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Dig Day Sunday 12 April
Posted: April 15, 2015
We got lots done in the garden on the dig day last Sunday. Jean and Tom helped clearing out more of the fruit cage and adding compost to help the fruit trees grow.
We transplanted the loganberry tree outside the fruit cage where it can grow alongside the fencing. We also planted more kohlrabi plants in the border along with some lettuce.
We dug over the border next to our polytunnel, weeded and gave everything a good watering.
We also dug up rogue potatoes and put them in their proper bed, and moved two broad bean plants to a bed where overwintering broad bean plants are already growing.
We dug over a bed to give it a good weeding but ran out of time to plant the parsnips and turnips that are due to go in there! Hopefully we will get that done this week.
Now the weather is getting warmer there will be lots more to do – so everyone is welcome to join us at our next dig, this Sunday from 2-4pm.
Big Dig Day Saturday 21 March 2015
Posted: March 17, 2015
Get digging this Saturday as part of the Big Dig Day.
Grow food, make friends and learn how to garden.
Or just come along to see what we do.
Everyone is welcome, whatever commitment you can give.
Dig day, 22 February 2015
Posted: March 3, 2015
We made a good start on planting the seeds for this year's harvest at our last dig of February.
Until we were forced to abandon the dig due to rain we planted brussels sprouts, spinach, calabrese, kale, purple sprouting broccoli, cabbage and lettuce in pots and put them in the polytunnel. We will be watering them regularly and keeping a close eye on the seedlings until it is warm enough to plant them outside.
We also planted out some more broad beans into one of the beds. And we were pleased to see that our garlic has started to grow! Next time (Sunday 8 March) we'll be planting many more seeds, including tomatoes, in the polytunnel. We'll also be planting some parsnips out in the garden – hope you can join us.
Dig Day, 8 February
Posted: February 8, 2015
It was a beautiful nearly spring like day in the garden. The broad beans and spinach are looking good and the daffodils are coming up. We weeded the mandala bed.
Dig day, 25 January
Posted: February 2, 2015
We got quite a bit done on our second dig of the year – despite the fact that the cold kept most people safely indoors! With a small number of us, we managed to get a few of the beds well weeded and turned over the soil in preparation for planting things. We also harvested a little chard.
We "chitted" our potatoes, putting them into egg boxes and plastic containers, and they are now safely in the polytunnel to start sprouting. A couple of weeks in a warm flat had already got them on their way!
In the coming weeks we'll be planting more seeds to sprout in pots in the polytunnel so the pace will pick up a bit! Our next dig will be this Sunday, 8 February.
1st dig day of 2015
Posted: January 20, 2015
Sunday 11 January was the our 1st dig day of the year. The weather was cold and bright and we had a good turnout, with some of our regular gardeners and a couple of new faces too.
We cleared one of the beds, prepared it and planted garlic.
We planted a row of carrots in the same bed, although it might be a little early for them. The rest of the bed has onions in it – it's best not to grow garlic and onions next to each other so the carrots will go in between them.
We also cleared and weeded some of the other beds.
We dug up some radishes, but they were pretty small!
We also harvested parsnips, and found some oyster mushrooms growing out the side of the herb bed in the Trees for Cities garden next door.
Dig day, 14 December
Posted: December 14, 2014
We had a lovely day in the low winter sun, 'team weeding' and setting the world to rights. Next dig day will be in January.
Dig day Sunday 30 November
Posted: December 11, 2014
We had a small team of gardeners on our last dig day, including a small gardener!
We finished digging trenches around the outside of the beds to protect the wood over winter.
We cleared out the runner beans and the frame, and weeded the bed where they'd been. We also dug over some of the beds.
We planted some silverskin onions to over-winter and harvested parsnips and chard.
We also sorted out the seeds and made a list of what we need to buy.
Dig day, Sunday 16 November
Posted: November 26, 2014
Depsite a bit of rainy weather we had a good day in the garden. Around five volunteers came to help out. We added compost to our newest bed and dug small trenches around several beds in order to protect the wood over the winter.
While doing this we seemed to disturb a couple of frogs' homes. The frogs distracted a couple of gardeners for a little while…
Justin got to dance on the compost in the name of making it more compact and so decompose more quickly!
We planted more broad beans in one of our beds towards the front of the garden for overwintering.
We also harvested lettuce, chard, spinach and even some mushrooms growing wild in the garden – which Jean assured us were safe to eat and proved it by eating a couple during our dig.
Dig Day Sunday 2nd November 2014
Posted: November 9, 2014
Despite the threat of rain it turned into a beautiful autumn afternoon with a good turnout and some familar faces.
We put some more work into beefing up the compost heaps, especially with lots of leafy material. We also cleared out one of the compost heaps, adding nutrients to several of the beds, as well as giving the wooden structure of one of the compost sections a chance to dry out, which should keep it in good condition and minimise the chance that it becomes part of the compost itself.
It's a good time of year to take cuttings, so we took some from several plants, mainly the soft fruit, as well as some roses. We may use these for a plant sale next year to raise some funds for the garden.
We gave the fruit cages have had a good clear-out, with lots of weeding.
We also took some of the last broad bean pods to dry out some beans for next year – these are now drying in the shed, and should be ready to go into the soil in the spring.
The mustard is coming up slowly but surely – hopefully this will give us some good ground cover over the winter (suppressing weeds), will fix some nitrogen into the soil, as well as giving us a nice leaf crop when there's little else to be harvested in the garden.
In terms of harvest, we took a healthy crop of salad leaves as well as some chard (and one of two last raspberries).
Dig Day Sunday 26 October
We continued work on the new bed, digging in the grass that remained on the top.
We gathered more leaves to add to the compost heap, trampling them down to make the heap compact, and covered it with tarpaulin to keep it warm.
We dug up the marjoram that was growing in a couple of the vegetable beds and replanted it in between the apple trees.
While digging up the marjoram we found a few unexpected potatoes in the earth.
