New plans for Edible Public Space!
Chiara Tornaghi
Dear all,
Edible Public Space is looking to start a new growing season around Leeds!
1) This year we would like to build a mums/babies/toddlers friendly edible public garden in north-west Leeds (Kirkstall). We are possibly looking at creating an orchard and a greenhouse out of recycled materials. If you are interested, drop an email to chiara....@gmail.com. There will be a meeting around the end of February-beginning of March in the Kirkstall area.
2) Gardening at Buslingthorpe Walk edible public garden is still going on. Next gardening day at Buslingthorpe Walk* will be SATURDAY 25th of February, at 11am (for 1 hour or so). We will be clearing the garden, do some maintenance to the beds, and prepare the soil for the next growing season.
This year we are looking ahead for an early harvesting season, and therefore following tips from Charles Dowding's Winter vegetables book.
If you have a cool place -at 10-13 degrees - like a greenhouse, a cold frame, a shelterd place in your garden or yard, or a window sill in a not-very-warm room, it is time now to start planting your seeds.
As planting containers you can use egg containers, yogourt pots, or any plastic tray you might get from your shopping. And you can label them writing on plastic strips cut from any milk bottle.
Buy a bag of compost or use some good soil you might already have.
In a month or two you will be able to plant your seedlings out (and bring a couple of them to the public garden)!
These are some of the seeds you can plant now:
broad beans, peas, cabbage "red fuego", tomato "alicante" and "gardener's delight", aubergines, cucumbers "marketmore 76", leeks "musselburg" and "carentan", celery, garlic, shallots, bulbing onions, french beans, broccoli Calabrese "autumn green", mangetout, parsley, parsip, scorzonera, onion "yellow flat", sweet pepper, peppers "hot cayenne", artichokes "green globe" and "violetto di romagna", fennel "pronto F1", asparagus, pumpkin "marina di chioggia", spinach "picasso F1", lettuce (mixed)and endive.
Chiara
0783 8404642
*Don't forget: Bulsingthorpe walk is in Chapeltown, at the crossroad between Reginald Row, Button Hill and Mexborough Grove.