Springwood Community Garden in Springwood, New South Wales | Community organisation

Springwood Community Garden

Locality: Springwood, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 8843 2545

Address: Turn at 168 Hawkesbury Rd. Continue for 600metres. 2777 Springwood, NSW, Australia

Website:

Likes: 970

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Community
• Community organisation

25.01.2022 You are warmly invited to Springwood Community Gardens Christmas Picnic - Saturday 14th Dec from 10.30am at the garden - next to St Columbas gates - 168 Hawkesbury Rd Springwood. Bring a plate to share :) All welcome!

22.01.2022 This is Manu (Emmanuella) who was a founding member and designed the Springwood Community Garden. Such an inspiring story.

21.01.2022 Our food forest is progressing well; we initially dug trenches following the contour line, heaping the soil on the lower side and filling the trenches with wood chip. The whole area has been aerated and we are now in the process of covering it with cardboard or newspaper and topping it with thick wood chip. There is still a very large area to be done which means we need lots of newspapers and LARGE pieces of cardboard. We cant use anything that has a shining or plastic co...ating or small bits of cardboard. A little while ago Serge got us a station wagon full of cardboard from the cycle shop in Springwood. Last Friday, Rose filled her little car with cardboard from Harvey Norman (between Harvey Norman and Bunnings in South Penrith. We have used nearly all of it and would appreciate it if others had time to get us some more. We would also appreciate all your old newspapers with the inside glossy bits removed. We have a student from Springwood High coming next Wednesday for a few weeks work experience. He is very keen on permaculture and even knew all about Hgelkultur which is another plan would like to implement. It would be really great if we had more cardboard and newspaper by then as he is very keen to help. Happy gardening See more

20.01.2022 Well done Manu and all the others that have put so much work into this fantastic idea

19.01.2022 Its time to pull out your clean, green thumbs and turn them black. The fine art of pruning indeterminate or vine tomatoes is actually very simple. The goal i...s to reduce the number of growing stems on the tomato so that it produces less fruit but puts all its energy into making them crackers. It also means you dont have a huge messy pile of tomatoes with insufficient air flow potentially leading to disease. Bush or determinate tomatoes dont require pruning. They tend to produce all their fruit in one or more flushes. Which makes them ideal for use in making sauces, pastes and bottling. Vine tomatoes produce smaller amounts over a long time period. Theyll keep growing until theres a frost or disease gets to them. They tend to be more intensely flavoured than bush tomatoes. Look closely at your tomato plant, choose which stem or stems you wish to keep and then start from the bottom and work your way up. Just ensure to NEVER prune above the top set/s of flowers. This will stunt your plant, as this is the growing stem. You will need to identify axial shoots, thats the soft growth in the apex between the tomato stem and the leaf stem (as per the photos). Using your thumbnail clip them off. If youve let them get ahead of you they may be quite thick and require a clean pair of secateurs to leave a tidy cut, and reduce the potential for disease. This process needs to be repeated weekly. You dont want to let the plant/s get too messy, otherwise its putting energy into growing heaps of stems and periodically youre tearing them all off again. If you dont like having black/greeny-yellow stained fingers you could always wear gloves, but wheres the fun in that? #seedfreaks #tomatotips #growingheirloomtomatoes #pruningtomatoes #tomatopruningtips

19.01.2022 This looks like a great Aussie idea

18.01.2022 THANK YOU BENDIGO BANK. Who gave us the money to build this fantastic new shed at a cost of just over $1000. It has made it is so much easier to find the tools required now that they are stored in an orderly and secure way. We began by building a frame and filling it with compacted sand and then laying second hand pavers to make a solid base for the shed. Then the fun began!!! We purchased a shed in kit form and it took quite an effort to work out how to put it all together. Fortunately we had a great team of guys (and the odd gal) who eventually got the job done.

17.01.2022 The garden is still doing well, thanks to our dripper system and our crops are covered with 50% shade cloth. This is our harvest at last Wednesdays working bee

17.01.2022 Moochy Kids Family Day Care have donated and planted two Bush Tucker plants in the garden for NAIDOC week. Thanks very much Mark and Michelle

16.01.2022 Costas home-made compost sieve had a lot of attention this week! And youll find instructions on our website here: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s4561569.htm

16.01.2022 Newsletter June 2020 Covid19 changed how we worked at the garden for a few months. We made up a roster so that no more than two people were working at any time. Many of our members found the garden provided a safe place for us to get out of the house and feel very blessed to have had this option available to us. Our monthly planning meetings were put on hold but have now resumed, taking place out in the open around our yarning circle. The sandstone blocks provide just the ...Continue reading

16.01.2022 We are hoping to make wicking beds out of our baths...this article shows how its done

14.01.2022 Michelle and Mark from Moochy Kids Daycare brought the kids to the garden for a birthday party. It was lovely to see the little ones enjoying our old-fashioned play equipment. Logs to balance and climb on, the sand pit to play in and lots of space to run around. Enid gave our scarecrow a revamp after the strong winds blew her about and mucked up her hair

13.01.2022 A huge thank you to Carl Johnston who delivered a truck load of sawdust which we are spreading on the paths in our food forest

12.01.2022 Beautiful weather for our crop swap held at the Springwood Community Garden on the 3rd Saturday of the month. We have decided to make the start time for swapping 10am in future to give us more time to set up. Please share to let more people know about it

12.01.2022 Serge and Don worked really hard on the yarning circle yesterday and Rose finished off the wood chip this morning. Looking good especially since it didnt cost anything; except for the sandstone blocks, everything else was donated.

