{"id":826,"date":"2012-11-06T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/?p=826"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:59:48","slug":"exciting-times-at-the-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2012\/11\/06\/exciting-times-at-the-community-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting times at the community garden!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a little bit of a roller coaster constructing the polytunnel for the community garden. We have battled digging through concrete, less than helpful weather and more than a few missing pieces. Last week, however, we managed to prep the frame ready for the polythene covering and despite the high winds and failing light we finally got the cover up and over the frame and secured!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Unfolding the polythene cover<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Up and over!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Securing the cover into place<\/p><\/div>\n

The polytunnel will allow us to extend the growing season and try new varieties of fruit and veg that are a little more sensitive to our British weather!<\/p>\n

All the volunteers who have worked on the polytunnel and who have helped keep the garden green while we have been building deserve a massive thank you and congratulations on their perseverance.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The final product - now we just need to put the doors on!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a little bit of a roller coaster constructing the polytunnel for the community garden. We have battled digging through concrete, less than helpful weather and more than a few missing pieces. Last week, however, we managed to prep the frame ready for the polythene covering and despite… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,331],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edible-garden","tag-community-garden","tag-volunteering"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2011\/09\/30\/community-food-garden-plans-afoot-at-avery-hill\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":0},"title":"Community Food Garden Plans Afoot at Avery Hill","author":"","date":"30 September 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today the Sustainability Team ventured up to the Mansion Site of Avery Hill to meet with Robert Holden and the Garden and Landscape Design staff at the School of Architecture and Construction. The topic under discussion was the plans for building a University community food garden. The project will be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Edible Garden"","block_context":{"text":"Edible Garden","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/category\/biodiversity\/edible-garden\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-IRbUCw-rJe0\/ToXprPk3mdI\/AAAAAAAAAQI\/3VU7rcyaYeM\/s320\/Gnome_plus_grapes1.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":367,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2012\/04\/23\/community-garden-at-avery-hill-campus\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":1},"title":"Community Garden at Avery Hill Campus","author":"","date":"23 April 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been an exciting past few weeks at the Avery Hill Campus as the community garden allotment has started to take shape. The garden now has eleven raised beds built, four of them filled with compost, a line of compost bins ready for our waste and a huge pile\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Edible Garden"","block_context":{"text":"Edible Garden","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/category\/biodiversity\/edible-garden\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/04\/Photo-19-03-2012-09-35-03.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/04\/Photo-19-03-2012-09-35-03.jpg 1x, \/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/04\/Photo-19-03-2012-09-35-03.jpg 1.5x, \/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/04\/Photo-19-03-2012-09-35-03.jpg 2x, \/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/04\/Photo-19-03-2012-09-35-03.jpg 3x, \/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/04\/Photo-19-03-2012-09-35-03.jpg 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2013\/01\/11\/forest-garden-plans\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":2},"title":"Forest Garden Plans","author":"","date":"11 January 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As the cold weather persists across London we are waiting for the sun and warmth before we get planting in the community garden again. Volunteers, members of the Sustainability Team and James Hallybone from Roundfield have been discussing what to do for when the\u00a0springtime\u00a0arrives. With the addition of a polytunnel\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Edible Garden"","block_context":{"text":"Edible Garden","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/category\/biodiversity\/edible-garden\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Forest garden Plans","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/01\/forestgarden1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/01\/forestgarden1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/01\/forestgarden1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/01\/forestgarden1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2011\/10\/28\/breaking-ground-at-our-community-garden-and-gearing-up-for-the-orchard-planting\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":3},"title":"Breaking Ground at our Community Garden and Gearing up for the Orchard Planting","author":"","date":"28 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today the Sustainability Team joined forces with the School of Architecture, James Hallybone and Tom Barnsley from Roundfield and Michael Unsworth from the Grounds team to break ground at the site for our new community garden. We haven\u2019t quite started to dig to plant yet but we have dug one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Edible Garden"","block_context":{"text":"Edible Garden","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/category\/biodiversity\/edible-garden\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-3vY2fVnMb_M\/TqrT2lQsaqI\/AAAAAAAAARk\/2rXNI-5AQeg\/s320\/photo%2B8.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1030,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2013\/06\/20\/chelsea-fringe-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":4},"title":"Chelsea Fringe 2013","author":"Simon Goldsmith","date":"20 June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The University of Greenwich held its first community event at the Avery Hill Community Garden as part of the Chelsea Fringe festival. Dragos Buharu, a 2nd year\u00a0Business\u00a0School student studying\u00a0BA Business with Marketing was in attendance and here he gives you his perspective of the day. Chelsea Fringe 2013 \u2013Even the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Community Engagement"","block_context":{"text":"Community Engagement","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/category\/partnerships-and-engagement\/community-engagement\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/06\/chelsea-fringe-logo-no-date.png","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/06\/chelsea-fringe-logo-no-date.png 1x, \/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/06\/chelsea-fringe-logo-no-date.png 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":564,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2012\/07\/17\/11th-july-garden-work-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":5},"title":"11th July Garden Work Day","author":"Simon Goldsmith","date":"17 July 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Wednesday's weather was a little undecided but gave us some time to do some work in the garden - in between shiny sunny spells and torrential showers of rain. The tasks of the day included weeding, harvesting and pruning: There were many vegetables to harvest as everything kept growing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Edible Garden"","block_context":{"text":"Edible Garden","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/category\/biodiversity\/edible-garden\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/07\/SA1_0064.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/07\/SA1_0064.jpg 1x, \/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/07\/SA1_0064.jpg 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}