Wadham's Volunteer Gardening Groups continue their work

Head Gardener, David, and team, along with our student and staff volunteers are seeing the benefits of their hard work since Hilary term, when we began our gardening sessions. The raised beds they made in previous weeks are full of black chick peas, lettuces, cabbages, sweet peas, onions, sweetcorn, pumpkins and parsnips. The mint is doing exceptionally well. We'll be putting sweet chard and tomatoes in soon.

As well as helping the gardeners to make raised beds and turn compost, our volunteers learned what can and cannot be composted in a college setting. This term, they will be sowing seeds; dividing perennials; making hotels for insects; and pruning in the grounds. Time will be spent on bird, insect and plant spotting to record species in the gardens. The groups will learn about organic gardening principles – non-chemical pest control, companion planting, encouraging beneficial insects; supporting early pollinators; and lawn edging and care and sustainable watering. We look forward to seeing what they achieve and hearing about what they have learned.