Our harvest this week as spinach, chard and lettuce.
Dig day time change: 1-3pm
Posted: October 24, 2014
From Sunday 26 October 2014 our dig days will be from 1-3pm.
We hope to see you there.
Dig Day 19 October 2014
Posted: October 22, 2014
We had an excellent turnout of volunteers in the garden last Sunday, including more new gardeners, which we're always happy to see.
All of the steering committee were there, and we discussed some ideas for what to do with the garden in the coming year.
We made a start on digging a new bed. This meant moving a young apple tree from near the garden gate to the back near the fence.
We raked up leaves from the park as well as the garden to add to the compost.
We harvested the last of the squashes and pumpkins and then pulled up the plants.
Our harvest this week also included green beans, rainbow chard, spinach, lettuce, radishes and parsnip.
Dig Day Sunday 5 October
Posted: October 7, 2014
Fantastic weather for our first dig day of October, and a good turn-out meant we got through a lot of jobs.
We paid some attention to the compost heap this week – mixing it and pressing it down. We gave it as good a water as we were able by filling watering cans and the wheelbarrow, as the hose doesn't quite reach it.
Since there were no fruit left on the tomatoes, we pulled up the rest of the plants, then spread compost over the beds. We'll leave it for a week or two before digging it in.
We also removed the green beans and covered that bed with compost too.
We made a good start on clearing out the rubbish area, getting rid of broken pots and other damaged materials we don't need. The garden is looking a lot neater.
We harvested some broccoli, spinach, chard, radishes and runner beans.
Sunday's dig
Posted: September 29, 2014
Sunday, 28 September 2014 We had a great day in the garden last Sunday. It was really good to see some new faces as people came to help out who had come to our Harvest Feast the previous week. We harvested all of the tomatoes available - including green ones for use in chutnies. We decided to leave the tomato plants in the ground for now to see if they produce any more fruit. Some still had flowers on them which the bees were feeding on. We harvested lots of runner beans, chard, spinach, borage and turnips - which were poking out of the ground! Jean, Mary and Joe dug over the bed that cabbages are in to help them grow, and replanted them in the bed. We also gave the cabbages a new netting support to keep out birds and animals. Prakash helped dig up the borage so we can give the beetroot, which is growing in the same bed, a bit more space. We dug over some other beds and added compost to them. We also planted some more lettuce, some onions and some broad beans, along with doing the usual watering and weeding.
Harvest Feast 2014
Posted: September 21, 2014
Our 4th annual Harvest Feast was a big success. Lots of new folks came and feasted, with many planning to come for a dig day in the coming weeks. Plenty of regulars as well, and the table was full of delicious community garden-grown veg. It is still a thrill to eat the veg in the spot where it was grown.
Sharon the beekeeper brought jars of honey from the garden bees. It tasted amazing – like roses and other flowers. We used it in a honey mustard salad dressing as well as on bread.
We feasted on potato gratin, salad with spinach, chard, apple, nasturtiums, mint and courgette, courgette and rice casserole, roasted squash, rosemary and cheese scones, chard tart, apple chutney, tomato chutney, runner beans, courgette salad, homemade bread, tomato bruschetta, and crabapple jelly tarts.
We raised £34 in donations which will cover seeds for next year, thanks very much for the generosity.
Mark planted some mustard, a green manure. It fixed nitrogen in the soil and keeps the weeds from taking over the bare soil.
We harvested courgettes, runner beans, and tomatoes to take home as they needed picking.
There are gluts this time of year, and you might be wondering how to use up the veg. Here are a few recipe ideas:
Spiced Pickled Runner Beans
Runner beans with bacon and hazelnuts
Courgette Rice Gratin
There's no dig day today because of the feast yesterday. See you next Sunday, 3-5pm
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Harvest Feast – Saturday 4-6pm! All welcome!!
Posted: September 17, 2014
Please come along to our feast in the garden, featuring dishes made from veg we grew this year. We'll be there from 3pm, doing final harvesting and cooking. Eating starts at 4pm.
Thanks very much to Trees for Cities who have offered their produce to the bounty.
It's free, but would welcome a small donation to go for seeds for next year.
We're part of Capital Growth's Edible Gardens Open Day – http://www.capitalgrowth.org/events/opengardens/
Sunday's dig
Sunday we harvested for the harvest feast, watered, and worked on next year's planting plan. At the feast, we'll have: potato gratin, runner beans, tomato bruschetta, lettuce tart, crabapple jelly tarts, roasted squash, and salad with dressing made using honey from our bees!
The planting plan is still being worked on, will have it ready in a week or two.
Dig day Sunday 31st August
Posted: September 3, 2014
It felt like summer again on Sunday – so much so that Sadie had to work in the shade so she didn't get sunburnt!
While she was weeding the beetroot and fruit cage, the rest of us sorted out the netting. We covered the newly sprouting turnip, cabbage and lettuce to stop it getting nibbled. After rebuilding the netting support for the broccoli we managed to cover it all. It seems to be doing better after we covered it in netting last week. We're going to leave the purple sprouting broccoli to over winter, in the hope that it will produce some stems next year.
We also tended to the tomatoes – again. Some small plants produce surprisingly large fruit, which droop onto the soil. These end up spoiling, so we harvested all the fruit that was on or near the soil, even if they were green, These tomatoes can either be left to ripen on a sunny windowsill (they will take a few weeks to ripen), fried green, or made into chutney. If anyone has a good recipe for green tomato chutney, please send us one.
We has another good harvest this week of tomatoes, runner beans, green beans, chard and spinach. There was no squash ready this week but plenty of flowers, so we'll have some later on in the year – maybe for Hallowe'en?
Dig Day Sunday 24 August
Posted: August 25, 2014
We got lots of work done in the garden on Sunday. Justin gave the worms a feed and got plenty of nutrient-rich matter from them to feed the plants with.
