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About londonrdstationpartnership

We are a small community gardening group at London Rd Station, Brighton - a group of neighbours getting together to grow things on disused land at the station, and enhance the area with plants. We are also a composting hub - and the compost gets used on the gardens.

Gardening in a gale, singing in the rain

Posted on March 17, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

  Big Dig Saturday March 16th at 11am was probably the maddest time to be out gardening. Icy rain, 33mph blustery winds, the garden paths turning to mud: but as Mary tweeted, ‘it’s not about poor weather, just poor choice … Continue reading →

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Big Dig Day Saturday 16 March

Posted on March 7, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

It’s Big Dig Day on Saturday 16th March. To celebrate the national campaign to get more people involved in community food growing, we’ll be open between 11am and 2.00pm. Click here for Brighton Big Dig flyer. More on Big Dig … Continue reading →

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At last – the season begins

Posted on March 3, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

At last, it looks like the gardening season can begin. It was around 8C this afternoon, though colder when I came in at 6pm. But no rain, no icy wind and no snow. We’re already the beginning of March and … Continue reading →

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The wider picture (video)

Posted on February 8, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

The London Road Station Partnership, Brighton, developed out of our local residents group, Ditchling Rise and Area Residents Association (DRARA). We still report back to DRARA meetings so that the neighbourhood more generally knows what we’re doing. Madeleine’s video, produced for DRARA’s … Continue reading →

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Planting plans for 2013

Posted on February 3, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

This page is dedicated to Daphne who loves raising seed and now has some extra south facing window sills. I’m pretty useless at it, and I’m an anxious germinator. I love the moment when you see minute disturbance in the … Continue reading →

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Pruning the mini-orchard

Posted on February 2, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

Bryn Thomas visited the garden to demonstrate winter pruning to LRSP members and the  group taking the Brighton Permaculture fruit growing course. Our six cordoned trees – four apples, two pears – have been pruned and the position of the … Continue reading →

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Fruit tree pruning Sat 2nd Feb 1.15pm

Posted on February 1, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

It’s time for winter pruning of fruit trees. Our cordons are growing well, but the leader stems are reverting to upright. While they are dormant, we’ll probably need to adjust them by attaching them to the diagonal canes. We’ll see … Continue reading →

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Waiting

Posted on January 26, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

We are waiting. Gardens in the winter are suspended, resting … It’s been wet, very wet since the beginning of December and we had strong winds. The New Year was wet again, and then last week, the snow came and … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on January 3, 2013 by londonrdstationpartnership

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. This blog got about 3,400 views in 2012. We’re delighted people have wanted to find out more about what we do. It would be lovely to have … Continue reading →

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Space for Growing Food

Posted on November 30, 2012 by londonrdstationpartnership

You can tell it’s winter. The layer of frost on my raised beds is a give-away sign, but more than that, I’m indoors. At a computer screen. Catching up on all those interesting documents I haven’t had time to read, … Continue reading →

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