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WHAT’S ON THE SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS STALL?

The stall is stocked with loads of new seedlings now, including beans, tomatoes, chillies, French marigolds, basil and strawberries.

Seedlings

Sorrel ‘Belleville‘ – Easy to grow. Lemon-flavoured leaves great to add to salads or use in soups and sauces. Perennial – comes back every year.

Purple Sprouting Broccoli –  Produces repeated harvests of tasty purple or white florets for up to two months., in winter/early spring. Needs protection from garden wildlife.

Kale ‘Red Ursa’: Pretty, frilled variety. Particularly good for winter and spring harvests. Leaves dry well for later use.

Cornflower: Wildflower, great for pollinators.

Comfrey ‘Bocking 14’: Wonderful for pollinators. Deep rooted, pulls up minerals most other plants can’t reach. Leaves concentrate these nutrients and makes a great fertiliser for fruiting plants. Doesn’t self-seed, so non-invasive.

Basil: Needs warmth and sunshine. Best indoors or in a greenhouse.

Tomato ‘Tumbling Tom‘ – Pot-luck, lots of varieties donated from the Grow Community

Chilli ‘Cottonmill‘: Spicy! This variety was given to us by someone from the Bengali community. We don’t know the variety, so we call it ‘Cottonmill’. Easy to save seed.

French Marigold: Colourful and easy to grow great. A great companion plant for tomatoes.

Squashes coming soon!

Indoor Only

‘House’ Tomato‘: Specially bred to grow happily on a windowsill. Does not like being outside, even in a greenhouse!

Seed box

Still plenty of seeds in our seed box for you to #haveagrow with.

Our Stall

Our stall is located at 71 Leyland Avenue

Please walk or cycle if you can.

If you do need to come by car, please respect our neighbours when parking up and please turn off your engine. Thank you!

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Find a pop-up seedling stall near you, or host one yourself!

Grow Community – Sopwell’s annual pop-up seedling stalls will pop up over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, May 26-29.

Fruit and veggie seedlings will be available for you to pick up and #HaveAGrow with.

Help yourself to what you need and consider leaving some for others.

Use the map (click here) to find your nearest stall or why not host one yourself.

Simply pop any spare fruit or veggie plants in a box outside your house with a sign, and let the neighbours know!

Let’s #GetGrowing and #GrowTogether

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BERNERS DRIVE COMMUNITY GARDEN WORKING PARTY: THURS 11TH MAY. 10-11AM

We are at the garden as usual on Thursday 11th May.

Checking on our sowings, and preparing beds for the Beaver’s trip down here to plant their seedlings!  Also harvesting spinach and lettuce.

All welcome to this friendly group.

Dress appropriately for the weather, wear sensible shoes, and bring a water bottle.

Please bring gloves and hand tools along if you have them. These can be provided otherwise.

#growtogether

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May monthly session at Berners Drive Community Garden

Sat 13 May | 10.30am-12.30pm

All welcome!
General working party:
Join us sowing beans, and tidying around.
Gloves and tools provided or bring your own.

See our new bench being installed.


Sow sunflowers for our garden and for your home.
Decorate a pot too!

Dress appropriately for the weather and wear sensible footwear.

Let us know you’re coming on our Facebook event.

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Join our Tuesday Evening Working Parties

Now that the evenings are warmer and lighter, we’ve set up some evening working party dates so more people can get involved in community growing.

Put the dates in your diary! No need to book, just turn up. Come along to as many as you like.

We now have four growing sites to volunteer at. Three of which have evening working parties.

Please dress appropriately for the weather, wear sensible shoes and bring a drink.

If you have them, please also bring hand tools and gloves. We can provide them otherwise.

Look out for afternoon sessions at Martyr Close mini-meadow, coming soon.

Email us for more details.

Find our growing sites on our map.