We weeded the beds and gave everything a good water. Nicola and Prakash helped construct more support for the runner beans which had started to outgrow their frame a little.
Maureen planted some more beetroot as its growth was a little one-sided – although the leaves are coming up very quickly after planting the seeds just a few weeks ago.
Gary helped strengthen the tomato canes, which keep getting a battering from the wind.
We had some new faces helping out along with regular gardeners and got a big harvest – including spinach, chard, tomatoes, French beans, runner beans, three squash and a little purple sprouting broccoli.
We also found a few rogue potatoes while weeding the parsnip bed.
Posted: August 19, 2014
Despite the earlier downpour, Sunday afternoon turned out to be a beautiful sunny day in the garden with a good turn-out of gardeners.
We dug over some of the empty space where the beans had been cleared and planted some turnips and Savoy-type cabbages. We also planted a row of radishes at the bottom of the squashes.
We thinned out the lettuces and beetroot to give the rest a chance to grow. We also checked the tomato plants and tied up any that were being weighed down by their fruit. All of the beds were weeded.
We had a great harvest of tomatoes, runner and green beans, squash, spinach and rainbow chard.
Sunday's dig
Posted: August 11, 2014
The sun shone (surprisingly) on a happy day in the garden. We weeded, as usual, staked and pruned tomatoes, planted lettuce seedlings, and cleared out beds with bolted chard and spinach. We harvested the first of the french beans, plus tomatoes, squash, runner beans, spinach, chard.
Last Sunday's dig
Posted: August 8, 2014
Despite there only being 3 gardeners last Sunday, we got through some good jobs and managed to harvest some veg as well.
We planted some beetroot in the mandala bed, in between the tomatoes and the spinach. We also planted some winter lettuce at the end of the bed with the squashes. The lettuces should grow over winter and be ready to harvest in March next year. It'll be great to be able to harvest something at a time of year when we're mostly just planting.
We made sure any sagging tomato plants were tied up and watered everything.
We tomatoes, spinach, a few small carrots, runner beans, a squash, potatoes and some purple sprouting broccoli. There were some ripe blackberries but we thought we should wait for them to get a bit bigger before harvesting them, though I did try one and they are delicious!
Yesterday's dig day
Posted: July 28, 2014
Had a lovely day at the garden. A few new faces and plenty of regulars. We weeded, watered, cleared the bolted greens (lettuce and chard), and planted pak choi and chard. The harvest was potatoes, tomatoes, chard, lettuce, squash, runner beans and radishes. Digging the potatoes was seriously hard work as the dry soil was like concrete – thanks to Prakash for his persistence. Sadie made harvest piles and we had to draw straws as there weren't enough squash to go around.
Save the date – Saturday 20 September is the tentative date for the Harvest Feast. It's Capital Growth's Edible Garden Open Day. Here's an image of last year's harvest feast:
Everything is really early this year because of the warm weather. The crab apples are at least a month early. We harvested some of those as well to make delicious jelly – recipe here.
Only 3 tomatoes…Dig Day Sunday 20 July
Posted: July 21, 2014
This week we welcomed a couple more new gardeners to the group, and were also paid a visit by two of the 'grow leaders' from Loughborough Farm, who complimented us on how good the garden was looking!
We found quite a few more volunteer tomatoes mixed in with the parsnips, but there was no space to move them to so we left them where they were and supported them with canes. Most of them already had fruit on them. We checked all the other tomatoes were properly supported and managed to harvest 3 that were ripe!
We also harvested lots of young carrots, some spinach and runner beans.
Everything looked in good order after all the clearing and planting that was done last week. We were just giving all the beds a really good water when there was a huge downpour!
Ruskin Garden salad – recipe by Paula
Posted: June 24, 2014
Our clever steering committee member Paula has written this recipe blogpost using last week's harvest. Yum!
Dig day 21 June
Posted: June 22, 2014
Despite the fairly late change to a Saturday dig, we had most of the regulars and several new faces. The weather was perfect. We cleared out the bolted spinach and chard, planted French beans and beetroot, put netting on the purple sprouting broccoli (decimated by pigeons), watered, weeded, and harvested lettuce, broad beans, peas, radishes, onions, gooseberries, raspberries.
Trees for Cities were launching their garden, which is looking great. They are running veg growing training during the week. We are going to explore ways to work together. First off they've offered to build sturdy supports for our tomatoes and beans (thanks!!)
We are very happy to welcome Sadie to the steering committee!
Sunday's dig day
Posted: June 19, 2014
The fruits of our labours are coming through now, literally! All the hard work preparing the soil, sowing the seeds, weeding, and watering has paid off and the beds are full of veg.
On Sunday we weeded and watered and harvested. The diggers agreed that I could take the harvest to the GLA judging visit for the Lambeth Food Flagship award. We had a huge pile of broad beans, potatoes, radishes, gooseberries, peas, raspberries, and lettuce. When Rosie Boycott, who's judging the award, came to the Lambeth Food Partnership table, she asked if she could eat our peas. Have a look at the photo!
Dig day 18 May 2014
Posted: May 22, 2014
Last Sunday saw even more new gardeners, as well as some familiar faces. Maybe it was the glorious sunny weather that attracted everyone.
We planted out the the larger tomato plants into the beds, using canes to support them.
We also found a few volunteer tomatoes (ie plants that have grown on their own rather than being planted) which we dug up and potted for people to take home and try their hand at growing themselves.
There were some seeds that needed to be planted before they become unviable, so we planted turnips, radishes and courgettes straight into the beds.
After we'd finished planting, we gave all the beds a really good water.
Some beer traps have been laid to try and try and stop slugs helping themselves to the veg, but we will probably need to use some slug pellets too.
We harvested spinach and lettuce from the demonstration bed, plus a little rhubarb from the fruit cage – just enough for a small crumble! There are always herbs for those who want them too — we have a healthy supply of thyme, oregano, sage and mint.
