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How Bee Kind is your garden

The bumblebee Conservation Trust has set up this on line tool, to see how bee friendly the flowers in your garden are?

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Added by SarahF on January 29, 2013 at 12:32 — No Comments

Gardeners Wanted - Lymington Garden Share

After a week of publicity, Lymington now have seven (yes! 7!!) new gardens for sharing, one in Hordle, and more in Lymington.

So, if you live in the SO41  postcode and looking for more growing space please contact Emily or Rachel on the numbers below.

However, they will…

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Added by SarahF on December 4, 2011 at 11:30 — No Comments

Garden available in Hordle

Lymington Garden Share have a garden available in Hordle, Vaggs Lane.

 

Details of plot: 16m x 8 m, sunny situation. Grass at the moment. There is separate access, water from the trough and there is facility to store tools at gardeners own risk. Manure available and a compost heap on the back of the truck. They are flexible with times (by prior agreement). They would prefer for there not to be children gardening and also in lieu of produce would like some help maintaining the two beds… Continue

Added by Emily Cain on June 29, 2011 at 11:34 — No Comments

2nd Garden Available in SO41 area

Further to matching our first garden to its new gardener, we have been offered another garden in central Lymington and are looking for a gardener ideally within walking or cycling distance.

 

Plot details: There is currently a vegetable patch of approximately 5 x 6m plus an additional 3 x 6m grass area which can be dug up and used. A photo is attached. It is ideal for a beginner gardener as the owner is an experienced vegetable grower and will be growing their own veg alongside the… Continue

Added by SarahF on January 27, 2011 at 14:02 — No Comments

New Garden Share for SO41 area

Transition Lymington have started to set up a local Land Share scheme for the SO41 area. So far we have been offered a garden in central Lymington and are looking for a gardener ideally within walking or cycling distance of the garden.

Plot details: There is currently approximately 5 x 6m grass area plus an additional 5 x 2m clearable area (brambles and shrubs) so some work is neccessary to prepare the land for growing vegetables. A photo is attached. The garden owner is hoping for…
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Added by SarahF on November 29, 2010 at 18:30 — No Comments

Green Space Allotment: Materials Needed

You may have read my previous post about the new collaborative growing project, Green Space, that launches later this month. The event listing can be found here, for more information

The project involves creating an interactive and educational comunity garden. The garden will be entirely created and maintained by volunteers. To follow on the same community spirit, we will be sourcing all our materials through… Continue

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 10, 2010 at 12:28 — No Comments

GREEN SPACE

"GREEN SPACE" is a local food and sustainability project; to install a community allotment and growing space.



The idea was coined by myself and Michael Parsons, two young enviromentalists in the lymington area. We approached a voluntary project in the area The EDGE Project, and the idea was quickly put into motion. After presenting the idea to ArtSway, it was approved and we started to make plans for installing the garden.



The Green space garden will include an interactive,… Continue

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 4, 2010 at 14:03 — No Comments

Copper tools to appear at the VegEvent 2010

Forgive me but I will be writing about the few, selected retailers who will be supporting the VegEvent 2010. I have carefully selected products that are essential and where possible local. It's a happy fact that to grow-your-own you don't need to spend much, I've tried to focus on the basics like, seeds and tools that you do need.



I'm a sucker for beautifully made hand tools.

I enjoy using garden tools that are well made and well… Continue

Added by Richard Loader on January 7, 2010 at 22:00 — 1 Comment

Temperature trials for garden cloches, the results are in.

Hello all,

We have recently carried out a study of or PoshCloche garden cloches to see just how effective they are at warming the soil and protecting the plants.



Temperature trials taken throughout December 2009 show that PoshCloche cloches give even greater protection and warmth when the weather is at its coldest.



During the coldest part of the trial period (11th to 17th December 09) it was on average 2.7 ºC warmer under a PoshCloche. Average soil surface… Continue

Added by Marie Waterhouse on January 4, 2010 at 21:46 — No Comments

What to sow and Plant in January

Hello all,

Happy New Year and I hope you are as excited about the new growing season as I am. The days are already getting longer and the list of vegetables to sow grows monthly from now on.



I have created the sowing guide for January which you can find by Clicking Here

The list includes details of the specific… Continue

Added by Marie Waterhouse on January 4, 2010 at 21:38 — No Comments

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VOTE for the best in Hampshire

Posted by SarahF on April 22, 2013 at 18:30 0 Comments

I am delighted to announce that Spice ‘n’ Easy has been nominated in this year’s Hampshire Life Food & Drink Awards and I am hoping to make it on to the short list of finalists.  To help in this endeavour I would be most grateful if you would…

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Can you help on the stall?

Posted by SarahF on April 19, 2013 at 18:16 0 Comments

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Can you help us?

The Food Challenge have booked a stall at the New Forest Spring Fair on Sunday 5th May.

We will running a very activity led stall, with lots of seed planting, poem writing and pot making.

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We like cheese!

Posted by Margaret K Marsh on April 9, 2013 at 10:42 0 Comments

I tried the cheese from the Fernhill Cheese Company and went back for more! Soft, creamy and fresh, the children liked it too. Worth stopping at their stall at Lymington Saturday Market just opposite St Thoma's Church.

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