Pembroke Pocket Garden

Monday, 6 June 2011

Sat June 4, 2011 - Orange Rock Corps

05:55 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

On Saturday I felt very popular as 40 people, junior and senior, all came to visit me and help me grow!

Together we enjoyed a lot of sunshine, productive work, fresh mint refreshments and music!

Orange Rock Corps staff co-ordinated the activities that took place . There were a lot of activities, from painting over 200 cups as part of the one pot pledge campaign, making garden benches and compost bins.

Here they are making benches for the garden

Here volunteers are painting the cups which will be used as pots in which beans can be planted. The pots will be given out free, along with the seeds, to over 200 local households.

My team washed over 50 recycling boxes which will soon be filled with soil and seeds and new growth!

Here are some people putting together the pallets into a compost heap.

After four hours of hard work, I now look very different - it really was a rapid makeover!

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Monday, 23 May 2011

Mon May 23, 2011 - Surrey Docks Farm

13:36 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

Capital Growth Southwark

Today my community met with all the other food growing groups in Southwark.

A great day starts with a great cake

Can you guess what kind it is?

A fantastic tour of the farm

Michael feeding some new friends

The facilities are top notch

The farm is very family friendly, there were kids everywhere.

My community made many new friends over a delicious lunch.

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Sun May 22, 2011 - Windy Weekend

12:37 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

I thought Saturday was windy but, then came Sunday.

A gust got under my growhouse and whooosh!

I imagine for my little ones it was like a ride on Alton Towers' Oblivion

With a little bit of TLC everything was right as rain.

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Thursday, 19 May 2011

Wed May 18, 2011 - The 4 Rs

09:15 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

All of my community was quite busy today...

Rescuer

but, the real hero today was Dave

Here he is, too busy to even have a picture taken. Dave went to the garden centre this morning to pick up some emergency supplies. All very last minute, all very fabulous!

Rearranging

In order to aid my watering the community moved me around today.

Repotting

All of my little ones had outgrown their pots.

Rock

You may not know this about me but, I do enjoy a good boogie.

Orange Rock Corps Volunteering Day

Pembroke House

Sat 4^th June 2011

1-5pm

This session will involve between 50-75 volunteers working on the garden and inside the lower hall. In exchange for 4 hours voluntary work, each volunteer will get a ticket to a pop music gig at Wembley.

The work outside will involve building benches, tables, trellises for the wall, a couple of raised beds, archways, a compost heap and some ladder containers. Inside, around 20-30 volunteers will be decorating plant pots and packaging them up with soil and seeds, to give out to at least 100 households in the area, as part of the one pot pledge scheme.

If you would like to participate in this one-off event, please register with the website www.orangerockcorps.co.uk , and inform Kathleen that you have done so.

If you have registered, it is essential that you turn up so that you can claim your concert ticket.

Lunch & Refreshments Provided

Please let me know if you have any further questions regarding this event.

Kathleen

020 7703 3803

kathleen.murray@pembrokehouse. org.uk

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Thursday, 12 May 2011

Wed May 6, 2011 - Our First Crop

10:19 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

How's this for a wheelbarrow?

Here are a couple of very proud parents.

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Wed May 6, 2011 - The Blue Boxes

09:54 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

I love how my community makes use of the council's old and disused "Blue Recycling Boxes".

And so much care goes into making sure all the plants get along with each other.

Each week I grow bigger and bigger.

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Wednesday, 2 March 2011

New adventures at Pembroke Community Garden

08:20 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

On the last Wednesday of February, the community group met again to start to giving me some real shape.

First of all, the group got together for coffee, tea, biscuits and fruit, before embarking on a greenhouse building extravaganza.

There is a smaller and a bigger green house and both will help to maintain a more stable climate for all the seeds that have been bought and are waiting to be planted. This activity took place inside the community centre, because here, outside with me, it was pretty freezing!

Everyone participated: David, Alice, Michael, Kathleen and Elizabeth and the frames and plastic sheeting were very soon mounted and looked brilliant. The small green house was moved outside when it was complete, but the big one was more difficult to move...

... and needed to be finished outdoors (I enjoyed the company).

Thanks to David, who thought about the heavy wind we sometimes get in Walworth, he decide to reinforce the structure of the largest green house so I could feel more secure with my plants under control. Now I have two spaces to help the smaller plants to grow.

Also, Michael brought more than forty recycling containers - thanks to him and to the council, I will be germinating in no time!

Another activity that was performed was to clean half of the containers to have them ready so they can finally grow some plants.

So then, they divide the work and while David and Alice were working on the structure of the large green house...

... Kathleen, Elizabeth, Michael and Paco (who was in charge of these wonderful pictures) scrubbed the containers and later on, Michael rinsed them and let them dry.