Dig day 11 May 2014
Posted: May 13, 2014
Lots of helping hands on Sunday made short work of the weeds. As well as weeding, we earthed up the potatoes and we planted chard seeds in the demonstration bed.
We didn't plant the tomatoes because it was so windy it could have damaged the stems – we'll plant them next week.
We had the first harvest of the year – a big pile of lettuce and a big pile of spinach. It was absolutely delicious. The spinach was a bit nibbled by slugs so Justin's going to try some beer traps.
The garden is looking great – well weeded and nearly all the beds are planted up. We should have a great harvest.
Dig day 28 April
Posted: April 28, 2014
We had a lovely, mostly sunny afternoon yesterday. We planted many of the seedlings that we started on 2nd February – purple sprouting broccoli, squash, peas, beans, and sunflowers. Really satisfying to nurture them from seed. We did quite a lot of weeding, and some watering. We used twigs pruned from the trees to create a climbing frame for the peas, and made a tripod from bamboo for the beans. The garden is looking great, and we should have a big harvest. Look for the sunflowers along the fence as you pass the garden.
We have a few extra PSB plants, get in touch if you're interested.
Dig 2nd March
Posted: March 2, 2014
We had a productive day in the garden. There are definitely signs of spring – the daffodils are beginning to come up. The overwintering broad beans and onions are looking good. And the seeds we planted four weeks ago are doing well in the polytunnel, thanks to our watering rota crew.
We weeded the fruit beds, much easier now that they're protected by the fruit cage rather than netting. We also weeded a bed in the mandala bed.
And we planted a lot! We put in peas and chard in the veg beds. And nasturtiums, echinacea and poppies in the beds next to the beehives. We put twigs over the peas, as pea shoots are like candy to birds.
The crows have defeated our venetian blind labelling system, so we've tried something else this week. We've cut small white plastic pipes into lengths and written on them. Fingers crossed that will do the trick!
Dig 16th Feb 2014
Posted: February 18, 2014
With nice weather today were were able to get on with the various tasks: digging compost into the beds, planting Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Broad Beans, weeding and turning the compost. The seedling pots in the polly tunnel looked saturated so we drained the trays – waterers might want to keep an eye on that. We're trying out a new system for marking the beds – marker pen on strips of old Venetian Blind (which, being longer than the markers we've used before, might be more resistant to crow-vandalism!) The garden's been tidied and is looking nice after recent building work work.
Dig 2nd February 2014
Posted: February 4, 2014
A good system allowed us to get lots of seeds planted on Sunday, including pumpkins, squash, sun flowers, tomatoes, spinach and chard. These are now in trays in the Polly tunnel where they'll germinate over the next few weeks, some ready to plant when we meet in mid March. New garden infrastructure is almost complete. Next dig in two weeks time we'll give the soil in the new raised beds some attention to make sure it's ready for planting. We'll also try to come up with a new system for marking the seeds planted – the crows have tended in the past to dig up our labels. Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Broad Beans can be planted out and the compost can be turned.
Dig day Sunday 2-4pm
Posted: January 31, 2014
Come along Sunday 2-4 to plant up pots with seeds – everything from tomatoes to squash. We'll raise the seedlings in the polytunnel. In 6-8 weeks we'll plant them out and sell the spares to raise money for next year's seeds and tools.
We'll need to set up a watering rota so please get in touch if you can spare 15 min a week.
Today's dig
Posted: January 19, 2014
We had a nice day in the garden, with low winter sun. There wasn't a huge amount to do as nothing can be planted in January. We dug up all the parsnips from the bed – a bit like a treasure hunt as there were loads that weren't visible. Our friendly robin stayed near to pounce on the exposed worms. And there are lots of worms in the soil, a sign of healthy soil. We each took home a big pile of parsnips, enough to make soup. The cold has prevented the weeds from growing, so we did the little weeding there was to do.
The overwintering broad beans, garlic and onions are looking good. The Trees for Cities work is well underway, with the compost beds being built. Still to go is the fruit cage and raised bed in the front.
Next dig day is 2 Feb, 2-4pm. We'll be planting up seeds in pots to raise in the greenhouse. Some to plant out in the beds and some to sell to raise money for seeds, tools, etc.
Dig day yesterday
Posted: November 25, 2013
We had a really productive day yesterday, planting up onions, garlic and broad beans. Getting the veg in the ground now means we'll get an earlier crop next spring. We also weeded, and all the beds are looking great.
The new fence around the bees looks amazing. It's from the planter boxes that were up at the South Bank.
Next dig day will be 8 December 1-3pm.
Dig 27th October 2013
Dig 6th October 2013
Posted: October 7, 2013
We had a fantastic day in the garden yesterday. The warm sunny weather brought out the diggers and we got loads done. We dug out the rest of the potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes, weeded nearly all the beds, and tidied up in preparation for the coming improvements in the garden. Trees for Cities has won a Pocket Parks grant which will be used to improve the area outside their offices and parts of the community garden. One of the most exciting improvements is a forest garden in the shady area in the front near the Denmark Hill end. Forest gardens are a permaculture concept and we're hoping to organise a workshop on their design and maintenance.
Dig 29th September 2013
Posted: October 1, 2013
Good work done this week. Seeing that blight was beginning to appear on the tomatoes we decided to pick what we could and prepare those beds – perhaps for winter planting. Some of the green tomatoes are in the shed for ripening. We'll make chutney with the rest. We dug out a barrow-load of nice-looking compost. There's plenty more ready for use. Also harvested this week: Crab Apples.
The Harvest Feast
Posted: September 23, 2013
We celebrated our fourth annual Harvest Feast on Saturday. It's still a thrill to eat what we've grown, and it seems to taste particularly delicious. The table was overflowing with tasty dishes – jerusalem artichoke soup, roasted jerusalem artichokes, apple pie, pesto, potato/rosemary bread, crabapple jelly tarts, beetroot/carrot salad, fried green tomatoes, spinach/tomato salad, roasted pumpkin, sautéed kale, green tomato chutney, and more. We had a steady stream of eaters with many people keen to come back and dig on another day. We celebrated with the staff and gardeners from Thrive; it was great to meet them as we're in the garden at different times. Thanks to Andrew for fab folk songs and sea shanties on the accordion, and to the Lewisham Concert Orchestra.
