It’s planting time for all of our spring and summer favourites like tomatoes, beans, zucchini and capsicum!
The next working bee is Saturday 1st October at the usual time of 11:30am (after our meeting). There is plenty to be done so make sure you bring your work clothes, hat, drink and gardening gloves so that we can get a bumper crop planted!
See you there.
Sunday 1st May is National Permaculture Awareness Day and its also the start of International Composting Awareness Week!
I’m running a free workshop on Composting and Wormfarming starting at about 11am. We’ll be setting up the new Aerobin composter provided by the Council, and also a small worm farm.
Make sure you come along on Sunday 1sy May to find out all about recycling food scraps and making compost!
A handful of red compost worms
Approx 1 Januray 2011 – “The front right bed has been planted to green manure as has the pile of old soil at the back (with generous additions of B&B)… everything already in the garden is looking perky now in part due to the blood & bone David picked up…. there’s plenty of room around the beds still if anyone is keen. 
Also put in a whole bunch of Japanese parsley, climbing beans, cucumbers & various flowers in little patches around the beds. ”
from Ichsani on 5/1/2011
Thurs 30 Dec – Vanos family, Tanya – removed half soil from 2 remaining beds, replaced with mushroom compost, planted peas, herbs and flower seeds, then replaced mulch. We spent about 2.5 hours there. Next action: water seeds, watch for seedlings.
The wheelchair-bound Lord Mayor Cr Clover Moore officially launched the refurbished Reserve on a sunny Saturday 30 October. There was 300 free coffees and cakes served up and a colourful marching band to celebrate the occasion.
A few gardeners tended to the garden, spreading worm juice fertiliser while I taught about 40 kids and a bunch of parents how to set up and look after a worm farm.
Check out the photos by Russ Grayson on the Community Gardens Network website .
Location: Tripod Cafe
Time: To be confirmed (either 10am or 11am)
Bring take-away containers please!
Wondering What’s Next????? All are welcome to come along to the next meeting about garden planning!
10am Saturday 2 October @ Cafe Ella (upstairs) on Abercrombie Street
There’s lots of decisions to make and jobs to be shared around so get off the couch and lend a hand with your ideas and skills on the long weekend! See you there!
Construction of Charlie’s Garden was a convivial affair in Sydney’s mild Spring sunshine as Darlington locals descended upon the newly-renovated Charles Kernan Reserve to create a local food garden.
For more photos, visit here
The Garden Design Workshop was held at Carriageworks on 26 June 2010 with a group of the planning team. After a previous planning workshop and in-depth discussion, the group started plotting out a life-size draft of the design using a measuring tape, chalk and chairs!
Steve Batley, a Landscape Architect from Sydney Organic Gardens, was contracted by the City of Sydney to facilitate the workshop, finalise the design concept and manage the construction of the garden beds.
