Monday 31 May '10
(from Lawson Park Blog)

Learning how

We had to look up how to trench celery in the classic 'The Vegetable Garden Displayed"....

Originally posted at www.lawsonpark.org/blog/3786/learning-how on 31/05/10 at 10:58 0 Comments

Monday 31 May '10
(from Lawson Park Blog)

The Gardens at the end of May

Originally posted at www.lawsonpark.org/blog/3785/the-gardens-at-the-end-of-may on 31/05/10 at 10:54 0 Comments

Saturday 22 May '10
(from Lawson Park Blog)

My other garden's a bit smaller, but better for the shops....

Meconopsis betonicifolia having a go in East London

A quick plug for What will the harvest be?, which is a gorgeous public garden in East London that I designed with Nina Pope and it's now in its second season as a communal 'harvest garden'. A horticultural and social experiment, it allows anyone to come and grow and harvest food and flowers for free and is open dawn to dusk.

We open the garden for London Open Squares weekend on June 12/13th, 10-5pm both days, teas etc are available and we will be giving guided tours all day long, so do please come along.
The address is Baker's Row, London E15 3NF a- a 10 minute walk from West Ham or Stratford train / tubes.

I'm very proud of this project as I've been able to apply so many of the lessons I learnt up here at Lawson Park, and we have even succeeded in growing the rare blue Himalayan poppy there, from seeds harvested from my plants up here.

Originally posted at www.lawsonpark.org/blog/3775/my-other-garden-s-a-bit-smaller-but-better-for-the-shops.... on 22/05/10 at 22:07 0 Comments

Saturday 22 May '10
(from Grizedale Arts Blog)

Manager post @ Florence Centre, Egremont

A great job has come up, originating in our 'Creative Egremont' project a few years back - managing the new arts programme at the Florence Centre in the former mining buildings of Egremont.

See job details here - deadline Friday 11th June

Posted by Karen Guthrie on 22/05/10 at 19:24 0 Comments

Topics: 'Egremont' 'Egremont'

Saturday 22 May '10
(from Lawson Park Blog)

Slow down please

Bog garden 2010: Rodgersia in foreground, Adam's timber deer-guard in background

Due to the long, long winter, spring came late here and the last daffodils have only just gone over mid-May. Looking at pictures of the garden this time a few years ago, it was much greener and fuller.

But given our slender means, we are happy for summer to slide in slowly as we spend 5-8.30pm most days now on the land, weeding, sowing, dividing and planting. The legend that is Mr James Herd has been back rerouting the front Farmhouse Garden pathways and retaining walls, creating a rather more formal and rather more massive border than before - about 100 sq metres - almost all filled with propagated plants from existing stock. I'm trying very hard to minimise maintenance all over the garden, using more shrubs where I can and mulching like it's going out of style, using old chipped wood (almost free but ugly) and spent mushroom compost (good looks don't come cheap). A short-term Japanese intern, Mi, has gamely saved the day by planting the orchard hedge with the already in leaf hawthorn James donated to us - it seemed a terrible shame not to get a season ahead with the plan but the scale of the challenge had beaten me and I had resigned myself to postponing it. As long as we water the plants well we can hope it will thrive.

Vegetables begun in the polytunnel and now planted out include pak choi (about to bolt due to too long in the trays I fear), broad beans 'The Sutton Dwarf' (no staking apparently), and spinach 'Bordeaux'. Verdant Leaf beet 'Oriol' has been extraordinarily hardy, the only vegetable to survive the winter's snow and hard, hard frost and still going strong. French shallots (first in in March) are doing well and spring onions and Chinese radish are both showing now.

Originally posted at www.lawsonpark.org/blog/3774/slow-down-please on 22/05/10 at 00:09 0 Comments

Friday 14 May '10
(from Grizedale Arts Blog)

Out of the Furness and into the Hothouse

An open evening of creative experiment - like a salon thing, you know, hang around, chat, laugh at people.

Come along, take part. If you would like to present your work or do something interesting

call Andrew Deakin on 01229 581127

Monday 17 May 7.30 - 10.30 pm

Lanternhouse The Ellers, Ulverston

Free, Free, Free

Already definitely happening - more to come

Live experimental sounds by the Octopus collective and a Gramaphone performance by Naomi Kashiwagi

'One Word for Ulverson' - pottery workshop with Adam Sutherland

Films by Damon Packard, Olivia Plender and Ken Russell, Marcus Coates, Jordan Baseman,

Olaf Breuning and Nathaniel Mellors presented by raconteur Alistair Hudson

Bumper stickers, sun strips and decals workshop with Maria Benjamin - something you want to say

about politics, love or religion in coloured vinyl on your car, make it here and now

'Picturesque Pleasantry to Environmental Fury' a lecture by Howard Hull, Director of Brantwood

'Filthy Foreign Food' by Karen Guthrie

Drinks by Lanternhouse

Posted by Maria Benjamin on 14/05/10 at 08:38 0 Comments

Saturday 8 May '10
(from Grizedale Arts Blog)

Picken on my Chicken

One of the hens is taking a battering, she used to be the Queen, then she went broody and now she's looking to be on the way out. I've moved her to the fruit cage but will I ever to able to reintroduce her. Check out the funky R&B soundfile for good advice. I find 60's soul has the answer for most major problems.

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 08/05/10 at 11:45 0 Comments

Topics: 'Chickens' 'funk' 'Larry Birdsong' 'Chickens' 'funk' 'Larry Birdsong'