Greener Gardening
Capture some carbon in your part of the parish
This is a project in which every one of us can make at least a small contribution towards making our parish more sustainable. Use the contact email on this site to sign up, join in. We already have a garden venue where interested people could meet.
We could do some or all of the following:
+ grow and share some of our food plants and products. It’s already happening - expand it. Perhaps a table left somewhere with spare plants? That’s already happening – expand it!
+ share vegetable growing skills and methods. Perhaps get a speaker to give us ideas?
+ use our purchasing power to buy sustainable garden products, reducing plastic and pesticides. Or share /recycle such products.
+ make use of garden waste in a community composter, suggested in the survey.
+ make the garden more wildlife friendly. Ponds, bug hotels, nest boxes etc. Could we involve the school in helping with some of these?
Capture some carbon by growing … well, anything, but keep it there by digging compost into your soil.
The Gardening Group of Wellington Transition Town have found some of the following activities popular:
vegetable seed swapping, sharing transport of heavy items such as compost or cardboard (for no-dig gardening), reusing horticultural fleece that farmers discard... and more.
I’m sure they would be glad to share experiences with a gardening group here.
No-mow May
Make life easier, for yourself and the insects
Sharing and Swapping
You've either got too much of them or not enough. Mostly. We can all think of candidates which are generally in the 'too much' category. But how nice to be able to share and swap seeds, seedlings and gluts of vegetables.
Anyone like some plug plants of Yellow Rattle which is going well in the wilder parts of my garden?
Christine Loudon