Canbury Community Garden

A community gardening group
We are transforming a disused gardeners' yard on the edge of Canbury Gardens, Kingston, into a community space for wildlife-friendly food-growing

95 GoodGymers have supported Canbury Community Garden with 54 tasks.


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Kingston upon Thames runner
TaskForce
Dave White
Dave White
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Claire Dunne
Claire Dunne
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Tom Peacock
Tom Peacock

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Marcos Castro
Luke
Sabir Babaiy Majdar
Claire Dunne
Tom Peacock
Dave White

It's time to begin - now count it in (4) 5-6-7-8

Tuesday 25th August

Written by Claire Dunne

Tonight we were back at our old favourite Canbury Gardens and despite rain horizon there was still lots of watering to do both at GoodGym flowerbed and in the Community Garden.

Sabir, Luke, Dave, Tom and Jonathan filled bucket upon bucket with water and hauled them across the park to Louise, Hannah, Amy and Claire who watered all the plants.

Meanwhile Marcos was busy filling up the waterbutts from the water as it was delivered.

By the end we had a great system going and waterbutts 4,5,6,7 and 8 were filled up ready for watering by the Community Garden volunteers.

After picking a few tomatoes and beans it was time to head home.

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Sabir Babaiy Majdar

A mass of produce!

Saturday 22nd August

Written by Kingston upon Thames runner

This morning Sabir and myself were once again at the riverside to collect water to help the produce to accumulate. He enjoyed collecting his tomatoes.

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Backyard Good Hydro Gym

Saturday 25th July

Written by Kingston upon Thames runner

Duo GoodGamers Sabir and Marie-Noëlle joined the weekend gardener squad down at Canbury Community Garden.

In the 3-round main event, H2O heavyweight Sabir lugged water using a wheelbarrow, a water barrel, and a bucket to refill the garden's main reserve. It was an absolute knockout victory over dehydration!

Undefeated by the high temperature, Marie-Noëlle completed a staggering 18-round watering can marathon to refresh the sun-baked vegetable patch. 💦 tomatoes drenched
💦 courgettes submerged
💦 cucumbers flooded
💦 runner beans absolutely soaked
A successful backyard hydration mission!

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Marie Wills
Laura Bunce
Jonathan Seglow
Luke
Claire Dunne
Tom Peacock
Dave White

Water - logged 💦

Tuesday 14th July

Written by Claire Dunne

Tonight was all about watering as the heatwave continues to keep everyone and the plants hot and thirsty.

Having located the handle for the water carriers and extra buckets Dave, Luke, Claire and Jonathan headed to the river to fill every bucket, wheelbarrow and watering can in sight.

Wheelbarrows loaded with water were wheeled over to the GoodGym flowerbed for watering all the plants to keep it looking colourful and keep them going for a few more days.

Meanwhile the water carriers were taken to the community garden and emptied into the waterbutts. As fast as they were filled they were emptied for watering all the vegetables.

By the end it was a slick operation emptying the water carriers into buckets and into the waterbutts.

In between all of this Tom and Laura managed to give the compost heaps a good turn as well.

Let hope we get some rain before our next visit.

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Levita Figueiredo
Eleanor

Watering Canbury, One Barrel at a Time

Saturday 9th May

Written by Levita Figueiredo

At Canbury Gardens, Levita and Eleanor helped out by filling large water barrels with water from the river using wheelbarrows and water canisters. The water would later be used to water the plants and garden patches around the area. The activity also gave us a great workout for the day and definitely made us use our muscles while carrying and moving the water around. What a powerful way to start the weekend!

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Eleanor
Claire Dunne

Helping hands

Saturday 25th April

Written by Kingston upon Thames runner

This morning in the sunshine, we got through our jobs, working together and also with help offered by passers by.

We started off by Ellie and myself being the water gathering, while doing this we had offers off help by people passing by, 1 helping to collect water and another offer of help with the wheelbarrows where the containers were full. Whilist this was done we had left Claire to toss the compost heaps in the gardens. Then we all teemed up again to brake up soil and dig some compost into it, in 3 big planter boxes that has been donated by the council.

We left satisfied after doing a great task and engaging with 3 members of the community, with their offers of help, throwing in chat about goodgym . The only downside to today was to find out that Mr Fox had got away with a full belly of chickens. Hopefully they will acquire more.

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