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June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference May: grow your own tips Say ‘Seeds’ – big smiles from new cohort of Master Gardeners June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch 100-strong event – phew!
 
June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

Reserve your place at the National Masters Conference 2012 at Ryton Gardens. We’re inviting volunteers from across the country to share top-tips for supporting communities to grow their own food and make lovely compost. View the Masters Conference flyer (links opens PDF) Read about the National Masters Conference 2011 NEW for South London Master Gardeners [...]

May: grow your own tips

May: grow your own tips

Crops are confused this month. We’ve had a mild winter, sunny March, and wet April so far. But May is the time for catching up with sowing seeds and planting out your favourite fruit and veg. Remember there’s still time to prepare quick growing harvest for your ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’ on the 3rd June 2012. [...]

Say ‘Seeds’ – big smiles from new cohort of Master Gardeners

Say ‘Seeds’ – big smiles from new cohort of Master Gardeners

Introducing the newest batch of Master Gardeners: enthusiastic, knowledgeable and smiley. Perfect! On a lovely spring weekend (21- 22 April) we held our latest induction weekend. Our verdant venue was the Centre for Wildlife Gardening in East Dulwich. Our new cohort benefited from trainer Philip’s puns, Dr Anton’s review of best organic practice in the [...]

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

Garden Organic is inviting our network of South London Master Gardeners and local food growers to champion the Big Jubilee Lunch. As the UK’s leading organic growing charity, we use innovation and inspiration to get more people growing in the most sustainable way. This fourth annual Big Lunch, an initiative by the Eden Project, proudly [...]

100-strong event – phew!

100-strong event – phew!

Spring sprang in Waterloo on Saturday 10th March with a huge fruit-and-veg-athon. Nearly a hundred growers got together to sow plans for the 2012 growing year.  The occasion was a get together of South London Master Gardeners and some of the people they’ve been supporting with growing over the last 20 months.  Over a massive [...]

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Big Lunch 2012

Big Lunch 2012MG Kate writes… We are having a street party where I live. I started growing pumpkins and sunflowers to give away for people to plant in their front gardens. I was unsure of the reception but pleased there was a lot of real enthusiasm for the idea. The area has changed a lot (for the [...]

May Bank Holiday – MGs get everywhere

My first blog

Events

May 20th: Meet the Master Gardeners

May 20th: Meet the Master GardenersCome and sow some seeds, get growing advice and register your interest in a local growing project. Tell us what you’re up to growing-wise, and network with like-minded growers. Venue courtesy of Bread and Roses Pub, 68 Clapham Manor Street SW4 6DZ. In conjunction with two lovely local gardens in Clapham Manor Street, entered in [...]

May 26th: Schools Master Gardener training

Jun 3rd: The Big Lunch

News

May Bank Holiday – MGs get everywhere

May Bank Holiday – MGs get everywhereSouth London Master Gardeners were out at several events this weekend. No chill could dim the fire for sharing their enthusiasm and gardening knowledge! On Monday brand new MGs Nick, Kerry and Sarah set up gazebo and banner at Vauxhall City Farm Eco Garden Party.  Kerry made her renowned seed bombs, the same that got [...]

Say ‘Seeds’ – big smiles from new cohort of Master Gardeners

MG Claire – au revoir!

Case Studies

St Mary’s Plot’s Got the Lot!

St Mary’s Plot’s Got the Lot!St Mary Magdalene C of E School is situated on a ring road in the centre of Peckham, and it is where two of my children still go to school. It is quite unpreposessing until one enters under the wooden arches that mark the entrance to a former access road that in the last two [...]

Streatham Kite Festival

Lambeth Officers visit our Community Garden

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