Photo: Sarah Cuttle
Gorgeous weather, delicious cake and a fine array of seeds and plants to give away made ‘Cake Sunday’ a really enjoyable get-together for neighbours participating in our community veg growing scheme. Over 100 households have now joined up to grow flowers and veg in their front gardens (and tree pits on the streets) and it was great to see lots of familiar faces as well as some new ones too.
Photo: Sarah Cuttle
This year we gave away purple French Beans, Swiss Chard, especially good for the less sunny garden, and wildflower seeds for tree pits all around our neighbourhood.
We also had masses of Hollyhock seeds, collected from Lindsey’s front garden to share, as these do surprisingly well in the inhospitable area around tree bases too.
Photo: Sarah Cuttle
Now in our fourth growing season, our green growbags and large planters are proliferating in front gardens, as neighbours are eager to grow a large selection of veg, including potatoes (as above), courgettes, tomatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and some very decorative rhubarb plants.
Photo: Sarah Cuttle
Front gardens are a great place to meet up with nieghbours on ‘Cake Sundays’, chat about all things horticultural and indeed anything else!
As part of the Chelsea Fringe this year, we’re inviting visitors to join us on Sunday May 27th 2013 for another bumper Cake Sunday, with all the trimmings. Amongst many metres of bunting, visitors can come sup tea and cake, and find out more about our community veg growing project. Our beans won’t be at the top of the poles by then, but we’ll be holding edible window box workshops,
a topiary demonstration by Tim Bushe and hopefully a few heats of the Chelsea Fringe Edible Olympics. Cucumber javelin anyone?
Out of my shed 
It sounds like a great event, and I love the photos Sarah took. Heard good things about it from those who were there and enjoyed the get-together. Very sorry I was not in town for this.
Hooray for this year’s community gardening getting off the ground. Looking forward to flowering tree pits, gorgeous front gardens, colourful window-boxes and containers, and a feast of veg-growing. Glad too to hear that rainwater butts have been ordered in anticipation of the drought. And always on for cucumber javelin myself!
Hi Nicolette, have signed you up for Cucumber Javelin! Yes, water butts hugely advisable as it hasn’t rained for weeks and the temps have been so high.Looking forward to veg-growing feast too. Nx
What a wonderful project to be involved in and the community spirit shines out of all those images. Well done all of you.
Thanks Sue! See you in May?
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