Gardening in April

We are planting seedlings of beetroot, lettuce, sugarloaf cabbage, dill, peas and many more. At the moment there are butter beans and green beans galore to be harvested. We have trimmed the bana grass to let in more sun.

Meetings for April

Saturday morning working bees - 13th and 20th April with morning tea mid morning.

Wednesday working bees - 3rd and 17th April from 9:30am or come along at a time that you prefer.

Wednesday general meetings - 10th and 24th April at 4:30pm

Governance meeting- 17th April at 5:30pm.

Look forward to seeing you soon . . . 

A New Crop of Authors

At last there will be far fewer reasons for our blog being out of date.

Welcome to Julie, Maria and Gabriella our newest enthusiastic bloggers.

Autumn is a great time for gardening and  there will be plenty of activity at the garden over the next couple of months as fallow beds are planted  and existing plantings maintained.

Please come and help us refresh the garden over the weeks ahead.

The seedlings have hardened off and are ready to go!

We Won!!!!!!
Congratulations to all our Great gardeners.

Kiama Community Gardens won the community garden category of the Kiama Garden Club's competitio for the second year running.  Fantastic!!!!

The garden looked beautiful on the day that Hazel & Rob judged.  Come to the garden on Saturday April 6th & help us keep it beautiful, enjoy a wonderful morning tea & chat & take home some lovely fresh vegies.

See you there.  We start about 9am.

Hello all,
 

The garden is ready for some TLC.

 

This Saturday 2nd February in the garden we will be:

• Planting out the new bed on the top terrace with Zucchinis
• Planting out the new bed in the middle terrace with beetroot seedlings etc from the hot house
• Constructing another pallet compost bay near the top gate
• Watering
• Feeding the worms
• Weeding
• Harvesting
• Enjoying morning tea & chat

We will be starting from 8:30.

 

As always, please enter the garden from the Kiama Sports Fields. Parking is in the Kiama Leisure Centre car park or in Thompson St near the end of Bong Bong St. Please wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes. Please bring a hat, gloves and a tasty treat to share for morning tea (a gold coin donation box available in lieu of bringing food). Hope to see you there.

Happy New Year Community Gardeners!

 

Natures Fireworks!!!

Have you made a New Year's Resolution to:

• Eat more healthily
• Get more exercise
• Help out in the community more
• Expand your circle of friends
• Develop a new interest
• Grow more of your own food
• Have more fun this year

Well, Kiama Community Garden is the place to be this year.

The garden offers all the above and much more. Anyone can join in. There are ways to contribute from the highly energetic to the more gentle, both in the garden and in the organising of the garden.

Garden members share much more from the garden than just delicious healthy produce (though  this is a big drawcard), we also share knowledge, friendship, plants from home, and aspirations for the garden and our community.

In 2013 the garden is becoming incorporated and with this come new challenges and opportunities. Now is the time to get involved and help our garden grow.

Our next Working Bee is on Saturday 2nd February from 8:30.

As always, please enter the garden from the Kiama Sports Fields. Parking is in the Kiama Leisure Centre car park or in Thompson St near the end of Bong Bong St. Please wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes. Please bring a hat, gloves and a tasty treat to share for morning tea (a gold coin donation box available in lieu of bringing food). Hope to see you there.

Dear Community Gardeners,

You will see from the photos that the garden is looking wonderful and it is time to get back into it. We have had some fun in the garden in the last few weeks. The weather has been good and the social interaction has been terrific. We had a lovely pizza evening last Saturday and we are looking forward to the KCG Christmas Party in the next few weeks. Keep an eye on the minutes for details.

This Saturday we will be:

·         Planting eggplant seedlings

·         Sowing seeds

·         Weeding

·         Penning the procedure for pizza oven operation

·         Turning the hot compost

·         Deciding the future of the sugar cane

·         Watering

·         Checking worms

·         Enjoying morning tea & chat