Boyle Close

Boyle Close

Our newest plot on the Paths Estate

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

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

Coffee morning

Our coffee morning was well attended - the cakes lured everyone in :-)

Coriander growing well

See our herb border

Our fist bi-lingual plant sign

We're learning about plants in Bangladesh

What you can do here

Our classic roof slate signs
Enjoying a chat at the coffee morning
Harvesting our first crop of potatoes
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

Fruit

Veg


Herbs and flowers


What's great here

What's challenging here

Longer-term plans

Water butts

We have permission to fit a waterbutt, but it needs to be safe and secure. Timeline TBC.