More pics here.
4 days to the Harvest Feast!
Posted: September 17, 2013
Final preparations are underway. Thrive have their dish list (pictured) and let us harvest kale (pictured) and pumpkin which we'll cook and bring on the day. Lots of other dishes including crab apple jelly tarts (made with the crab apples in the community garden), roasted jerusalem artichokes, carrot/beetroot salad, and spinach and tomato salad. The weather looks decent and the Lewisham Brass Band will be playing.
So come along!!! 2-5pm, free, all welcome. If you want to bring something to share, please try to keep it local. Hope to see you there!!!
Yesterday's dig day
Posted: September 9, 2013
Despite rain showers we had a very nice day at the garden yesterday. The weeds have been thriving in the rain, so we tackled them. The beds are looking really well tended. We harvested potatoes and tomatoes – the potatoes are absolutely delicious and taste nothing like supermarket ones.
The lettuce and radish seeds we planted last week have come up!
We've got carrots, tomatoes, beetroot, spinach, lettuce, potatoes, jerusalem artichokes, and courgettes to harvest for the harvest feast (Sat 21 Sept 2-5pm). We'll harvest the potatoes and jerusalem artichokes this coming Sunday so people can take them to prepare a dish for the feast at home. Do come along this Sunday 3-5pm if you fancy cooking something.
We need a camp stove! Please get in touch email@example.com if you have one we can borrow for the Harvest Feast.
Dig 1st September 2013
Posted: September 1, 2013
We had a lovely productive day in the garden. We cleared the front bed and planted lettuce, radish and turnip – something to harvest in the darker days of winter. We also planted lettuce in on of the raised planters. Neil defeated the brambles that were attacking the compost and did quite a lot of strimming. We did lots of other weeding and watering, and harvested tomatoes, potatoes, blackberries, and onions. The garden is looking well loved.
We also harvested crabapples to make jelly – here's a recipe. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7661/crab-apple-jelly. Delicious and easy.
The harvest feast is September 21, details to follow. We'll prepare veg harvested from the garden and have a shared meal. Hopefully Seb will come with his ukelele and Andrew will bring his percussion instruments.
Sunday 11th August
Posted: August 15, 2013
We had a lovely sunny afternoon at the garden. Lots of weeding and tidying was done by Daniel, Darren & Kate. Neil and Maureen picked an abundance of blackberries, some beetroot & we shared a few potatoes that were dug up. Everything was given a good lot of water.
The tomato plants are looking healthy with lots of tomatoes on them – looking forward to enjoying them soon!
On the bee front this week, the beekeepers (Seb and Neil) gave the hive some attention to help out the bees and they are looking pretty happy.
Harvest Feast – we will be holding our annual harvest feast on Saturday 21st September. There will be yummy food to enjoy (mostly grown in the garden) and it's a lovely time to enjoy being in the garden. More details to follow soon but make sure you have it in the diary!
Dig on Sunday 28th July
Posted: July 31, 2013
We had a super productive afternoon at the community garden with only a few of the predicted
rain showers interspersed with sun!
The demonstration beds were cleared & tidied, worm juice was given to the tomatoes, a few squash plants were planted out and we did a good amount of harvesting!Justin dug a load of potatoes up, Maureen dug some lovely coloured beetroot & a few onions and Kate pulled up all the garlic & has braided them together to hang & dry ready to bring back to the garden over the coming months.
Dig 14th July 2013
Posted: July 14, 2013
A lovely day for sitting around and enjoying the heat – consequently not much gardening done today. The beds have had a good water though. Some work has been done managing the bees, which have been extremely busy building comb in various directions over the last few weeks. The tomatoes are looking healthy, as are the potatoes and the Jerusalem Artichokes. Next week more work can be done on the front beds – still looking a bit in need of attention.
Fun in the sun
Posted: July 7, 2013
We had a lovely afternoon at the garden in the hot sun. We watered everything and harvested raspberries, black currants, gooseberries, rocket, radishes, and broad beans. We did quite a lot of weeding, and started work on trimming excess leaves from the tomatoes and staking them. Thanks very much to the person who donated the fantastic bamboo canes, they came in handy. Great to see new faces, old faces, and new-ish faces. A few of us were regularly checking the Wimbledon scores on our phone, and being cheered by the good news.
The garden is looking great. The onions and garlic are nearly ready to harvest. In the next few weeks we'll start to have lots of potatoes, then loads of tomatoes and salad, and a good crop of chard and celeriac and carrots. And jerusalem artichokes and squash. The beds have really benefited from the application of manure earlier in the year. We left the borage in because the bees were loving the flowers. It is great to have bees again, and how cool to get them via a swarm!
Sunday 30th June
Posted: July 6, 2013
We had a lovely sunny dig on Sunday 30th June. There were 4 of us and we netted the salad and fruit beds to protect the crops from birds. Some of the fruit beds were weeded as well as the demonstration bed. Lots of watering was done too.
We had a lovely harvest of broad beans, rhubarb onions and garlic.
Transplanting seedlings
Posted: June 21, 2013
Last Sunday there were 3 of us at the garden on a nice & warm afternoon. We gave the broad beans some attention, staking them, cutting the tops off & spraying them with ecofriendly cleaner to help remove the black fly that have arrived.
We then tackled the big job of transplanting the salad seedlings from one of the hospital beds where they were running out of space. They are now housed in 2 hospital beds as well as the new bed alongside the fence. Lots of rocket and lettuce seedlings with much more space to fully grow now. You can watch them grow as you pass by the garden over the next few weeks.
