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Workshop on organic pest control methods: Jun 8

By Common Growth on June 1, 2013 in Common Growth, Community events, Dynamic Gallery, Grow Wild, New Cross, Skills, Uncategorized, Volunteers

Grow Wild and Common Growth are inviting you to another free permaculture gardening workshop at the Common Growth Community Garden on Sandbourne Rd. The workshops are informal and fun, and it’s a great way to learn a few more gardening skills and share tips with other gardeners. Saturday’s course is on pests, and although this [...]

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New Greenhouse, Soup and Sunflowers at Common Growth

By Common Growth on April 8, 2013 in Common Growth, Community events, Dynamic Gallery, Grow Wild, Skills, Uncategorized, Volunteers

The ‘first’ day of spring brought lots of people to Common Growth. As well as 8 of our regulars, we welcomed 8 new people to the garden. /We finally finished the greenhouse! So we immediately got underway with our seed planting – starting with like 120 sunflowers for the ’1000 Sunflowers in New Cross’ project. [...]

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February the 3rd: SOUP-er Sunday at Common Growth

By Common Growth on January 30, 2013 in Common Growth, Community events, Conversation Kitchen, Grow Wild, Volunteers

Hi Everyone, The dark and miserable month of January is nearly over and slowly our daylight hours are increasing again.Yeah! To celebrate this we are starting February with another SOUP-er Sunday on the 3rd of February! Louise from Grow Wild will be sharing some delicious home made soup with us and if weather permits [...]

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Gardening heroes

By catherine on January 23, 2013 in Grow Wild, Telegraph Hill Centre

10cms of snow might have been too much for chunks of London Transport but not for the heroic Grow Wild team and their volunteers. Thanks to energy, commitment and excellent Grow Wild refreshments they made their first raised bed on Sat 19th. See here for the full story and contact Ella on if you would [...]

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BIG BUILD: Telegraph Hill Community Garden Sat 19 Jan

By catherine on January 16, 2013 in Community events, Grow Wild, Volunteers

Come kickstart the Cloister Garden in to the new year by helping build raised beds this Saturday 19th January 10am-4pm. Our main focus for the day will be cutting the scaffolding boards to size and assembling 6 large rectangular raised beds, which will line the gardens boundary. These will be filled with soil and herbs [...]

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A hive of activity at Common Growth

By Common Growth on January 11, 2013 in Blog, Common Growth, Community events, Dynamic Gallery, Grow Wild, Uncategorized, Volunteers

Sunday 6ht of January 2013 I was pleasantly surprised to see that on a miserable grey Sunday so many volunteers braved the cold and came to help out at the Common Growth garden. With the promise of cups of tea, hot soup and cakes as a reward, 12 of us set out to build the [...]

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