A Wizard, in a Nordic chariot, sped down from the North to visit the Hind Grove Community Garden. He carried with him a vast array of containers, strainers and a heavy box of honeycomb trays.... which smelled of wood and wax.

Children gathered.... word had spread fast that a Wizard was in town., and they helped to remove the wax, scraping away at the surface. After he had consulted the runes, and spun his spells, a liquid was seen to emerge. The children were amazed. Nobody had seen such magic performed before!

Each child took home a jar of PURE GOLD....

Lansbury Young Gardeners

Two silk screens...

Lansbury Gardeners AGM 2012.

Lansbury Gardeners AGM 2012 will take place on Thursday 1st November 2012. Formal notices will go out soon. The meeting will take place from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. We have chosen half term week.

Gardener sought.

Lansbury Gardeners are seeking a gardener to lead a two hour weekly session for children aged 8 to 12. The venue will be the Hind Grove Community Hall (Hind Grove near the junction with Stainsby Road, London E14).

The project will combine work with "Splash Arts" and Poplar HARCA to provide an "arts and gardening" programme that will last until Spring 2013 and possibly longer.

The session runs Tuesday afternoons from to 4:30pm to 6:30pm.

We are now in the Autumn, we wish to appointment a gardener up to half term and review the project for the winter months.

Please contact Gordon Joly for more details - telephone 020 7515 4964 or email info@lansburygardeners.org.uk

Pumpkin cutting

Pumpkin cutting, a photo by Marj Joly on Flickr.

The other large pumpkin weighing about 45kg was cut up and shared today.

As there is now little outside gardening to do, we have started to make our seed order list. We have a varied agenda each week - as the weather is not that good if you want to practise reading English and learn more about growing food at the same time come along and join us! We will have a variety of gardening books to look through over the winter months.

Sharing out the pumpkin

Pumpkin, a photo by LoopZilla on Flickr.

Yesterday we shared out two of the rather large atlantic giant pumpkins grown on my allotment with Lansbury Gardeners. The two pumpkins were shared out with at least 12 households, and we still have one more left!

Have just had roasted pumpkin soup made with part of our portion - very tasty. Probably make some curry with the rest.

Menteath House Garden

Menteath House Garden: after, a photo by Marj Joly on Flickr.

The garden is now pretty much finished in terms of the major build. The final three bags of bark went down this morning with help from Poplar HARCA who arrived just as I was starting to flag...

Ten households growing their own food in a small corner of east London next to their homes.