Gardeners in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth are seeing results in the soil, in trying out new skills and having some fun together.As our fortnightly free Growing Tooting classes continue, have a look below at what we’ve been doing, and do get in touch to share ideas or with any queries. Very proud gardeners! Basil seedlings […]
Read More →The fourth weekend in our fortnightly series of workshops on growing your own local food was fun and successful. We’re half way through the run of 8 workshops at each of the sites. The Balham-Tooting-Wandsworth structure is stimulating as there are differences and common ground in the settings and interests – plus there’s healthy cross-pollination […]
Read More →The third weekend in our practical, sociable and free Growing Tooting workshops went well in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. A fourth ‘waiting list’ group starts on the 24th April in Wandsworth. Please scroll down this blog to see our earlier posts. At this stage of our classes, participants have seeds sown or seedlings coming through in their […]
Read More →All went well in the second weekend of our free workshops devoted to growing our own good local food – one class each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Details of the Growing Tooting programme here). What did we do last weekend? We compared everyone’s window-sill grown pea plants, 2 weeks after sowing. Different conditions (amount […]
Read More →On March 18th & 20th we started Growing Tooting by launching our new free series of 8 classes on learning to grow your own local city food by participating and sharing with others in your neighbourhood. That’s 8 classes in each of 3 locations in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. Many thanks to Martin for the tireless […]
Read More →Do you want to learn about local food growing and build up your practical gardening skills, where you live? Our FREE series of gardening and growing workshops starts on the weekend of March 18th and runs to the end of June This free fortnightly programme runs in three different locations in Tooting, Balham and Wandsworth – […]
Read More →Tooting has a new and delightful asset! A new garden balcony for all the staff at the Tooting campus of South Thames College opened today in memory of Mumney Olusanya (or Leo, as he was better known). Leo was Facilities Manager at the Tooting campus, and died on the 31st October 2013. Leo’s Garden […]
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