We had an excellent end of year celebration this evening.
Looking forward to a new decade of gardening and community!
Spring planting
The latest planting on our garden beds has been possible thanks to a donation form the Pyrmont, Glebe and Ultimo Menshed association.
We are all so happy to provide free fresh food possibilities to our local community.
Planting day
It was a beautiful day for our spring planting. Please see the images below.
The group
Joshua and Diego
planting bed no.1
Kerry and Ross
Happy gardeners
Kerry and Jan
Signposts
sorting out labels
Chives donation
Happy gardeners
Planting Day on Sunday 9 September, 2-4pm
Join us for a spring planting afternoon.
Sunday 9 September, 2-4pm
Meet the gardeners of Jubilee Kitchen Garden and learn how you can be involved.
Light refreshment provided.
Wicking Garden Bed for a Balcony
On Sunday, July 8, members of JKG held a workshop by the garden beds at Jubilee Park Oval.
The event was to introduce the local community on how to build a water-smart wicking garden bed for their balcony, courtyard or garden.
Diego, Rob and Jan explained to the attendees how the 5 wicking garden beds by The Arches came about by a group of people who either work, use or live locally to Jubilee Park and are passionate about gardening and sharing the produce.
An example of a commercial wicking bed was shown before Diego went on to explain the process and components of how to make a wicking garden bed for any area at home.
The attendees were then able to make their own miniature wicking garden bed, using a small container with gravel, plastic tubing, shade cloth, soil and sugar cane mulch.
They were then able to take cuttings from the garden beds and plant their own tiny garden.
Afternoon tea was supplied and an enjoyable afternoon was shared.
Photography by Lisa
Free workshop Sunday 8 July
How to build a wicking bed for your balcony.
WHAT: Learn how to build a water-smart wicking bed at your local Community Garden.
Wicking beds are a wicked way to be water-smart. Easy to build, they are effectively a self-watering system to grow veggies and herbs and flowers.
In a three hours workshop, we will explain how the wicking bed system works using our 5 garden beds as an example. We will also show you how to build a simple wicking bed for your balcony and start growing straight away!
The workshop is free but you need to book your place.
Reserve your place online at www.trybooking.com/WINS
WHERE: Jubilee Kitchen Garden is located beside the Mens Shed and Archies Studios, under the Light Rail track at Jubilee Park Oval.
WHEN: Sunday July 8, 2018
1pm to 4pm.
Workshop starts at 1:30pm
WHAT TO EXPECT: Friendly people passionate about gardening and sharing skills. Nibbles, drinks and tea. Take away printed notes detailing the simple steps to build your own wicked wicking bed.
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE CITY OF SYDNEY VIA A HEART FOUNDATION GRANT- BRINGING HEALTHY SKILLS IN THE COMMUNITY
Please download the flyer here >
Flyer July 8 workshop, colour
Monthly catch up
Working bee every second Wednesday of the month. Today we pulled out some horseradish ( new growth keeps coming) watered and mulched well, as the days of April are quite warm at the moment. #communitygarden#jubileepark #glebe
Visiting fellow green thumbs!
Yesterday a group of Jubilee Kitchen Gardeners was offered a tea and a tour of the amazing WHite Creek Native Nursery.
It was amazing to see such incredible facilities were a lot of native seedlings get produced for bush regeneration projects in the Inner West.
Below some images from the day from Lisa.
Wicking bed
Our garden boxes are wicking beds. What does that mean? It means is a self watering system, perfect for gardens that do not get attended daily. Here is a design of the system from @milkwood_permaculture resources and credit is where credit’s due we pillaged freely from their teachings. So here it is, as a sign on the beds for people to understand what they are looking at and how it works.
#creditwherecreditsdue #wicking #garden #comunitygarden#ediblecities #feedtheneighborhood
Gardens never sleep
It is so good to see how much locals are embracing the gardens.
It makes us very happy to see families, commuters, locals on a dog walk stopping by the gardens and get a bunch of herbs to then take home with them.
Here below you will see two of the people who regularly meet to work on the gardens on Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30pm.
This is Jan and Robert. Both live locally, Jan just up the hill and Robert in the Harold Park apartments. Here topping up the soil and planting some seedlings.
Gardens never sleep 🙂
Jubilee Park Community Gardens 