Planting day on the estate
June 14, 2010
Yesterday we had our first planting day on the estate! We’ve recently got the first batch of compost produced from Maiden Lane food waste, and to celebrate we had a day where we gave away compost and free plants. We had over 120 purple sprouting broccoli, ying yang beans, climbing green beans, perpetual spinach and tomato plants – grown by SEED, and snapped up by residents:
The community centre roof has recently been cleared, and some of the planters refilled with fertile new topsoil. Throughout the day, about 30 residents came to help us mix in compost and plant in them. We had some fantastic advice from Chris who works at City Leaf, who knows everything there is to know about plants and growing, and who was around all day to provide personalized advice to residents.
We also built a raised planter as an example of the new growing spaces that could be created on the roof.
