Over 150 visitors came to our National Garden Scheme (NGS) Open Garden day to enjoy our spring bulbs and blossom, and tea and cake. We raised over £1,000 for NGS charities.

Our new vegetable beds are flourishing, following completion of the project funded by our NGS Community Garden Grant to repair the terracing. The Earthlings are preparing the beds, planting and watering. They have planted red and white onions, shallots, broad beans, purple kale, cavolo nero, rainbow chard, leeks, spring onions, beetroot, carrots, artichoke.

We have completed the project to construct our new vegetable terracing using reclaimed oak wood railway sleepers, funded with the our NGS Community Garden Grant. Volunteers filled the veg beds with the appropriate mix of re-purposed earth and leaf compost, together with manure from Freightliners Farm – all ready for veg planting by the Olden Garden Earthlings.

Everyone welcome at Olden Garden – come and enjoy spring flowers and blossom, and tea and cake, during our NGS Open Gardens Day on Sunday 6th April, 2pm-5pm

Spring blossom over our new Raised Vegetable Beds – constructed with wooden sleepers purchased with our grant from NGS Community Garden Grants

Our new Olden Garden Earthlings group is making great progress with veg growing in our new raised veg beds funded with help from the NGS Community Garden Grant

Come and visit – see our spring bulbs and blossom. Or join in with gardening activities to help maintain our special green oasis in the city.

Another 30 wooden sleepers delivered, to complete the terracing repairs project and remedy the landslip caused by disintegration of the old sleepers.

We are very pleased to have been awarded a grant of £5,000 towards Olden Community Garden core activities. This grant will help pay the fees of our part-time professional gardeners who lead our volunteers and advise our trustees. Islington Council’s Community Chest is funded by Islington Council, in partnership with Cripplegate Foundation.

Thank you to the BIG Alliance for arranging a gardening day for a team of 10 volunteers from MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group). With their enthusiasm we made good progress with our Raised Vegetable Beds Repairs project funded by a National Garden Scheme Community Garden Grant.