Free growing guides from Garden Organic

Free easy to follow growing guides from Garden Organic covering a variety of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers and fruit.

Each individual guide is set out with growing instructions, growing calendar and facts and figures to help improve your growing success.

The growing guides can be downloaded from the Garden Organic website here.

Dandelions on the wildlife friendly banking providing food for pollinators

Easter egg hunt at the Green Heart Den - Sunday 21 April

For more information please contact Ged on mob: 07922 222 670 or at email: ged@thewell2.co.uk

As spring approaches we are looking forward to another busy growing season

Exploring Barrows beautiful places

Funding for repairs to the poly tunnel confirmed

"After recent on site vandalism at Green Heart Den resulting in extensive poly tunnel damage we are pleased to report that funding has been secured to re-cover the poly tunnel and replace and secure both doors" Ged Pickersgill, project coordinator.

Current raised plant allocation

Tips and advice for growing vegetables

If you are looking for some inspiration or perhaps some advice on growing fruit and vegetables Gardeners World has produced tips and advice for growing fruit and vegetables on their website. Their pages can be viewed by following the links below.

Vegetable crops for beginners

Compact crops you can grow in small spaces

Low maintenance fruit and vegetables to grow

Taking a little time on the garden to start planning what to grow

Some of our service users have begun maintaining and preparing their planters for the growing season ahead

Turning over and aerating the soil and adding some new compost.

Raised planters are an excellent way of growing small plots of vegetables and flowers. They can provide good drainage and act as a deterrent to pest such as snails and slugs. They can also be of benefit to those with restricted movement and who may struggle to bend down. 

More information about gardening with raised beds can be found on the Royal Horticultural Society web page here.

Rusland Valley Horticulture Society - Potato day

Seed sowing guide from Gardeners World

Sowing plants from seeds is an easy and economical way of providing a variety of vegetables and flowers throughout the year but it can be a little difficult to know just what to sow and when.

If you would like to find out what you can sow and when Gardeners World has produced a very useful guide here.

Growing vegetables throughout the winter months

With the help of a little cover and some carefully selected varieties vegetables and herbs and be grow all year round with many being able to be sown or planted directly outdoors.

If you would like free information on which vegetables you can continue to grow throughout the autumn/ winter please visit :

Thompson and Morgan

Royal Horticultural Society

Garden Organic

A final harvest of tomatoes before preparing the planter for autumn

Cleaning out some of the bird nest boxes

You can find more information on maintaining bird nest boxes on the RSPB website here. 

Maintaining the area around my planters

Free wildlife spotter sheets to download from Wildlife Watch

The Wildlife Trusts Wildlife Watch has produced a large variety of free wildlife spotter sheets which can be easily downloaded from their website here.

Back on the wildlife friendly banking area to tidy the edging

A rewarding morning for Graham - maintaining the wildlife friendly area

Its that time of the year again....maintaining planters

Still producing fresh tomatoes

Preparing plant pots in the poly tunnel for new seedlings

Green Heart Den Open Day - 11am - 3pm Saturday 4th Aug 2018

MIND Ulverston - mums picnic

 


                                                             

Its been a busy time in the poly tunnel

Ox eye daisies flowering in the wildlife friendly areas