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Boyle Close
Boyle Close
Our newest plot on the Paths Estate
About this garden
About this garden
Boyle Close is our first joint venture with a resident. Until April, it was an overgrown patch with flytipping thrown in.
With funding from Near Neighbours and Nature Hubs, we've started to turn this patch of land into a thriving garden.
The plan
The plan
To scale and movable - low-fi paper plan, worked out with input from everyone involved. It was important to take into account the windows of the flat who face onto the garden and to get the spacing right.
Looking at our work
Sweet peas
Raised beds
Onion flowers
Activities here in 2024
Activities here in 2024
March - get permissions from LBC Housing and Parks [Done!]
12 April - dig flower border at edge, advertise coffee morning
25 or 26 April coffee morning with neighbours
29 April - set up raised beds
Start planting and gardening during our weekly sessions
12 July - second coffee morning with Neighbours and lift potatoes
30 August - we'll be joined by Nature Hub volunteers from our local Starbucks branch
Coffee morning
Coffee morning
Our coffee morning was well attended - the cakes lured everyone in :-)
Coriander growing well
Coriander growing well
See our herb border
Our fist bi-lingual plant sign
Our fist bi-lingual plant sign
We're learning about plants in Bangladesh
What you can do here
What you can do here
Join our gardening sessions
Water in your own time
Enjoy watching the transformation
Our classic roof slate signs
Enjoying a chat at the coffee morning
Harvesting our first crop of potatoes
Sweeping up - always part of our work
Showing off the Bengali squash plants
Visitors and neighbours enjoying the garden
What is growing this season
What is growing this season
Fruit
Fruit
Next year
Veg
Veg
Potatoes
Beans
Tomatoes
Chilis
Herbs and flowers
Herbs and flowers
Gauras
Calendula
African marigolds
Coriander
Fenugreek (Methi)
What's great here
What's great here
Sunny spot nicely framed by the wall
What's challenging here
What's challenging here
notorious for fly tipping on one corner
currently no water nearby
access is over a dwarf brick retaining wall
Longer-term plans
Longer-term plans
Water butts
Water butts
We have permission to fit a waterbutt, but it needs to be safe and secure. Timeline TBC.
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