Friday, August 31, 2012


A couple of weekends ago we had a lovely morning weeding, planting and chatting on the Hillside Native Food Forrest. It was a very productive couple of hours.

In a couple of weeks we will be commencing an experiment involving the best way to construct a no dig garden bed. This is a great opportunity for people to find out more about this easy and productive way of creating new vegie beds. Stay tuned to this blog for more details.

This weekend we will be:

  • Showing Green Box backyard gardeners around
  • Repairing the Pizza oven
  • Procuring timber from Jamberoo for the shade house
  • Planting out onion ,parsley and lettuce
  • Weeding
  • Preparing a materials list for the shade house
  • Preparing a bed for kiwi fruit
  • Watering
  • Enjoying morning tea & chat

Thursday, August 23, 2012

New Members Welcome!

The community garden is near the leisure centre - come and visit soon!
We would love you to share your interest in growing food with us.

No Working Bee this Saturday August 25, but check the blog next week regarding Sept 1st.

Friday, August 17, 2012


As well as some of the usual tasks in the garden, this week we will be spending an hour or so weeding and planting in the Hillside Native Food Forrest. It is time to get the weeds under some sort of control before the spring growing season. This will give the native edible plants a head start in the growing season. It will also make ongoing maintenance of the weeds easier.
We will be repairing some of the recycled underlay that is being used as weed exclusion matting and mulch on the steeper slopes. The matting has taken a battering from the recent strong winds. We will be planting some Lomandra longifolia , Carpobrotus glaucescens (Pigface) and Tetragonia tetragonioides (New Zealand Spinach or Warrigal Greens).


So if you are interested in native edible plants or just want to get our hand dirty in our verdant community garden, come along from 9am this Saturday and enjoy the friendship, community spirit and sharing of knowledge and the harvest. And of course have a lovely cuppa.

This Saturday in the garden we will be:

  • Planting seedlings
  • Turning the hot compost
  • Weeding and planting in the Hillside Native Food Forrest
  • Putting up shelves in the kitchen
  • Feeding the worms
  • Finishing the high-tec pizza oven repairs


Please enter the garden from the Kiama Sports Fields. Parking is in the Kiama Leisure Centre car park or in Thompson St near the end of Bong Bong St. Please wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes. Please bring a hat, gloves and a tasty treat to share for morning tea (a gold coin donation box available in lieu of bringing food).

Thursday, August 9, 2012


Hello,

A lot has been happening at the garden. Les has constructed screens to keep the birds off the strawberries and they look delicious. Vince has planted our second round of potatoes and is working on preparing another bed. The top terrace will require good watering as the lack of serious rain over the last couple of months and the drying winds are taking their toll.



There is still a good harvest to be had so come along, get your hands dirty and enjoy a lovely cupper.

This Saturday 11th August we will be: 

    • Continuing the Pizza oven repair
    • Feeding the worms
    • Watering
    • Planting seedlings
    • Weeding
    • Turning the hot compost
As usual we will start from 9am, please enter the garden from the Kiama Sports Fields. Parking is in the Kiama Leisure Centre car park or in Thompson St near the end of Bong Bong St. Please wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes. Please bring a hat, gloves and a tasty treat to share for morning tea (a gold coin donation box available in lieu of bringing food). Hope to see you there.

Thursday, August 2, 2012


Dear Community Gardeners,

It has been lovely to see our garden membership grow, and with spring not too far away we look forward to that membership growth blooming in the improved seasonal conditions. You will see below one of our new recruits sharing his knowledge by running a workshop on the correct way to transport some of the gardens produce. Thank you Santi (and Pia).


We have been having some cool, but comfortable gardening weather lately. This Saturday 4th August we will be:

  • Organising our new shelves
  • Turning the hot compost
  • Making decisions about what seeds to plant both directly in the beds and in trays for seedlings and then planting them out.
  • Planting out some of our existing seedlings
  • Feeding the hungry worms (please bring vegie scraps if you can spare them)

A part of the early seed and seedling planting we will be trialling the idea of reusing old plastic bottles as little hot houses for the seedlings. We will keep you posted on this experiment.

From 9am, please enter the garden from the Kiama Sports Fields. Parking is in the Kiama Leisure Centre car park or in Thompson St near the end of Bong Bong St. Please wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes. Please bring a hat, gloves and a tasty treat to share for morning tea (a gold coin donation box available in lieu of bringing food). Hope to see you there.