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Gardening Jan 2010

For many of us this is the time of year for some ‘armchair gardening’ in terms of studying seed catalogues and trying to decide what to grow and where to grow it. It is also time to consider the things...

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Gardening – Feb 2010

Hopefully the weather has improved sufficient to allow our thoughts to turn to some outdoor activity but we still need to be wary and I quote from a 1938 Amateur Gardening Every Day Log Book. If...

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Gardening – March 2010

So many misties in March, So many frosties in May. A dry March and a dry May portend a wholesome summer if there be a showery April in between. When it thunders in March one may say ‘Alas’. March comes...

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Do your bit for Compost Week

Compost Awareness Week rounds off with a community fun day on Saturday, 7 May at Riverside Country Park, Gillingham. Anyone interested in reducing food waste and helping the environment is welcome to...

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Gardening – April 2010

This is the month of many tasks which will brook no delay, for growth now becomes so active that very soon it will be too late to transplant or to prune many kinds of plants without risk of injury....

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Gardening Page -June 2010

In many respects June is the most delightful month of the gardener’s year. The flowers of spring have gone, but in their place is a wealth of summer blossom. The lupins and the tall bearded irises are...

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COOMBE COTTAGE OPENS GARDEN

IN SUPPORT OF EllenorLions Hospices ON SUNDAY 12TH JUNE 2011 BETWEEN 2PM – 5PM Coombe Cottage, 5 Curates Walk, Wilmington, DA2 7BJ is a quintessentially English garden surrounding the original...

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Schools and Communities Together

Organic gardening and information technology lessons given by pupils are now on the curriculum at Rainham School for Girls. Produce from the garden will be given to senior citizens and low income...

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NEW GUIDEBOOK TO PENSHURST PLACE

Jubilee walk at Penshurst Place summer 2011c Maryann WebsterPenshurst Place and Gardens today launches a newly published guide book. Written in part by Lord and Lady De L’Isle, whose family home is...

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Revealing Secrets of the Commissioner’s Garden – Heritage Open Days 2013

Image credit: David FenwickThis year’s “Heritage Open Day” at The Historic Dockyard Chatham takes visitors into the relatively unexplored world of the Commissioner’s Garden and into the depths of Royal...

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HAVE YOUR SAY – Fill in the questionnaire

Over the last year Hoo Peninsula residents have been meeting with local farmers, environmentalists, businesses and planners to discuss what the Hoo Peninsula could be like as a place to live and work....

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Grow your own to help cut down on food bills

Families are being encouraged to take up the good life and take part in free workshops to learn how to grow their own food. Medway Grows workshops are being run across the area from March to July and...

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