Community Garden round up
Round up of 2021 in the Community Garden 2021 has been a year of growth in every sense. We started with a glorious blank canvas of 22 composted beds, separated by woodchip paths, which had been marked out and filled the previous Autumn and Winter. These were gradually...
Community Garden, December Update
Community Garden, December Update There’s nothing growing above ground this month (though hopefully things are happening beneath). Bulbs are in, paths are re-chipped, dahlias are cut down, beds are mulched and tools are put away. Two excitements this month have been...
Community Garden Update November 2021
Community Garden Update November 2021 November has been a surprisingly rewarding month in the Community Garden. Having assumed that, once the regular picking was over, there was little of interest to do, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Once the garden was cleared of...
Ash Tree local update.
Ash die back in Mount Wood and elsewhere. The permitted path in Mount Wood over the river towards Chenies has a lot of small trees and a few big ones which have died. These are all ash and infected with ash die back. Ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) is a fungus...
Community Garden August Update
Community Garden August Update The summer of 2021 will not be fondly remembered as a time of long lazy days and warm balmy evenings. Instead, we have had seemingly ceaseless rain and cloud, and very little of the sunshine we all look forward to. The community garden...
Sarratt Wildlife Volunteers
Sarratt Wildlife Volunteers I may be tempting fate but we have been so lucky with the weather for our tasks this year.On Sunday May 9th we were again at Penmans Green, having another go at rooting out the scrubby brambles, and we worked mainly in warm sunshine. There...
New Bees on the block in Sarratt, just in the nick of time for World Bee Day – 20th May!
Sunday the 16th of May, a call came from Chesham to Flo and Sue in Sarratt that a swarm of Bees could hopefully be moved into the new Sarratt Community garden behind the Sarratt store, where a recently fabulous new residence has been put in place ready for some new...
Community Garden April
Community Garden April Update It has been an unusual April – glorious sunshine on one hand, but desperate dryness and frost on the other – difficult conditions for growers! The Community garden has largely shrugged off these challenges and is showing an...
Hedgehog Awareness Week
Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 2nd – 8th May this year and it aims to raise the profile of the Britain’s only spiny mammal. This year the Charity is asking people create their very own hedgehog haven! Gardens are a stronghold for hedgehogs, and we can make their...
Spring has sprung and the Bees are out!
Meet The Creator: Bartek Wojcik, Gardener and Beekeeper Bartek Wojcik is part of our Gardens team here at The Grove but has found his passion in taking care of our very own beehives. We caught up with him about what his job entails ahead of the summer and...