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The garden has literally exploded with growth in the past month with the warm, wet weather providing perfect growing conditions. Our potatoes and tomatoes are, luckily, under the cover of the polytunnel and should therefore be insulated from the risk of blight which accompanies wet and warm summer weather. We will soon be starting to build another raised bed to be filled with oriental greens such as pak-choi which will provide a good source of greens as the weather eventually begins to get colder.

Are you aged between 16 and 25 or 50 years of age and over?
Interested in learning plumbing skills within a day?
Living in North or east Manchester?

IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED YES TO THESE THREE QUESTIONS, THEN THIS TASTER DAY MAY BE FOR YOU?

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We will be holding a number of taster days in local venues.
The time will be filled learning how to repair a burst water pipe and building a functional gravity fed system.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERD FOR A PLACE ON THIS UNIQUE
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Friday the 16th of July saw the first free gardening session at Edge Lane Allotments.
The session was provided by Debdale Echo Centre who delivered a very friendly and useful session.
We all learned something,new, which is what its all about, we learned how to protect our soil with green manures and how to keep the plot productive over the winter period.

There were lots of interesting questions asked and some good banter during the session.
I hope the next session will be as good.

The next session will be on Friday the 13th of August 10 am till 12
Mulching and Water Management.

Free Gardening Course At Edge Lane Allotments, starting on Friday 16th July 2010 10am till 12pm.
The course will be run by the Dedale Eco Centre Team, so I'm sure It will be full of usefull gardening tips.

The first session will cover Planning the Winter Plot for all those gardeners who think veg only grows in the summer.

The second session will be on Friday 13th August 2010 10am till 12pm this session will cover Harvesting: Storing: Preserving and seed saving.

The third session will be on Friday the 17th of September 2010. This session will cover Mulching & Water management,

As part of ‘Zero Waste Week’, thirteen schools from across the Manchester local authority have been working hard to slim their school bins for the past few weeks. This competition is the first of its kind in Manchester and was organised by environmental charity EMERGE 3Rs to encourage schools to combat their waste. As the challenge is nearly over, it is time to identify the school that has reduced its waste the most, and to congratulate the schools, staff and pupils who have taken part in this Manchester-wide rubbish diet.

The Government Office for the North West is doing a give and gain day at Ashbury Meadow Primary School, Rylance Street M11 3NA, on 09 July 2010.

The Government Office for the North West have been asked by the school if they would develop a vegetable patches on their unused land to give the children an opportunity to grow their own vegetables for their cooking club.

With the weather being so lovely I popped down to the learning garden to take a few summery snaps. Most of the beds that we have built are now full and we will be building more this weekend at the Gardening club which will be on this Saturday 10 - 1 here at New Smithfield Market if anyone fancies having a dig, hopefully the weather will be nice and sunny still.

Ben
ben@emergemanchester.co.uk
0161 223 8200

The learning garden is coming on in leaps and bounds. We have plated out some leeks, salad, squash and courgette (with one courgette already flowering!) and have also eaten our first sweet peas. However, there is still lots of work to be done. This Saturday (26th June) we will be having another work day here at the learning garden. There are raised beds to construct and fill, doors to build for the polytunnel and lots of plants to put into our raised beds. We have chilli’s, aubergines, nasturtium, sweet corn, broad beans, French beans, pak choi and many more ready to go into the ground.

Dear All,

We would like to thank everyone who came along to the Question Time event on food and sustainability. Also, many thanks to everyone who helped us spreading the word about the event. We could not have done this without your help.
We hope you had a great evening and both the event and discussion lived up to your expectations.

We apologise again that only a small fraction of questions and topics submitted by the audience could be addressed by the panel, however we do hope you found the debate insightful.