Now that the weather has dried up, we're finally attempting to finish of the mural at the Green Man Garden. Most of the paint got washed off by torrential rain after the big community painting day back in the autumn, so it's ...
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Love Your Garden!
On Wednesday 13th Feb, a (very!) hardy band of volunteers joined us for a morning in the Green Man Garden, keen to find out more about growing their own food and improving their gardens. Below - reconstructing the ...
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Compost stables!
The Weekday Conservation Team and their skills were needed at the Green Man Garden at Addison Howard Park during October. Compost bins were needed. These are easy to build if you know how.
We used wooden pallets for the ...
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I’m not going to make a joke about being batty for the garden…
Back in sunny, warm, September, we welcomed lots of visitors to the Green Man Garden for a Bat Workshop.Diana from the Beds Bat Group came along to give us a talk about bats, and answered plenty of questions from the group ...
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Reaping what we’ve sown!
Wednesday May 30th saw the second public drop-in gardening session at the Green Man Garden, and there was plenty for the volunteers to enjoy!Not only did we have a beautiful sunny day, but there was also the small matter of ...
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Green Man Garden gets even greener
A brave band of people faced the rain on Saturday 28th April to plant up the raised beds in the Green Man Garden in Kempston. This project is ongoing through the year and will involve regular drop-in gardening sessions as ...
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More bars to raise!
Following an earlier post about Raising the Bar - a project at Addison Howard Park where we constructed 2 raised beds and created a bog pond, on 13th Feb we went back and raised more bars (well rails actually) and constructed ...
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Raising the bar
Earlier on in the year, BTCV were asked by Bedford Borough Council to help build 3 raised beds (planters) and create a bog pond at Addison Howard Park in Kempston. Above: Katherine saws the timber to length, Ed is helping ...
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