Empty Common Community Garden & Meeting Hut

This is the official blog of the award-winning Empty Common Community Garden, which is in Cambridge, UK. It is open to all and is very inclusive. It is based on the principles of permaculture and we grow food and flowers to encourage wildlife (bees, insects, etc). We use no pesticides.

Saturday, 24 January 2015

Birdwatching Weekend & Seedy Sunday reminder

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If you are a gardener or allotment holder you might consider birds as annoying scavengers and even 'pests'. For instance, if you ...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

Seedy Sunday, here we come!

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Isn't it remarkable how gardening swaps can look very similar?  Seed swap in Urbana, USA. Photo: Ryan Griffis, Wikimedia  This yea...
Monday, 12 January 2015

2015 is the 'year of the Horse'

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Horsetail alert: volunteers liming the beds Happy New Year! After a cold but sunny December (no snow for the Christmas holidays for us...
Friday, 19 December 2014

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

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April 2014, catching up by the old shed It has been an eventful year for Empty Common Community Garden, which celebrated its first ...
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Sunday, 14 December 2014

Pruning time!

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Vine pruning lessons, State Library of South Australia, Wikimedia Commons Many trees are pruned in winter, when it's really col...
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Sunday, 7 December 2014

The one about the exploding cucumber

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Many of us at the Empty Common Garden love the Real Seed Catalogue company . Their seeds are special because they preserve varieties of fru...
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Saturday, 29 November 2014

A new member

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It looks like we have a new member! Do you recall the RSPB's slogan... build it and they will come? Well this secretive, colourful bird ...
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