Just a quick reminder that this year Permaculture Day is on Sunday May 6th  - this coming weekend – and that the Blue Mountains Organic Community Gardens will be having an Open Day from 11am – 3pm.

A previous post with a listing of our planned activities for the day is here:

http://bluemountainscommunitygardens.org/2012/04/15/international-permaculture-open-day-may-6th/

This is an international event and you will find many listings for what is happening in Australia and elsewhere here:  http://www.permacultureday.info

Late last year, the community gardeners were delighted to receive a $1000 Community Grant from Katoomba Community Bendigo Bank.

“We have put this grant to work buying supplies of pruning gear,  replaced some aging tools, replenished the first aid kit and fixed up a broken wheelbarrow with a new lease of life” says Kat Szuminska.

To celebrate this support on Friday this last week Brigitte MacKenzie from Bendigo Bank brought us this fabulous giant cheque!

Support like this really is very much appreciated by the volunteers that work at the gardens and consequently all those other locals who visit, use and enjoy the Blue Mountains Organic Community Gardens.

Thanks!

Nice day for gardening as usual  Today we did some remedial pruning on the umaboshi plum circle, completed the filling and setup of the third quick pick metal raised garden near the carpark and then did some general weeding and planting and checking on growth etc. A very nice productive day again.

Artfully spreading the seaweed…

Remedial weeding… and plant transplanting…

Turning the black walnuts out after a good 2 week soaking and contemplating the outcome…

Thanks to everyone who turned up to help out

Well we had a good turnout of people and a very productive pleasant Autumn day today. The broad beans and peas we planted last week are bursting through. We completed the planting out of seeds in the plots that were cleaned up last week. This included more dwarf peas interplanted with radishes, silver beet, carrots and lettuce.

Jed has been working on the potato patch. The leaf fall is starting to build up.

We constructed another metal raised quick pick garden for the carpark area. This will be filled with soil and compost over the next week ready hopefully to be planted out next weekend. Annie and Franklin spent some time cutting hose for the edges and we reinforced them all a little more. The existing plants are growing well and this is turning into a very productive area. Despite being fairly exposed to the elements it is very sunny and the seeds and seedlings seem to like the raised warm space.

Thanks again to all who turned up and helped out.