Summer survivors: Grow your own vegetables

Long, sunny days are wonderful for crops in community gardens and allotments, until the rain comes to an abrupt halt! With hotter, drier summers becoming more common across the UK, consider how to grow your own vegetables successfully. Some crops positively revel in sunshine and lack of rain, whilst others struggle when temperatures soar. Constant…

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Holiday-Proof Your Community Garden

August is a wonderful month in the garden. There is a glorious abundance of summer veg crops, and containers are at their very best. It’s also the time when many of the community head off on holiday. This leaves behind the question of how to keep plants well watered when fewer folk are around. The…

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How to survive: Hosepipe Bans

The bane of every gardener’s life, hosepipe bans are slowly becoming a common part of life up and down the country. Up to 640,000 households across Devon and Cornwall are currently facing their own, enforced by South West Water in efforts to ‘break through the drought cycle’. This is a direct result of 2022, where…

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Tips for May

Within our Cultivation Street network there are individuals with amazing knowledge both about gardening and running community gardens. They understand first-hand the needs of organisations and can tailor their advice to this. Our tips for the month is written by Cath from Welsh House Farm Green Grafters community gardening group. Cath not only has endless…

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Effective Watering Tips

Keeping plants well-watered is really important – it’s absolutely vital that they receive enough moisture every day in order to grow and thrive – and if there’s been no rain, it’s up to us to supply that water. Top tips Add organic material, such as well-rotted manure, when planting – this gives natural moisture-retentive properties…

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