The Wonky Garden

By Cultivation Street Staff | August 28, 2018

The idea for The Wonky Garden came about through friends, meeting at a wellbeing event during cancer treatment, who dreamed of creating beautiful outdoor spaces to nurture nature, educate and have fun. The charity was invited to take on an overgrown site at a community centre in December 2017 and the project has quickly built…

Reviving the school garden after the holidays!

By Cultivation Street Staff | August 28, 2018

Unless you’ve been lucky enough to have plenty of volunteers tending your school garden over the holidays, you’ll likely have a lot of work on your hands when the new school year begins. You may even be tempted to leave the garden until spring—but if you do, you could miss out on some great growing…

Carol Watson – Notcutts Tunbridge Wells

By Cultivation Street Staff | July 25, 2018

My memorable project I met with the teenagers from Oakley school gardening club, a school that facilitates young adults and children that have communication and learning difficulties, to talk to them about propagation in their school garden in their own polytunel. I chose this subject because it was something they could teach their parents friends &…

Midfield School Eco Garden

By Cultivation Street Staff | July 6, 2018

Introduction It began during Easter, 2015, when a couple of teachers who are passionate about getting the children outdoors put together a plan to get the students involved in more activities not classroom based. First they dug some plant beds and started growing vegetables. The school managed to get a bit of funding and some…

Includeme2 club

By Cultivation Street Staff | July 6, 2018

Who are the Includeme2 club? Includeme2 is a charity club for children, young people and adults based in Glasgow, Scotland. The club provides support to people with learning difficulties and disabilities, taking a community-based approach to improve and enhance the lives of the club’s members. Susan Wilson is the head volunteer and helps run a…

Alice’s Hampton Highlights

By Cultivation Street Staff | July 6, 2018

I was fortunate enough to go to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show on media day (2nd July). The gardens were stunning, like the weather. I had a really good day and so wanted to share my highlights with you, many of which I hope will give you, the Cultivation Street readers, ideas or will…

Tricks to hide your wheelie bin

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 27, 2018

Where would we be without our beloved wheelie bins? Long gone are the small, lift-and-carry bins of old, replaced by these gloriously practical, gigantic bins on wheels. There’s just one small problem… wheelie bins aren’t exactly the prettiest things to have gracing your front lawn. Wheelie bin storage units and woven screens If you have…

Edible High Town

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 22, 2018

My names Sam Willis and I’m involved in the Edible High Town Community Garden! My only real experience of gardening prior to this project was hoeing weeds in my grandad’s garden and mowing his lawn. However, since moving to High Town, Luton, I became aware of the amount of neglected green spaces around my local…

10x Greener

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 21, 2018

UPDATE: On the 27th May 2018 – 10x Greener hit their huge target of £7,500 in just several months!  The crowd funding page received backing from many online social media accounts, as well as both local and national newspapers. The money raised is being used to fund a skilled community gardener that will support residents…

Enjoy the outdoors- Clean Air Day 2018!

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 20, 2018

It’s a well-known fact that being out in the fresh air is good for both mind and body, and what better reason to get outdoors and enjoy exploring somewhere new than Clean Air Day (21st June 2018). No matter where you live, there’s a national park waiting to be explored that’s not too far away…