Would you like to
- grow your own vegetables but you don’t have an allotment?
- spend time gardening with local people and share the produce?
- teach your children how to grow veg and support local wildlife?
If your answer is yes, do come and join us in the Lee Manor Society community garden!
We get together once or twice per month in the growing season, although you can have access to the garden anytime if you want to do some sowing, watering or harvesting. Gardening sessions are posted on the blackboard on the gate in Micheldever Road. No gardening experience necessary.
Our community garden was set up in 2010 at the Burnt Ash end of Micheldever Road. It is run by volunteers and contains several raised beds, which have produced amongst other things kidney beans, onions, garlic, potatoes, courgettes, blackberries and black tomatoes! We also have some flowers and bushes to encourage wildlife.
You can plant whatever you like and we are keen to experiment. All welcome, young and old.
For further details, please contact Dan Griffin at leemanorsociety@gmail.com
An update from Dan :
Meritxell and I have had a productive session in the garden today. We’ve harvested the onions (which look more like shallots!), the beans (not many!) and one courgette! There are about 50 black cherry tomatoes but they are not quite ripe.
We will leave four punnets of shallots in the shed – please help yourself if you want any. The same with the tomatoes. Just come in over the next few days and see if any look ripe enough for you to take.
We also swept and bagged (for mulch) lots of leaves. There will be more of this to do in the next autumn sessions. There should also be more beans and eventually lots of Jerusalem artichokes.
The next three sessions, all Sundays, 2.30-4.30, will be:
September 29th
October 20th
November 10th
We think we should plant out some autumn onions and garlic. The bean frame will also need disassembly.
