Urban Seed Days

On Saturday August 16th & September 27th we held two URBAN SEED DAYS at Abbey Gardens encouraging folk to get involved with our project What Will The Harvest Be?

The idea was to gather or sow some seeds for next year's Harvest Garden and to talk more about our long term proposals for this unique historic site. Botanist Roy Vickery (of South London Botanical Institute) joined us for the first afternoon and led a great walk around the garden looking at wildflowers that have been imported, blown onto or deliberately planted on the site. Besides just identifying an amazing range of plants from Mugwort & Corn Cockle to tomatoes & Physalis (!) Roy was also able to reveal some fascinating folklore about the different plants. Karen then gave a master-class on seed propagation, with some hands on volunteers sewing seeds of plants to be used next year.

The second day was much more focussed on harvesting the thousands of wild flower seeds on site before they are all blown away!

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items are from between 16 Aug 2008 & 28 Sep 2008.