Garden Progress – Okehampton Community Garden

May 9, 2019June 6, 2021 Okehampton Community Garden Garden Progress

Our ‘little’ Shed ~ the story so far

: Clearing the ground ready to build our shed

July 2017 — A few months later the posts went in the ground

22309094_1717469524944031_2294803412801936511_n — The waterproof membrane and cladding go up

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Now to protect the floor from the rain as best we can

26171081_1805169362840713_9137058105558914875_o — The roof timbers go up

Dec 2017 — And just before the snow arrives we have a roof!

The partition wall to separate the workshop/storage area from the tea room

A little problem has sprung up, with water getting in somewhere

Our first event using the shed…The Big Lunch…the front view of the shed

Arts and crafts ready for the kids at The Big Lunch

The guttering goes up along with the tank for rainwater harvesting

The leak all fixed, we can now get on with insulating and lining the shed

Anyone who turned up got roped into painting the shed

All the doors and windows fitted; doesn’t it look smart!

All the hard work is really paying off as the shed starts to look homely

Our first Tai Chi group enjoying tea in our new shed

: Still a bit of work to do on the workshop side of things

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 Okehampton Community Garden Garden Progress

The Beauty of Nature

The flower bed took shape after the pile of woodchip had been used up around the garden. The woodchip had been in a pile for two years so the weeds would be under control and so we decided to throw together a flower bed. People offered us plants until the flower bed was overflowing.

I think you’ll agree the style is slightly boho but it works. It is a small haven within the garden to attract pollinating insects.

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August 15, 2017August 23, 2017 Okehampton Community Garden Garden Progress

Blooming Polytunnel

This year we saw a raised bed being installed into the polytunnel. Community gardeners went along and collected horse manure from a friend with horses. We managed to get enough to fill up one side of the polytunnel.

Roy filled the polytunnel up with seedlings of lettuce and kale and sewed some radish seed. Henry planted out some tomatoes and peppers at the far end of the polytunnel.

We had harvests of lettuce, radish, kale and now have the first signs of aubergine poking through the blossoms. When the first lot of lettuce was all harvested we replaced it with cut and come again lettuce. Some spinach has now been sown in place of the radish.