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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.

It’s going to be cold

Posted on January 12, 2012 by londonrdstationpartnership

Is it? Just as we had got used to cold winters again, it looks like January 2012 is going to be the second warmest since records began. The weather at London Road Station has been positively spring-like; the bulbs are coming … Continue reading →

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New year, new shoots

Posted on January 5, 2012 by londonrdstationpartnership

Happy New Year! The change of year was not white this year, but more typically wet and windy. Today the damp clouds have lifted but there’s an irritating high wind. I checked the gardens and the compost site – my … Continue reading →

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Dare to ask for hair

Posted on December 6, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

Ok, so if you’ve read some of the other posts, you’ll know this blog is a little obsessive about composting. You have been warned. The topic of this post is: human hair. I did a socially challenging thing today: I … Continue reading →

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Preston Circus planters need help

Posted on December 5, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

“Practise random kindness and selfless acts of beauty”. Can we rescue the planters at Preston Circus? Read on … and get involved! Preston Circus is one of Brighton’s busiest and most polluted cross-roads, a short walk from London Road Station. … Continue reading →

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A haul of garden sundries

Posted on December 1, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

Garden sundries? Perhaps the boring side of gardening, unless you see the parallel between growing things and cooking things, in which case garden sundries are the exciting things in your store cupboard, the array of esoteric ingredients which make things … Continue reading →

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Community bulbs

Posted on November 26, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

I can’t even remember when it started …  At the Ditchling Rise Area Street Party in September, Jo from Shaftesbury Road and I were discussing how good the cut-price onion sets from Lidl had been, and Jo said they now had packs … Continue reading →

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Passionate about … compost?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

When was it that ‘passionate about’ become such a marketing cliché? A few years back, I groaned when the umpteenth candidate for a lecturing job told the board they were ‘passionate about teaching’. Yet here it is: I can’t help … Continue reading →

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LRSP gets composting

Posted on November 3, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

We’ve just set up our small-scale community composting initiative at London Road Station, thanks to two donated bins. Brighton & Hove Food Partnership kindly donated a wooden one, and Madeleine brought a large plastic one down from her allotment. The area should … Continue reading →

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Our harvest supper

Posted on November 1, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

It wasn’t a fantastically productive growing year for us, but TA TAH … it was successful. Last week, we celebrated! Back in May we started to transform a 12 square metre plot of waste land – covered in weeds, rubble, empty bottles, cans and … Continue reading →

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The water butt mystery …

Posted on October 17, 2011 by londonrdstationpartnership

What’s happening? The water butt in our shady garden is a mystery. We installed it in July this year. Even after a solid downpour, it appeared to be empty after a few days. We checked for leaks but found none. … Continue reading →

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