Planning for Spring

We've made the decision as a group to stop current planting and focus on planning for next Spring. We will be at the Grow your Own event at Woodthorpe Park on the 15th September, 10am-3pm, so come along and say hi. If you can help on the stall, please email us on sowingsherwood(at)transitionsherwood.org.uk

A beautiful partnership with the Neighbourhood Watch

One thing I kept telling myself to do but never got round to doing was to put some small text about Sowing Sherwood into the bi-monthly NG5 Magazine. I received the August & September copy through my door last night, I flick through the pages, and come across the local Neighbourhood Watch page to find that they are looking to run a similar project to us, called Blooming Sherwood.

So last night, I called Michael, whose contact details were on the article, and explained who I was and told him about the Sowing Sherwood project. He told me that he had heard of it before and was going to make contact.

So we discussed about the background of the project, and we thought best not to duplicate these projects as they are pretty much the same project. So we have decided to merge the projects, and stick with the Sowing Sherwood name since we have a logo and flyers printed.

So great to see that we aren't alone in wanting to improve areas of Sherwood!

Tidying up!

On Sunday 28th July, a few of us spent some time tidying up the patch we have at Winchester St car park. We also returned to the other patch on the ground we had planted a few months ago - as we found it had grown a lot!

If you have any knowledge of growing food, please get in touch, and we are also looking for people to get involved with any watering & maintenance.

No plant!

Sadly, due to energy levels from a busy weekend, we didn't manage to plant tonight. Instead we discussed what we would need to do next. It was mentioned that we require the following items to continue:

• Organic non-peat compost / manure
• Organic fertiliser (rotenone, pyrethrum)
• Green manure
• Netting
• Canes

If you can help with the above, please get in touch with us.

Outreach and...signs!

We've been doing lots of outreach - through freeconomy, through Streetbank, and through Facebook. We've now set up a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and a flickr account to store our photos.

And we've got the flyer wording changed to match the fact we are now at Winchester St car park. We're getting these printed to put in local community areas very soon!

One of our wonderful volunteers, Katie, has produced some brilliant signs for the beds!! And so tonight we have put up the signs, which will hopefully draw people to the beds to see what's going on!

Whilst we were doing this, another person living opposite the beds spotted us and he has donated some spare plants - cabbages and cauliflowers! And we also heard that Michael's friend has some purple sprouting brocolli and some bee-friendly plants to donate to us!

So...we're going to dig up another area of the beds, just a bit further down, on Sunday evening at 6pm. Join us there if you can! Bring any tools and some water!

We have water!

Whilst watering the plants with our own water, the lady opposite the beds at 126 has very kindly offered to provide us with water from her house! This is great news! So if anyone needs any water, knock on her door, and you should be able to get some!

Oh and we did some planting today!

More clearing, more planting!

So we've just been donated some more plants from a lady who ran an Open Gardens plant sale event, and so we're going out to plant them at the end of the month. They're mainly bee-friendly plants, with a few herbs! The plants we've planted so far really need water, so anyone who lives locally, please give them some water! Our existing plants seem to be doing okay and are growing!