Selfsufficientish.com

I came across this link on another forum and thought it might be of interest to people on here too. Some interesting pictures.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/ho ... me=2525420


Pete

Great find Pete

Thanks

Bombs seem like a fun way to dig the garden

By a strange coincidence I next came across this-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -says.html


Pete

When I was really young we lived in a third floor flat in the centre of London. At that time there were still some old bomb sites that hadn't been redeveloped (although some of them had more to do with the IRA than the Nazis). One day I was walking down Conduit Court in Covent Garden with my parents and they noticed a sign on a wooden fence. Behind the fence was a bomb site which had been converted into a garden. The sign stated that the garden was available for people to use but they had to apply for a key to the gate. They were looking for someone to take care of the garden. My dad applied and became the gardener and we got a key.

We didn't really grow fruit or veg but we did have a bay tree. There was a pond with goldfish. The garden was at the basement level and was surrounded by high buildings so everything grew really tall. We moved out of London in the mid 70's and gave back our key. I returned to Conduit Court recently but 'our' garden is now a block of flats.

Zoe

I cut my teeth identifying plants in vacant lots and wasteland in London.

It is amazing the variety of plant life that will grow if left alone