Our Street Eats January Newsletter

All the fruit trees and soft fruit bushes are now ordered and will be delivered when the snow finally melts.

Each school is getting:

• 2 eating apple trees (Cox's Orange Pippin and Worcester Pearmain)
• 2 cooking apple trees  (Bramley's Seedling and Annie Elizabeth)
• 2 plum trees (Victoria and Marjorie's Seedling)
• 2 pear trees (Conference and Beurre Hardy)
• 1 cherry tree (English Morrello)
• 1 medlar tree (Nottingham)

They are also getting:

• 1 yellow gooseberry bush
• 1 red gooseberry bush
• 1 green gooseberry bush
• 10 raspberry canes
• 1 loganberry plant
• 10 strawberry plants
• 1 blackcurrant bush
• 1 redcurrant bush

Blackmoors fruit handbook

a very useful handbook from the people we are buying our fruit from.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our growers out there!!

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!

In the next few weeks we'll be making the lists of fruit plants and trees we'll need for spring planting and getting them ordered for eventual delivery sometime in late Jan/early Feb. 

So if there is anyone who is on our lists who wants anything in particular let us know soon and we can get it ordered!

Plans are also underway for the big spring plant that is going to to start in mid February, keep an eye out for our future posts.

We hope to be back out door knocking in our existing streets (and possibly some new ones) early in the new year in the hope of signing more people up for the project.

mushroom kits

We have been delivering mushroom kits to all our school during the past couple of weeks, however here in the office we didn't want to feel left out (and we had to check that the kits were working!) so we've been growing a box ourselves.

We decided on the mushroom kits due to the fact that during winter the schools gardening clubs have little to do, plus the mushrooms are growing on used coffee grounds and chopped up old cardboard so its eco-friendly!

Starting the box off on the Friday

Bit of a surprise on Monday when we came in.

By the Friday (1 week later) it was ready for harvest!

Raised beds for Mill Lane Primary, Stockton

The final three raised beds have gone in at Mill Lane Primary, one went in on Friday and was planted up with onions, garlic and winter peas by the year six students. the final two have been put in today ready for planting after the half term holiday.

Part filled beds

Almost filled beds

Growing Guide and Vegetable Planting Calender

Here at groundwork North east we have been working on a downloadable Growing Guide and vegetable planting calender we hope that you find them useful.

If you have any advice or tips that you would like us to add to these documents please E-mail us and we will add anything useful to them.