Community Garden
Erskineville Road,Erskineville (opposite BP Service Station )
Working Days10am, 1st Sunday each month.In the garden, opposite BP service station,
Bring your tools and have some fun.
- We have an enthusiastic resident of "The Presidio" apartments
encouraging the neighbouring apartments to deliver their scraps to a
bin, so the bin can be emptied with the Erko community composting
……..three cheers
- Local businesses are also encouraged to participate in community
gardening and composting, with "The Hive" recently starting up a small
plot
- Local businesses can also contribute to composting with fruit and
veg scraps, paper napkins and coffee grinds, and also lessen their
volume of waste to landfill
- Weather and plenty of rain has been great for gardening, and the
best veggies for harvesting have been leafy greens (spinach, chard,
rocket, parsley)
- The peas and snow peas are almost ready for harvesting (if you don’t start picking now as they are so yummy)
- We found lots of eggplants hiding under leaves mint, oregano, thyme and other herbs are growing well
- The monthly meeting bees are the first Sunday of every month from
10am, and last Sunday we had a good turnout of curious and interested
locals
- The composting bins are for everyone to use, to encourage saving
scraps to bring to the bins, thus saving throwing in with household
rubbish
- Composting reduces household waste that is transported for
tipping, and is a great source of nutrients for the gardens when it has
turned to lovely dark mulch
- Composting can include fruit and veggies scraps, crumpled newspaper
& napkins (carbon), vacuum dust, garden cuttings...but NO MEAT,
FISH, BONES OR DAIRY
- Community gardening and composting is a great way to be in a
relaxing environment, meet neighbours, learn about edible foods from
other gardeners, become inspired, and much more...
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