Setting up the Borrowed Garden

LRSP raspberry canes in the Borrowed Garden

I was down at St Peter’s Church this afternoon, helping set up a Borrowed Garden. To celebrate Big Dig Week, Harvest is creating a pop-up temporary garden here from plants ‘borrowed’ from community gardens around the city. The students from University of Brighton’s Edible Campus project were there too, creating wooden benches and planters. We loaned a pot of raspberry canes, some scented geraniums and some herbs.

The idea is to invite people into planted space, inspire them to get growing and to see whether growing- edible and ornamental – could work here. As always happens when people start gardening and creating something different in a public space, passers-by stopped to chat. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive.

Harvest are asking people to comment on Twitter @harvestbh  Go and take a look!