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To celebrate the sowing season Waltham Forest Council are organising free compost to be available all around Waltham Forest during Cultivate Festival. Compost will be available in a pile just bring a shovel and bags to help yourself. Locations where compost can be found throughout the...

25 March, 2014

To get you started growing your own, Waltham Forest Council’s Allotments team are offering you the chance to win an allotment plot and pay nothing for a year. Visit three of the main festival events and get your festival programme stamped to enter the prize...

24 March, 2014

Celebrity TV Gardener Joe Swift to open Cultivate, Waltham Forest Council’s Urban Food Growing Festival – 21-30 March 2014  Garden designer, journalist and television personality Joe Swift  will officially open Waltham Forest Council’s urban food growing festival this Friday 21st March at Leytonstone Library, 6 Church Lane,...

18 March, 2014

BEE17 is a not-for-profit beekeeping project run by Walthamstow residents Richard Smith and Helen Lerner. Their aim is not just to support bees but also to educate others about these fascinating creatures. Richard and Helen are members of Walthamstow Village in Bloom, part of the Walthamstow...

12 March, 2014

Growing Together is an on-going project at Higham Hill Children’s Centre where staff and families who visit the centre are transforming the small area at the front from its current state – an uninviting wasteland – into a planting area that the children can get...

12 March, 2014

When Caroline Thomas bought her house in Walthamstow in 1974 she decided to try growing her own fruit and vegetables. Green-fingered Parents “My parents were keen gardeners in Folkestone and they had allotments,“ Caroline told us, “My mother sold her flowers to hotels and flat-dwellers, and my...

12 March, 2014

Morag McGuire (from Artillery) and Del Taylor (from Original Army, part of Studio 3 Arts) came up with the idea of flying bean-shaped kits over Hollow Ponds “to conjure the start of spring and inspire the beans that have been planted to grow fantastic crops”. Taking...

12 March, 2014

Judy Beaupierre's story: “As someone whose dad was an “Agricultural Officer” and loved the outdoors and was always planting something or the other, I enjoyed a lot of home grown produce as a child however my attempt at food growing had only been a herb pot...

10 March, 2014

Here's some growing inspiration! Karen and Ian started growing their own five years ago and now grow fruit and vegetables in the front garden and in one of London Borough of Waltham Forest's allotments on Oliver Road. Last Christmas, apart from the turkey, the entire...

10 March, 2014

How to sow seeds indoors Overview Growing from seed is a simple and economical way of raising new plants for your garden. First master the techniques by sowing annuals in spring that will reward you with flowers in summer, then use these basic skills to grow perennials,...

10 March, 2014
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