This Week With Grow for Life (7/4 - 13/4)

Welcome to the weekly blog!

We hope to be able to share with you a small snippet of each session that has taken place in the week gone by.

Tuesday

Our Herbs and Nature session this week involved chatting about basil (Ocimum basilicum), the wonderful tropical herb that makes it's way into various global dishes including Italian pesto and Thai curries!

The next job on the list was pricking out leek, chamomile, and lovage seedlings for the Urban Garden in Bath, as well as sowing some cucumbers and courgettes.

The group then headed into a sunny Royal Victoria Park to visit the large Horse Chestnut Trees, alongside spotting some Elder and Hawthorn.

Wednesday

Our Wednesday group made their way up to the Serenity Garden at Haycombe Cemetery to make use of the "free plants" from last week's splitting session.

The first job was lifting the mypex that was previously put down to kill off grass and weeds, before digging out roots to clear the new bed for planting.

The group then planted in to the new bed, with a cut back of the dead from herbaceous perennials in the already established flower beds finishing off the general tidy up of the area.

Thursday

This week's session in the Walled Garden felt like we took a day trip to summer!

We made sure our fruit trees and other new plantings had lots of water, and planted out salads, snapdragons and panicum grasses, while in the polytunnel we pricked out tomatoes and cornflower, and sowed our cucumber seeds.

As we packed up in the afternoon sun we also welcomed back the first swallows to arrive in the garden this year - it was such a beautiful and therapeutic morning!

That brings us to the end of this week, check back in next Sunday to see what we've been up to!