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.

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Inosculation at Empty Common Community Garden

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Ino what? You might ask. In the photos above, Susanna held  two tree trunks together and tied them to an aluminium baking tray...
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Monday, 23 March 2015

Polytunnel party!

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On Sunday we celebrated the erection of the polytunnel. Thank you to the building team for such a sterling effort! Just click on the picture...
Monday, 16 March 2015

More gardening jobs for March: mulching

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Mulching with pine needles - pic courtesy of Wikimedia As the volunteers are still hard at work on the polytunnel here at the Empty Com...
Monday, 9 March 2015

Snail and slug control

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Snail - Wikimedia Last week, we mentioned stocking up on snail and slug control products. March and April are wet months in Britain and ...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Gardening jobs for March

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Empty Common Garden in late January Volunteers are still finishing off the polytunnel (pictures to come) and doing all sorts of jobs ar...
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Sunday, 22 February 2015

Wild garlic... green shoots of spring

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Wild garlic at Empty Common Community Garden This week I was sent a picture of the wild garlic. The team of volunteers have been hard a...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Getting ready for spring - gardening jobs for February

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Photo from Wikipedia Snowdrops have been joined by crocuses and primroses in many gardens. Daffodils are going to follow pretty soon...
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