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  • approx 640 square metres
    Size of the garden
  • approx 12 - 40
    Number of garden members
  • FREE
    Membership fees
  • never calculated
    Annual costs to run the garden
  • The land is part of the Elger Street building
    Who do you lease the land from
  • The botanical Gardens trust of Sydney, Community Greening New South Wales.
    Other organisations involved in the garden
  • TBC. The garden started in late 2018 early 2019.
    History of the garden

More details to come.

Successes recently have included:

  • seasonal growing and producing this spring-summer crop:
    • sugar baby watermelons, zucchinis and cucumbers, massive tomato (multiple plants and varieties), blueberries, spinach, kale, snow peas, all the allums (onion family), carrots, aniseed (root veg), a range of citrus, lemons, limes, a very large bay tree, eggplant, passionfruit on the way.
    • now we are growing a range of flowering plants (bee attractors for pollination) — a large trained bougainvillea growing up to create shaded areas and a star jasmine three large plants trained in a similar way vertically, up to it large trellis area to create shade and produce fragrance.
    • successful worm farming — to the point of transferring worms and castings to the garden
    • composting of building food waste
    • installation of a drip watering system for the entire garden with a timer system.

Challenges:

  • raised beds for elderly residents, in particular, are restrictive in their depth
  • designing, implementing and applying for grants for accessibility
  • unofficial training of residents on how to prune and cut produce instead of damaging ongoing producing plants.

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