Don't forget there isn't a dig day this Sunday as we will be at the Ruskin Park Summer Fair on Saturday 1-5pm. Hope you can come by our stall. Dig days will continue again from next Sunday.
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Released: Apr 01st, 1998
Running Time: 80
Director: Thomas Paine
Company: Adam & Eve Pictures
Peter North, John Decker, Asia Carrera, Mia Ciccero, Michael J. Cox, Alexandra Silk, Ericka (I)
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This was very much as we expected. A decent sized room but basic. There was however air-conditioning which was a bonus as Melbourne was very hot when we were there (early Nov). The hotel was in a great location, handy for sights, restaurants, public transport etc. Also the staff were very helpful and friendly.
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This budget hotel is right in the heart of the city, a three minute walk from Flinders Street Station; there are trams and a variety of eateries from pubs/cafes to specialty cupcake shops to a supermarket that stocks pre-packaged meals, right outside the door. Otherwise HF1 has all the basic amenities you would expect (no fridge), is neat and clean, and the staff were friendly and helpful. Great if you're on a budget and have a show to see in the city, or if you're visiting Melbourne and plan to not spend much time in your room.
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Situe dans un batiment ancien en centre ville. Chambre spacieuse avec douche et WC. Tres agreable. Dommage, le receptionniste pretendait nous faire payer 9 $ un petit dejeuner affiche 7...
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This is the story of the last of the dashkin. The people are all gone and in a world of innocent animals, the solitude, the sadness and bitterness have corrupted his view of life. What does the future hold for such a tragic creature? Will he wander the planet, forever alone until his death? Will he always be the wild King of Brackenwood?
It's a massive honour to be nominated for a 2nd Tank Award, thanks NG! Thank you for front page, all the great reviews and the incredible score for Daily Feature.
Thanks to Brackenwood fans and donors for all the support not only during the 4 weeks I spent making this, but also in the 2 years since I submitted Waterlollies.
Since then I've been working on the Brackenwood feature film outline with my good friend Ryan O'Loughlin. With no plans for a new web episode in the meantime it occurred to me that Brackenwood fans could be waiting years for the feature. I didn't want to abandon them altogether, so this new movie is my way of staying in touch with them and the NG audience.
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I love how you came up with bitey, he's so cool! And the world he lives in is so beautiful...I wish our world could be like that. Yet again it's only a silly dream no? But good luck with your next one and I'll be staying in tune with it... :3


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Born: Jun 09, 1946 AD
Currently alive, at 68 years of age.
1946 - Born on June 9th in Glasgow.
1968 - Kelman began to write at the age of twenty-two in London while working at the Barbican Centre.
1971 - Kelman joined a non-selective creative writing evening class directed by Philip Hobsbaum, who later introduced him to Alasdair Gray, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochead and Agnes Owens.
1983-1985 - "Not not while the giro" was published, followed in the next two years by the novels "The Bus Conductor Hines and A Chancer".
1987 - Greyhound for Breakfast won the Cheltenham Prize, and A Disaffection was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
1988 - He has also produced critical essays such as 'A Reading from Noam Chomsky and the Scottish Tradition in the Philosophy of Common Sense'.
1994 - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which he finally received for How late it was, how late.
1997 - Political writings such as his report on 'The Freedom for Freedom of Expression Event', published under the title Em Hene! (We Exist!) in the Kurdistan Report, the Amnesty International journal, Scottish Socialist Voice and the Scottish Trade Union Review.
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I'm as busy as ever making all sorts of things for the Paris Flea Market. I came up with another idea for a new product last night over dinner. I couldn't wait to get home to get started on it. I finished it up first thing this morning and it is something I'm really excited about. I'll keep it a secret until the big day. You know that will be hard for me.
Then, when I finished that project I started thinking about that big ol' dictionary that's been hitching a ride in my back seat since I bought it last week. As I soaked in the tub like a crocodile with nothing but my nose and eyes just slightly above water (I do some of my best thinking in just this way), a brilliant idea came to me. I think I'll keep it a secret too...I have to make sure it will work properly.
p.s. You're invited to add the Paris Flea Market badge (seen on the right column of this blog) to your own blog if you are going to be at the Paris Flea Market, either as a vendor or attendee.
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I'm a new reader and I am already very depressed that I can't go to the Paris Flea Market... Please relocate to Kansas so I can attend! Love your stuff. I have had a retail shop for 22 years and was feeling sort of burnt-out; your blog makes me feel re-energized about the whole thing! Thanks for the lift.
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and ooooooh you're so mean... I was so proud of not being very curious... you ruined me!
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I would love to attend, alas, I live in California and won't be in the neighborhood. Sounds like a fun time.
I also cannot wait to hear your secret ideas. have a great day.
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Griffin double-double leads Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are getting healthy and starting to roll at the right time, with hopes high that they're going to be playing deep into the postseason.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are so banged up that this year can't end soon enough.
Blake Griffin had 19 points and 13 rebounds and Caron Butler scored 17 points to lead the playoff-bound Clippers to a 95-82 victory over the Timberwolves on Thursday night.
Mo Williams had 14 points and five assists in his return for the Clippers, who entered the night 1 1/2 games behind the Lakers for the third seed in the West and just a 1/2 game ahead of Memphis for the fourth seed.
''It's great to get a win no matter what, especially at this time of year when we're fighting for spots,'' said Griffin, whose Clippers improved to 15-14 on the road and haven't finished with a winning road record since relocating to L.A. in 1984. ''It's a great win for us.''
Michael Beasley had 14 points and 10 rebounds and J.J. Barea had 10 points and 11 assists for the Timberwolves, who have lost eight straight games. They've lost 24 in a row in the month of April dating back to 2009.
The Wolves were playing without All-Star Kevin Love, who missed the game with a mild concussion, the latest in a long line of injuries that derailed a once promising season.
''It can't get any worse, man,'' Barea said with eight stitches in his lip courtesy of a collision late in the first half. ''It can't get any worse.''
