
Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 61 of 66 Thu 15th Sep 2016 8:57am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:4826 So they are! Thank you ![]() |
Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member Thread starter | 62 of 66 Thu 15th Sep 2016 12:44pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2984 Don't tell me MR, you found that out for yourself. Now he tells us ! ![]() ![]() |
Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 63 of 66 Fri 16th Sep 2016 10:36am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:1982 During the early fifties, I was told a few people were going to make a garden in Coventry with a difference, I asked myself what difference so I visited. A field had a rabbit proof wire fence of about half acre square, already laid out in smaller plots, two of which had the turf removed to a corner of the plot, there were two small wooden sheds, only three people working. I entered and asked what type of garden were they planting plus other questions.
An organic garden. I visited a few days later and more turf had been removed and they were planting fruit bushes, the first time I had heard the word organic linked to gardens. Up to the war there were no other kind, soot being the only thing not organic. I believe later they were joined by Henry Doubleday who introduced Russian 14 bocking comfrey as an alternative to manure. They thrived.
A few then bought ground in Surrey and became the Chase Organic Garden. For the last forty years I have bought all my seed from them. Two years ago they changed their name to the Organic Gardening Catalogue. Yesterday their winter catalogue came through my post box. I really think they did a lot for Coventry in the gardening world. |
Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 64 of 66 Fri 16th Sep 2016 10:44am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:4826 Garden Organic in Wikipedia |
Heathite Coventry All posts by this member | 65 of 66 Sat 8th Apr 2017 7:02pm Member: Joined Aug 2012 Total posts:403 A gardening chart. Helpful or harmful side by side planting
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 66 of 66 Tue 18th Apr 2017 3:18pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:1982 There's a growing sense of delight simply being in a garden
Like a book of curiosity and pleasure
The book should murmur with a voice of outdoor happiness
And a garden brimming over with flowers
Mark the days and weeks and months
With buds, and blossom
You just have to learn that every flower, every leaf is a letter
And you will find yourself carried away in the beautiful story. |