Garden Picnic at KHCC

Picnic ran well with over 30 attending over the course of two hours - we had scarecrow making, house building, drawing our garden, voxpop interviews, marking on our green spaces on map (across KH), butternut tereme and flapjacks. I'll edit voxpop in a bit and add here - some interesting comments on the garden and what we should be doing.

For the time being, a few photos from our event:

Catch up and party!

Sorry been a bit lapse on the garden blog.  All going well, and get out there for strawberries!

18th July is party time.  12:00 to 2:00 will have picnic, teddy bears, scarecrows, space exploration and, and, and, a street march.  Hope you can make it!

Marjoram, Mermaids and Minibeasts

A belated posting.  Two garden clubs since photos from this one.  Very mixed weather this June and still no strawberries, but they're looking plumper!

More rhubarb

Who'd have thought rhubarb could be so much fun?  Also managed to weed out the strawberries and blueberries, which are flowering and looking OK, if a little late.

 

Rhubarb

Lovely rhubarb picked today - bit of weeding too.  More rhubarb there, but strawberries still not flowering.

Picnic time!

Strawberries my be late, but time for a picnic for six families on the first properly sunny, warm day of the year.  Preparation work in the garden - raised beds dug over, runner and broad beans planted, leaks transplanted and water pistols loaded.

 Garden club is back!  After a long winter, we've finally had a chance to plant those spuds.  Frosts still expected this weekend to holding back on the rest of the planting.

Potato days, and other fruity stories

We've been digging up potatoes, and picking apples over last few weeks:

Apples and beans, blueberries too

Garden club back, starting on Thursday lunchtimes, weather permitting.

Some photos from last thursday:

Picking apples

Field for the Olympics and strawberries

A very productive day at stay & play and garden club.  We made a whole range of olympic junk puppets, and also puppets took part in story time and songs after.  We made up the story with the children, which (of course) ended on the olympic message, mate, 'It's more important to compete than to win'.

Strawberries are just turning red and juicy, and with a little weeding, lots of other fruit ripening nicely all over the garden.  Gardening tots also made Bob the Biker, the infamous pirate, among other Olympic puppets, as yet unnamed.  More puppet making tomorrow!

Garden Olympics

Introducing Harlafreyajago, the olympic runner.  Second of 'Field for the Olympics' workshops in Kings Heath Garden - first one was at Evergreen.

Also first of raspberries eaten today, and a little garden weeding.