Village Vegetables – update

2011 June 18
by Caroline

Bee friendly flowers will help pollination

The long brick bed in front of the Tesco site has now been planted up. There is a line of runner beans along the back, and in front tomatoes, strawberries, dwarf beans, peas, peppers, chillies, and a variety of herbs. Chris and I prepared the bed with compost to give them a good start, and we have been repaid already as they are growing really well. We are delighted that already people are helping themselves to the herbs, the chives are popular! The traders who have shops nearby are going to water, when it stops raining, and feed the plants.  We will be putting labels so you can see what it what.

 We are delighted with the overwhelmingly positive response from the village, and are looking forward to a really good harvest in a couple of months. Please email us if you have any special recipes for runner beans, or tomatoes. And if you have a veg plants that you would like to have included in a planter let us know, there is always a space somewhere!

 Before and after photos:

before - what a sad sight!


The finished bed - beans at the back, tomatoes, herbs, peas, dwarf beans etc at the front


And to give us something to aim for next year, these are photos I took at the Chelsea Flower show!

That will feed a few mouths! Bunny Guiness's stand


Leeks and ruby chard

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  1. 2011 July 24
    Nadia El-Bachir permalink

    Hello! I am an Ashtead resident and found out about this project when I was at the fishmongers a couple of weeks ago. I also noticed the various beds around the village and I think this is a fantastic project!! I was outside the Tesco on Craddocks avenue and noticed there were a couple of purple lettuces or at least I thought they were (?). My question is, do we just serve ourselves to the delicious produce? From the article above, I think we do but I just want to make sure before I start helping myself!!

    Thank you,
    Nadia

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