Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2023 8:08:57 GMT
The Community Garden has once again been included as part of Haywards Heath's entry into the South and South East In Bloom competition this year, with judging probably in July. The last time we were included was in 2019.
Four years on the planting of vines around the arbour is now mature, the roses at the entrace arch are lovely, and there is some impressive spring planting and the central summer bed looks great in the late summer. A group of volunteers is starting now on some major replanting and other work including a shed for tools and a repositioning of the barbeque area.
We'd like to invite all plotholders on the site to take part in this great opportunity to show our pride in growing. We will be removing the gooseberry bushes planted in each of the 4 quadrants. They're all good fruiters but unfortunately the birds know that and beat us to the prize each year, so we would like to offer them to anyone who wishes to offer a good home and plant them somewhere they can be netted.
We'll be starting with these two front quadrants this week. Anyone who would like gooseberry bushes please contact Murray, Andrew or Sylwia on site or join our WhatsApp group and send us a message. And that's not all, we 'd like to ask your help and ideas in the replanting of these growing areas. To make an entry effective for this year we will be mostly planting annuals, but longer time we'd welcome any kind of sustainable planting.
Last for now: we're going to put our shed down on the existing hard standing where we have had barbeques and other events, but don't worry, we'll be putting down hard standing for a new area on the other side of the central bed. We're looking for ballast to form the foundations for this so if you have any stones, half-bricks, bits of old paving, just put them in a barrow and wheel them up to the garden and we'll take them off your hands! Any paving slabs would of course be very welcome.
