Mill Lane Community Garden 
Mill Lane Community Garden This page will document the transformation from a field to a community garden, via a building site. It will be updated on a fairly regular basis,
especially following any work done on the site. And rather than have a page that just goes on and on and on ...
Each calendar year's worth of progress will be made into a separate page.
Listed in reverse chronological order are details of progress on the site, which will include a few photos.
Rather than overload the progress pages with hundreds of photos, a Flickr account has been created online that will be the repository of all the photos taken, for those of you who are interested.
However, it should be noted that the free Flickr account only allows 1000 photos. Therefore a second account has been setup for 2025 onwards.
The photos on Flickr will be larger and will be grouped into albums that will reflect the entries below. Each sub-heading below is a link to its specific Flickr album,
which will open in a new tab. Or, if you want to see all the albums, click here.
Previous years (which will open in a new tab) can be found:
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 and prior
We held our annual Mothers' Day event last Saturday (29th March) and it was lovely to welcome so many of you to the garden. We hope you all enjoyed looking around as well
as having some tea and cake. Thanks also to the volunteers on the day and to the bakers of the delicious cakes!
Prior to Saturday's event, in addition to mowing the grass and digging over a bed or two,
one of our team painted all the trip hazards in the garden. We also dug in the green manure in one of the beds (still two more to go), took some sage cuttings and tidied up one of the planters
at the front.
And today it is the vernal equinox, so from an astronomical perspective, it's spring!!!
Work has been continuing on the pond area:
We also had a delivery of 12 planters. The first six have now been constructed,with stones at the bottom & top filled with soil & manure. Five of them have been
planted up with rhubarb, sage, rosemary, chives, and oregano. The last one will have some pak choi, basil & coriander.
And, of course, there are tasks that visitors won't see, like fitting an opening window to the greenhouse and covering some shelves in preservative
Meteorological spring has sprung and a big thank you to the amazing crew from the Community Payback Scheme and our volunteers for their hard work on St David's Day.
Much digging out occured:
- a new pond
- the compost bins
- the sloe plants
Further work took place to prepare the wildflower area. The sun shone and the day was really productive. Again thanks to everyone involved.
I suppose the best thing about February is that it's almost Spring with snowdrops, crocuses peeping their heads up from the soil plus other signs of life returning.
In addition to the routine tasks in the garden we are also starting to refurbish the pond area and we've already had a couple of visitors.
Another task we are planning is one that was never on any list of things to do.
Alas, we've recently had a couple of large vehicles park on the grass at the entrance/exit which is not only potentially dangerous but is really not good for the grass nor indeed the soil. So we've decided that we need to plant hedging
along the edge and we'll take the opportunity to create a footpath into the garden at the same time.
Although it's not really the time for doing much in the garden, the plants continue to grow.
The snowdrops are starting to show and we have quite a few bulbs breaking through.