12.01.2022 Good to have them back in time for spring

11.01.2022 Thanks very much Carl Johnston for providing sawdust to the Springwood Community Garden. We have been using it around our play area and to make paths through o...ur food forest. We have extended our arbour to give some summer shade to the sandpit when the kiwi fruit grow a bit more. Carl Johnston is a local arborist and has his own portable sawmill. See more

10.01.2022 Bring your kitchen scraps (no meat or dairy) to the Springwood Community Garden where we have 3 compost bins supplied by Blue Mountains City Council

10.01.2022 Serge, Don and Mike turning the compost at Springwood Community Garden. This is a really good batch, if you look closely you can see the steam coming off it. We also use mushroom compost and have had heaps of mushrooms coming up following all that lovely rain

07.01.2022 Springwood Community Garden News Letter Summer 2020 It has been a difficult and challenging hot dry summer for gardening. Thank goodness for this wonderful rain which will make it much easier to grow our autumn crops. Many thanks to Ashley who has taken on the propagation of our seedlings and Richard who always gives us good advice about what, when and how to plant. Some of our crops struggled in the heat but others have done very well, we had a bumper crop of huge onions ...Continue reading

07.01.2022 This looks like a great idea

06.01.2022 Costa's home-made compost sieve had a lot of attention this week! And you'll find instructions on our website here: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s4561569.htm

06.01.2022 We have given St Thomas Aquinas two garden beds to use and the children will be visiting regularly. Richard is showing them how to plant seeds. He chose radishes, beans and rocket because they are up and ready to harvest quickly

05.01.2022 A huge thank you to the "Edible Garden Trail" for the grant we received. We have completed the extension to our arbour to provide shade for the sand pit. Also planted more fruit trees and bush tucker in our food forest.

05.01.2022 We had snake sightings at the garden last summer, so it's good to know exactly what to do in case someone gets bitten.

04.01.2022 Thank you very much BUNNINGS VALLEY HEIGHTS for giving us the irrigation supplies we needed to put drippers around our trees. Picture of Rose receiving all the goodies from Sonja.

04.01.2022 A very useful video about different ways to compost

03.01.2022 We are making good progress with our food forest and have mapped out the paths which we were thinking of topping with sawdust so they looked different from the wood chip. Does anyone know where we can get sawdust from or any other suggestions?

03.01.2022 Spring is such a wonderful time and Springwood Community Garden is looking good. We meet there every Wednesday and Saturday morning from 9.30am and you are very welcome to visit us, have a look around the garden a join us for a cuppa (usually around 10.45am)

03.01.2022 We sat around the developing learning circle for morning tea at our last working bee on Wednesday, so as to adhere to social distancing rules. Sadly this will be the last time for a while now that public gatherings have been restricted to two people.

03.01.2022 Thanks so much Beth, for recording the Springwood Community Garden, especially our newly developing food forest and bush tucker garden. It will be great to be able to look back in years to come and see how much is has grown. Click on link to see video

02.01.2022 Very useful info in this article.

02.01.2022 CROP SWAP Sat 16th Nov at 10am Springwood Community Garden. Swap anything home grown or home madeCROP SWAP Sat 16th Nov at 10am Springwood Community Garden. Swap anything home grown or home made

02.01.2022 WE ARE BACK..........PICK YOUR OWN IS OPEN FROM 23RD NOVEMBER Our picking season is commencing on Saturday 23rd November. From this day we will be open every w...eekend and public holiday from 10am to 4pm. Our picking season will go through till about the end of May 2020. The picking season will be PEACH PICKING from 23rd November until end of January 2020. APPLE PICKING from end of January till end of May 2020. Available for picking in the next few weeks will also be assorted lettuce, zucchini, chillies, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, fennel, spinach, capsicum and much more. Entry fee is $5.00 for adults and $3 for children between 3 and 15 years of age, children under 3 are free to enter. Peaches are $6.00/kg and you must pay for whatever you pick. Please bring your own carry bags with you. Please like and share this update to make sure your family and friends also see this. Bookings are not necessary you can just turn up.Whilst you are here at the farm, make sure you visit our shop on the premises and pick up one of delicious and famous apple pies. Looking forward to seeing all my regular customers and meeting all our new ones.

02.01.2022 Good to keep in mind for our stone fruit trees

01.01.2022 Would anyone like these pots? They were dumped at the garden and we do not want them. Please do not leave anything at the garden without ensuring it is wanted. It cost us $98 dollars in tip fees recently, getting rid of junk that had been left