Simon Says

Simon gives us an update on progress in the garden at Trowbridge House; it turns out compost is something to get excited about!  Plus, look how clear the space is looking.  This is all terribly thrilling.



Gardening - BYO elbow grease



"We've built the two compost bins (albeit missing one pallet to make them both complete...we're in search of one at the moment), and we've been clearing everything else up.  I think it should be all looking quite organised by the end of today.  Potatoes possibly in, but I'm going to leave them in a box (which I've got to find somewhere) along with all the seeds so that people can plant as they please, as I'll be away for a few weeks from tomorrow.

Composting was pretty brilliant last week.  A woman from Bristol turned up with her partner - both of them very involved in permaculture - and they gave us loads of advice.  And on Saturday Chris, Adam and myself represented Student Community Allotments at the Transition Bath talk on How Can We Grow More Food Locally?.  We got a lot of contacts there, and the talk was generally very inspiring."

The garden looking so much clearer!

and the lovely compost bins

Great progress - Go Team!

Trowbridge House Pub Back Garden

Today we started work in the garden that the Trowbridge House Pub are kindly letting us use,  this is what it looked like when we got there.

To clarify that huge pit of brambles, thats is the garden. I was more than a little shocked. When my friend invited me along to a gardening project, I was thinking perhaps some digging, a little weeding, this was more than I bargained for. After a few reassuring words from Simon I began to see the potential of the place, he was talking about the veg we could be growing and the number of plots we could fit, I started to get excited. This was going to be brilliant, I couldn't start sheering fast enough. 

A good few hours of everyone cutting, moving rubbish and digging up roots later, the place looked like this:

It was hard work. I mean, I ache all over right now, but it was good fun, and seeing the difference  at the end of the day was amazing. 

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Today we started work on the Trowbridge House back garden, it was a full day of work and I am frankly shattered, but very happy with our progress. I'll give you a proper update about that once I've got hold of the pictures. The main thing I can tell you now is that I'm Letty, and I volunteered to run a blog so that we could show people what we are up to and keep a record of our progress for ourselves.   


In other news, Simon is going to be talking about the project live on Radio Bristol at eight tomorrow morning, so if people are awake an interested, you should certainly have a listen.