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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.

Volunteer in a Brighton community garden

Just got this lovely video from Jo at Brighton & Hove Food Partnership about volunteering in local community gardens. Our garden is featured towards the end (remember? Jo came round to film last summer). Take a look! And if you … Continue reading

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Brightening up the shady garden

Last Tuesday, we ventured out into the London Road station gardens for the first work session of this year. Two of us cleared weeds and straggly plants from the raised beds in the edible growing area and dug over the soil. It’s … Continue reading

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Planning for 2015 – after the AGM

It’s that time of year. We’ve moved on from Christmas, but it’s still dark and wet. Never mind – a good time for meeting and looking forward. We’ve just had our Annual General Meeting: our report and accounts can be … Continue reading

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Sunday on The Greenway

This Sunday, the sky was blue, the sun was shining: no rain, and mercifully, no wind. Still cold is easier to deal with. Walking along The Greenway from north to south, we noticed that the graffiti on the walls had been … Continue reading

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The Greenway – your help needed

It seems not many people know The Greenway. True – there’s not much to indicate its presence. It’s a lovely pedestrian pathway into the centre of Brighton. You can access it from New England Road. Just after passing under the … Continue reading

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The Happy New Year ahead – some dates

  My last post of 2014 in early November and my first post of 2015 bear an almost identical photo. Our miraculous foxglove is still flowering on the south platform at the Brighton end … It’s not been a bad … Continue reading

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Winter platform planting

We’ve just replanted the platform planters at London Road station for the winter with shade-tolerant plants: cyclamen, ivy and hebe. In the summer, the planters were slow to get going. Was it the very thick claggy compost we used, supposed to … Continue reading

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Clearing up The Greenway

It wasn’t the most inspiring day to be out clearing brambles and buddleia. The early morning forecast indicated heavy rain and even hail. Several of us wondered whether the planned ‘clear-up’ of The Greenway would go ahead. But despite the rain, … Continue reading

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Harvest supper 2014

Last night, we celebrated our fourthharvest supper. It was a very, very wet night. It had been raining all day. The station garden was drenched and sodden like a sponge when I went over to collect lettuce and the last … Continue reading

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Celebrating the mosaic – the tea party

Watch the video It’s over a month ago now, but what a fantastic event it was. To celebrate the completion of the underpass mosaic, the ‘A-team’ National Citizen Service volunteers and members of LRSP organised a tea party at London … Continue reading

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