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Late summer A message from


“ Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of colour before me. Who could ask for more?”


- Bev Adams


he Community Garden has been teeming with life recently. Not only have volunteers been preparing for the RHS judging and the “It’s Your Neighbourhood” award but also we have seen a great increase in visitors during the summer sunshine. One lunchtime in July more than 12 people were there – couples having picnics, people pick’n’paying sugarsnaps, sweet peas and red currants, and an office lunch party from Marchant Petit!


T The students from Kingsbridge


Community College have continued to help out on Friday mornings, and have worked in both polytunnels, stringing up the tomatoes and the rampantly growing sweet potatoes and weeding the squashes before they take over. They have also diligently pricked out tray-fulls of Wallflower and Sweet William seedlings which they had sown earlier and removed the parasitic broomrape which had threatened the survival of the Verbena bonariensis in the dry garden.


Furthering our opportunities to supply information to visitors we have set up a ‘Watch out for Wildlife’ chalkboard indicating what to


look for in July and August, after sightings of a variety of insects – a scarlet tiger moth on weeds, and various damselflies and dragonflies around the pond. Unwanted wasps have been found ‘milking’ a black aphid infestation on the willows near the tool shed!


We have also explained our


oxalis experiment, attempting to eliminate this persistent plant in the lower poly tunnel by companion planting of Tagetes minata whose root secretions supposedly deter at least ground elder and bindweed. Identification charts of


Despite the hot weather and


the constant need for watering at least the crops, the garden continues to flourish and to serve the Community. It’s a pleasure to be there and to share the peace and quiet which makes it such an amenity for the neighbourhood. Let’s hope those RHS judges agree!


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the numerous varieties of tomatoes being ‘tested‘ in the greenhouse, also provide interesting reading for vegetable growers.


Kingsbridge Community Garden


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