Category: Gardening
The Gardening Project is an activity group based at Rosendale Allotments, SE21. Open to existing Rathbone service users for £5 per day (10am-3pm), or other people with learning disabilities at £35 per day, subject to assessment.
The group has a fantastic team spirit. Come along to learn about planting and nurturing vegetable crops, other plants and the soil, and enjoying the bountiful harvest each year.
Harvest Time
After a busy season of sowing, watering and weeding our crops the group have been able to share some delicious fresh fruit and veg.
29.6.19 – 34 degrees!
Too hot to work in the sun so after watering all the plants we made for the shade and had a BBQ.
Flaming June!
We’ve only had a couple of sunny Saturdays as the weather has been very wet. Everyone worked very hard and we dug and prepared beds and planted tomatoes and Jerusalem artichokes.
20.4.19 Spring Blossom
The gardeners were lucky to have beautiful sunny weather over the Easter bank holiday. All our fruit trees are in blossom, the cherry will need netting to keep the birds from taking all our crop.
There is plenty of work to do, knee-high grass and weeds everywhere, so much digging. The hot weather has made the soil very hard!
Christmas celebrations
The gardening group got together at Abbeville’s restaurant in Clapham for our annual Christmas lunch.
We have a polytunnel
One year later!
In August 2017 the gardening group lost its funding and we had to abandon our plot. We recently got some more money and were able to spend 4 weeks working together.
The plots were looking very neglected and there was plenty to do. The good news is that Rosendale Allotments donated a polytunnel so our group can grow plants from seed and have a place to shelter and work when it rains.
We tidied the shed, cleaned it out and put everything back. Then the grass was strimmed and the weeds dug up. We drowned the weeds in the water butt.
Manure was collected from the top of the allotment, where it’s delivered free, and we used it, together with our homemade compost, to top up the beds.
More stones were collected and the new strawberry bed was weeded and enlarged. There are more strawberry runners to plant up this year.
