The joint St. Marks Church and Go Create allotment in Woodhouse Park has had a good first-year crop of lettuces, potatos, more (older) rhubarb, courgettes, gooseberries and lots of blackberries! Still to come are onions & leeks, more rhubarb, runner beans and more potatoes! Not bad considering none of us has had an allotment or grown anything before and we've only had the plot for 5 months!!It has not been easy since one of the volunteers got a full-time job (yipee!) but in these summer weeks we have been enjoying working there together and doing more organising of our allotment but there is still tons to do like clearing and covering one third of the allotment, tidying up the open shed, better collecting of water of the shed roof and the organising of sections and perhaps a raised bed for the springtime next year.
Our local contact in Newall Green who earlier in the spring cleared out his greenhouse to make room for a few courgette plants and plant some pumpkin seeds has also visited the site and volunteered to be our keeper of stores and look after the tools, teatowels and refreshments for us all! He made yummy biscuits this week and lemon tea!
Next we need to start visiting local gardens (by agreement!) and harvest some of the fruit trees in time for a big bake with local produce for St. Marks Harvest Festival Celebration on Wed. 10th Sept. & Sunday 14th Sept with harvest communion!
