. And the rose bushes are pruned and ready to be fed – a huge thank you to Freightliners Farm for bags of manure!
Join us next week, Tuesday 14th and Saturday 18th February, for half-term family activities. Come along any time between 10am-4pm. Everyone welcome!
After the winter break, our volunteer gardening days will start on Tuesday 7th February, and will be held every Tuesday, 10am-4pm. Saturday volunteer gardening will start on 18th February, also 10am-4pm. Come along at any time and join our gardeners, Maria and Caroline, who will guide you. No experience needed. A wide variety of tasks is available – opportunities to suit everyone. Coffee and cake provided!
Thank you to everyone who has helped to make 2022 such a successful year for Olden Community Garden!
Best wishes to our neighbours and local community groups and to our members and volunteers.
And a Happy New Year!
Could you help plant bulbs in our newly revamped rockery, or collect leaves to fill our composters? Or could you help plant raspberry bushes? Come and join Caroline our gardener at any time on Saturday 19th, between 10am and 4pm. No experience needed. All ages welcome. Coffee and cake provided. This is our last Saturday of the year before the winter break. Tuesday volunteering days will continue until 29th November.
A very successful potato harvest was held at half term in Olden Garden. Families and children came along to dig up the potatoes. Several varieties of potato came up, blue, yellow, red, purple and white – a rainbow of colours! And everyone had a bag of potatoes to take home.
Thank you to the volunteers from Acacia Avenue, Islington, who came along to aerate and top dress our lawn – helping to improve drainage and increase nutrient retention
Thank you to the BIG Alliance volunteers who renovated our steps – filling them with 30 bags of new shingle
We need volunteers. Could you help with gathering leaves to make leaf mould or with planting spring bulbs? Come and join Caroline our gardener at any time between 10am and 4pm. No experience needed. All ages welcome. Coffee and cake provided.