The Clippers made 12 3-pointers and turned 17 Minnesota turnovers into 24 points. Butler hit 5 of 8 from deep and the Clippers outscored Minnesota 20-6 in the first nine minutes of the final period to blow the game open.
Williams was 6 for 11 in his first game since March 22. He missed 11 straight with a sprained big toe on his left foot, but he's returning just in time to get back into a groove before the playoffs.
There was a little panic in Lob City when the Clippers lost eight of 11 games in March and appeared to be sliding down the Western Conference ladder. But they appear to be picking up steam at just the right time, with 10 wins in their last 12 games as the playoffs approach.
''It felt great. The team was in a great rhythm so I just didn't want to mess up the rhythm the team was playing with,'' Williams said. ''I just wanted to step right in and do whatever I can to help the team.''
The loss officially eliminated the Wolves from playoff contention, but they've been out of the conversation for quite some time.
The Timberwolves took the first three games of the season series, including two at Staples Center, but it was an entirely different team that took the court on Thursday night. Ricky Rubio has been out since March 9 with torn ligaments in his left knee and Love missed the game with a concussion suffered in Denver on Wednesday.
The Wolves were also missing Luke Ridnour (ankle) and Wayne Ellington (back spasms), and it appeared like the Clippers took the short-handed Wolves a little too lightly in the early going.
The signs were there from the beginning, with Griffin missing a wide open, uncontested dunk and starting the game 2 for 7. The Wolves were shooting 53 percent to take a lead into halftime.
Griffin finally started taking advantage of Love's absence in the fourth, throwing down three dunks and scoring on a back-down in the post during the deciding 20-2 run.
Barea left in the final three minutes of the second quarter after being cut on the chin. He had 10 points and 10 assists in the first half, but picked up his fourth foul midway through the third quarter and was held to just one assist in the second half.
Anthony Randolph had 16 points, nine rebounds and three blocks and Nikola Pekovic scored 17 for the Wolves.
''Five down going into the fourth quarter and just could not make a shot,'' Wolves coach Rick Adelman said. ''Just ran out of gas.''
NOTES: The Clippers entered the night third in the NBA in fewest turnovers and committed just 11. ... Barea became just the fourth Wolves player in the last 15 years to register a point-assist double-double in the first half. ... Adelman and Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro each picked up a technical foul in the third quarter for bickering with the officials. ... After scoring 27 points against the Nuggets, Wolves rookie Derrick Williams had just four points on 1-for-7 shooting.
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What are you supposed to wear on top of 'going-out' dresses?
(31 Posts)I wear dresses a lot. I live in England. Therefore the dresses on their own tend to be chilly.
For work dresses, I wear a blazer or jacket. For weekend dresses, maybe a cardi. For the life of me I cannot work out what you're supposed to do with a cocktail dress.
I suspect a cardi is wrong? In the nineties I used to be wedded to the pashmina, but that's wrong too now, isn't it? The answer cannot simply be 'just get cold' can it?
Mmmmmmmm .......just get cold!
This is what I do (as I love a posh frock);
If I'm arriving by car right outside the venu......just wack up the heating and sprint inside.
If I'm going to have to be outside for any length of time (getting to and from) I wear warmest or weather appropriate coat which I ditch before I enter (most places have a cloakroom)I have a few black ones which wouldn't look bad if I bumped into a fellow guest en route.
If its a cold venu I wear a vest.....but tbh most places are warm inside.
I have a cropped 3/4 sleeve faux fur (not scabby looking!) jacket for when its really cold, otherwise brave it!
I do the taxi to venue. Coat in cloakroom and brave it with just the dress.
Usually warm enough inside anyway.
Brave it, I think at this time of year. Otherwise I also have a cream faux fur for deepest winter. I might wear a smart winter coat too.
have a white wool coat I often wear and stick in cloakroom. just got a fake fur which could also do trick.
I wear a black leather or a cream faux fur jacket
I wear a faux fur jacket.
A blazer can be a nice contrast to a feminine posh dress.
A really soft fitted denim shirt, a waterfall cardi (in thin fabric) or an over sized blazer.
I have a white wrap, very soft, open weave.
And a very naice wool cape.
I would LOVE a Brocade/ Jaquard print satin fabric coat (might buy one some day)
Oh God I'm so uncool. I wasn't even talking about^coats^. I mean, I'd obviously wear a coat on the way there - my winter one or my summer one depending on weather.
I sort of meant, you know, for when you're sitting by the door at a bar or somewhere. Or if you're at a wedding in the chilly church. You don't keep your coat on, so what do you do if no pashminas or cardis allowed?
Fucking hell. I already know that answer is going to be 'wear nipple guards and try and sit near a radiator'.
It's just as well I only go out about twice a decade, I'd die of freaking hypothermia. I am a very cold sort of person (that's what my exMIL told me, anyway. Though perhaps she wasn't referring to my body temperature).
Fur shrug?
I have slightly posh cardies for this, you know, a bit of kace, nice buttons
And a lot of pashminas - whats wrong with a pashmina with a pock frock?
On, re read OP, pashminas are 90s, yes I suppose I have been wearing them since uni days
Ok, those fur things linked to.... are they really what people wear? They look....weird. Like costumes for extras in an ITV period drama.
Will people not laugh at me?
Ummmm....that lilac boreo thing. Is that not just...a cardi?
I thought cardis weren't allowed?! <head explodes>
It's a 'posh' ccards
I think they would be warm but also look special. Only for a special night though!
A nice fur (fake of course)
I have a frock coat, made of a heavy satin material with brocade embroidery. It can be worn done up or, if it coordinates with the dress underneath, open. On phone so can't link but there are a few examples on eBay. Karen quite often do them.
What about something like this?
