Library Garden Planted Up for the Winter
Members of the Westbury Library Group and SusWoT have prepared the Library Vegetable Garden for winter and planted garlic, onions, leeks and broad beans.
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First Tomato Seeds Sown
SusWoT will be growing plants as usual this year to help people get growing. There are the first 101 sungold seeds just sown, soon to be covered in a fine layer of compost and put in a propogator and then on a warming mat. Hopefully most of them will be producing tomatoes that people will
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Library Garden Planted up for the Winter
Over the last few Saturday members of Westbury Library and SusWoT have planted up the Library Garden. Certain varieties of Broad Beans, Garlic and Onions will grow slowly over winter, much faster in spring and be ready in early summer. This will leave enough time to put in summer vegetable plants such as tomatoes, runner
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Library Garden Loving the Rain
May 27 2021, The Beans are almost ready to pick and the onions, shallots and garlic are coming on well in the Library Garden. The strange weather for growing things this year means that many of the vegetable plants that SusWoT grows to help people Get Growing are not ready to be planted out yet.
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Library garden runner beans have replaced broad beans
The Westbury-on-Trym Library Group with help from SusWoT have planted a selection of runner beans to replace the broad beans. There are three varieties of bean which will be available for library users to pick this summer. The green runner beans, Moonlight and Firestorm, need to be regularly picked to encourage new growth so please
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Library Garden Beans are Ready
The Beans sown in February are now being harvested and reports are that they are delicious. They need to be eaten now! It is hoped that we will be able to plant out some more things in a week or so, perhaps tomatoes, borlotti beans and courgettes. Plants are still available for planting out from
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The First Green Shoots at the Library Garden
A Library Garden for Westbury A group of people some from SusWoT some from the library planted broad bean seeds in the new library garden at the end of November. Now they have started to come up!
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Get Growing Saturday 2 June
SusWoT Get Growing Day This Saturday 2 June SusWoT has its Get Growing Day at 47 Abbey Road from 12 noon to 5 pm. The Community Garden on Stoke Lane, behind the Co-op, is also open from 1 pm to 4 pm. Some of the Tomatoes on sale tomorrow SusWoT will be selling tomato plants
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SusWoT Tomato Plants for Sale this Saturday at Westbury Fair
These tomatoes are now ready to be planted out! SusWoT will be selling tomato plants at just 50p each at the Westbury Fair on Saturday. We will be in the Doctors Car Park. The Fair is open from 11 am until 3:30 pm. Varieties available include Sungold (the sweet cherry tomato), alicante, shirley and tumbler
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Potting Along
On Saturday 11 people managed to pot up all the tomatoes, over 1000. Those not shown above were sifting garden compost! It is planned to use these plants to encourage people to grow their own by selling them at 50p a go at various events in Westbury-on-Trym.