Gardening Club: Mar ‘22
Composting and Rose Gardens
Gardening Club this month met on a glorious morning, and saw a range of different activities taking place. The main focus of the session was composting and Cherry, one of our volunteer Community gardeners, guided the group on this.
However, other work needed to be done after an exciting delivery this week: we had a wonderful gift from Harkness Roses by way of 25 bush and climbing roses and so of course we had to get these lovely plants in the ground as soon as possible.
These were gifted as part of their launch of the new John Ystumllyn Rose. Harkness Roses introduced a community gardening scheme to better open the opportunities for young people from under-represented backgrounds. To celebrate this, they set aside 5000 roses for community gardens and sent out roses free of charge to lucky community gardening groups. Wymondley Community Garden are delighted to be among these.
In addition to composting and planting roses, our keen and hardworking volunteers also picked up some other bits of tidying and planting so it was a very productive morning.
Becky attended the session on Saturday and writes;
“We were blessed with beautiful, spring sunshine for the March Gardening Club. We welcomed some new volunteer gardeners from Stevenage; one as young as 3 years-old! We were grateful for the extra hands, as it was a morning of a lot of hard digging!
We always like to learn something new about horticulture at gardening club and this month was no exception. Thank you to Cherry for leading a session on composting to make full use of our composting system recently constructed by one of our volunteer gardeners. We learnt what can go in the compost pile and how to layer with alternating green and brown materials to ensure good quality compost for mulching all of our beds.
Thanks go to Harkness Roses for donating 25 rose plants, which were placed in their new home, in a new rose garden (hence all the digging!!). We envisage this being a more formal part of our community garden. We will be adding two beautiful rose arches next week for the climbing roses to create enticing entrances in to this accessible-for-all circular feature.
As if creating a large circular rose bed wasn’t enough digging, thanks to two hard working volunteer gardeners we also planted several Rowan trees and pruned the apple trees. Any hard graft like this deserves a good serving of cake. We finished with delicious banana and chocolate cupcakes. Yum yum!!
We are starting to get really excited about the fun and games planned for our community garden open day on Saturday 9th April, to celebrate Community Garden Week, but also showing off all of our hard work!”
For more information about our Open Day, please click here or contact us for more details. We hope to see you there!
Our gardening club sessions are held from 9am-12pm on the third Saturday of every month. Free to attend and all ages and abilities welcome.
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