Sumac Garden with Spring's Progress

Published: May 03, 2013 07:58 by A little upset

Shame to see the decline in the Sumac garden, when I lived in Nottingham and was a regular visitor at the Sumac the garden was always one of the high points.

Is there a lack of volunteers ?

Published: May 03, 2013 09:44 by grateful

I'm really grateful to the people who spend their time making it so nice. I see an inevitable rise and fall with the seasons, not a decline. The only reason the wooden troughs have been broken up is that someone (naming no names!) keeps bashing a trailer into them by accident.

Published: May 03, 2013 15:24 by johnny

looks better than usual trust me I used to clean the yard& garden out for years. Try nailing some old tyres like they do to ship port walls.
You can cut the the steel belting with a machete or bill hook hit by a plank, angle grinders& saws can break dangerously, though blunt metal electric saws don't get thrown by the steel wire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt-Me4DQQAc
Not a great idea to grow food in old plant tyres though they break down& leach toxins like zinc, carcinogenic PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), unless theres something safe to line them with?

Published: May 03, 2013 17:17 by generate mutate

Nice video, showing a bit of caveman co-operation - not where they got the tires from in though ; -)

Is cardboard suitable for lining tires, or can the toxins leech through?

Published: May 03, 2013 21:53 by Fred

There is nowhere near as much care and attention applied to the garden this year. Some of us have been out there with a trowel, but there has not been much interest from others. Why the blazes are the wooden troughs broken [tash leaves this out] and why doesn't someone just fix them?? Look at his earlier pictures of the garden. As he says, Verdant!

Published: May 04, 2013 04:33 by Johnny

even many biodegrable layers of shopping bags from coop wont work to stop leaching into soil& then roots, unless you planted something with vshallow roots, cardboard lol.
I can drop off some 2 or3 cut tyres to stop more trailer bashing though.

Published: May 04, 2013 04:38 by rick

sort it out then fred,
ps photos can be deceptive, but verdant is a good sign according to the dictionary

Published: May 04, 2013 08:37 by Fred

Perhaps someone more local could sort it out. Rather a long way to travel from Scotland, to fix planting beds when someone more local, should be doing it. Looking at tash earlier photographs, it does look like a lot that was being done. now isn't!

Published: December 13, 2013 21:47 by GHGnet

Garden events, along with other topics such as local farmers markets operations are always in need of some free PR.

Try Green Home and Garden to get the word out.

http://greenhomeandgarden.net/

Thanks