Or this: http://m.johnlewis.com/mt/www.johnlewis.com/alexon-jacquard-bolero-neutral/p439066?un_jtt_v_pdp=yes
Your DH's dinner jacket, artfully draped across your shoulders
I've got a thermal camisole which I wear underneath if it doesn't show, or I try and go for something with sleeves, or I've got a little blush coloured sequinned jacket from Zara
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We move ever closer to a catcher-framing metric that captures a player's true value. Last year, Baseball Prospectus introduced our Regressed Probabilistic Model (or "RPM") for catcher pitch-framing. RPM uses PITCHf/x data to increase the measured accuracy of the actual contributions made by catchers. But RPM also suffered from two limitations. First, because PITCHf/x data was not publicly available before 2008, RPM could only measure catcher framing from recent seasons. Second, it relied primarily on a piecemeal approach to identifying the individual contributions of pitchers, umpires and catchers. This year, we are pleased to announce an improvement that will address both limitations. We propose to move RPM from a "With or Without You" (WOWY) comparison method to a mixed model we call "CSAA" —"Called Strikes Above Average." This new model allows simultaneous consideration of pitcher, catcher, batter, umpire, PITCHf/x, and other data for each taken pitch over the course of a season, and by controlling for each of their respective contributions will predict how many called strikes above (or below) average each such participant was worth during a particular season. Although PITCHf/x data is preferable when available, the mixed model (in a revised, "Retro" form) will allow us to live without it when need be, permitting us to project regressed framing of catchers all the way back to 1988, when pitch counts were first officially tracked.[1] This same technique developed for Retrosheet can also be applied to recent minor-league data to provide an even deeper view into the progression and value of this skill. October 13, 2014 6:00 am
An experimental broadcast with a sabermetric slant got off to a slow start, but some 'in-game' adjustments gives us hope. The news of a saber-oriented broadcast option for Game One of the NLCS gave me some mixed feelings. While it is always promising when a major broadcaster embraces "advanced" metrics, it's a little disheartening for it to be a separate offering, rather than something integrated with the primary broadcast. Host Kevin Burkhardt was joined by a solid panel, including some of our friends. Padres manager Bud Black had the least broadcast experience of the group but offered the perspective of how advanced metrics are actually applied or understood by the men in the uniforms. Well known saber-scribe Rob Neyer was there, a man well-versed in communicating the subject matter at hand, along with two former big leaguers with a strong curiosity and appreciation of sabermetrics, Gabe Kapler and C.J. Nitkowski. Kapler, the former position player, has managing experience in pro ball. Nitkowski was a well traveled pitcher whose career included time in Japan. July 9, 2014 6:00 am
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After two years on the shelf with a shoulder injury, Michael Pineda appears to have recovered his old stuff. The Yankees got a major boost during the opening week when Michael Pineda took the mound for his first MLB game since 2011. When we last saw Pineda, he was wearing a Mariners uniform and facing a sudden dropoff in velocity, the first sign of the shoulder woes that have kept him out of the big leagues since his days in Seattle. April 3, 2014 6:00 am
New pitches and pitchers we've gotten glimpses of already this season. Spring: a season of renewal and rebirth. Also a time of new pitches and pitchers. A lack of bona fide new arms in the early going has slowed the usual flurry of new PITCHf/x data to ogle, but some established pitchers have made some notable changes. March 31, 2014 6:00 am
The best receiving catchers (and the best receiving teams) of the upcoming season. One of the benefits of our recently released catching defense metrics is they're essentially ready-to-project, thanks to the regression feature of the model (the "R" in RPM). RPM also gives us two ways to assign value to framing, one using context (the ball-strike count) and one using a flat value (recently adjusted* to ~.155 runs). This is a BP Premium article. To read it, sign up for Premium today! March 25, 2014 7:37 am
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Yes, Virginia
- Review Date: December 10, 2009
- Rated: NR
- Genre: Family and Kids
- Release Year: 2010
- Running Time: 30 minutes
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- Review Date: December 10, 2009
- Rated: NR
- Genre: Family and Kids
- Release Year: 2010
- Running Time: 30 minutes
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Parents need to know that Yes, Virginia is a family-friendly holiday tale with excellent messages about generosity, respect, and one person's power to inspire change. Virginia and Scraggly Santa epitomize the meaning of Christmas with their unselfish responses to strangers in need, and Virginia's idealistic excitement over the holiday is sure to get you in a festive mood. With no iffy content whatsoever, this is a great story for the entire family to enjoy together -- just know that Virginia's belief in Santa is ridiculed; although she's proven right in the end, some kids may start wondering themselves based on others' doubts.
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In YES, VIRGINIA, eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's (voiced by Beatrice Miller) fervent faith in Santa's existence is shaken when a playground bully named Charlotte (Julian Franco) tells her that it's "infantile" to believe in him. Determined to find out the truth, Virginia and her friend Ollie (Kieran Patrick Campbell) enlist the help of everyone from her quirky father (Neil Patrick Harris) to the local sidewalk Santa (Michael Buscemi) -- a.k.a. "Scraggly Santa. But when Virginia can't find a reliable answer, she turns to the most trustworthy information source she knows: The New York Sun newspaper. At first her plea for a final answer falls on deaf ears, but with a little encouragement from Scraggly Santa, the paper's grumpy editor (Alfred Molina) takes a fresh look at Virginia's pressing question.
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This delightful CGI special is based on the real-life story that inspired one of the most famous editorials in journalistic history -- "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Set in the late 1800s, the sweet, simple tale is unencumbered by modern holiday trappings like shopping, presents, and hustle and bustle.
Virginia's fear over Santa's potential nonexistence isn't that there won't be gifts for her on Christmas morning, but that his absence means he won't inspire the spirit of giving in others. The show's heartwarming messages about generosity, unselfishness, and respect will inspire viewers of all ages and remind them that small acts of kindness really can change the world.
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DVD release date: | October 26, 2010 |
Cast: | Beatrice Miller, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Neil Patrick Harris |
Director: | Pete Circuitt |
Studio: | New Video Group |
Genre: | Family and Kids |
Run time: | 30 minutes |
MPAA rating: | NR |
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