Growing your own food

I grow herbs on my balcony, and have a metre square box on a tiny allotment where I try different stuff. Shallots currently but have grown spinach, chard, salad leaves and tomatoes.

We need more allotments for people to grow food. Plenty of empty glass office blocks we could turn into vertical allotments with soilless growing

I run a small estate based community growing project with about 12 other members. We have two small orchards, allotment spaces, recycled greenhouse, community growing area, fruit bushes and are now linking and supporting other estate based projects. It all started with years ago with some trees from the orchard project and a small grant from Capital Growth. We also run corporate days to generate income for the garden with a local charity as a broker. It’s amazing what can be done but it’s hard work and all voluntary. However, made amazing when you can share a cake made with fresh rhubarb you picked that morning or even better a pink gin made with fruit from the garden. 

As they say - build it and they will come. Now we just need legislation to protect it from greedy developers crying ‘housing crisis’ and eyeing up our remaining green growing spaces.

Growing Grapes,  apples , plumb and berry trees, strawberries redcurrants black curants,  comfrey, lavender, thyme, potatoes, callaloo,spinach,  shard, thyme,rosemary,lemon balm, stuff for bees . Operating a permaculture system and growing veg in painted tyres. Would love help building a fire pit everything is there 

Peace 

Marlon B

Have a shared plot , but we could do with support. No organisation with the ones who control no democracy . Plots are allocated to friends nd no financial info given about the rent we pay . The local authority and staff complicit in this croniism.

They should get more support to schools to organise gardening clubs with a huge focus on growing your own. This way it will benefit the students and they can eat the food! 

I work in a school and there here is no support from management to get this sort of thing off the ground! :( 

I try to grow tomatoes and spinach at home - I have a small balcony area & sometimes use kitchen/bathroom window sills to keep pots on. So far the toms are more successful than the spinach! I also grow tomatoes & herbs in my mum's garden for her & my two sisters (all done in honour of my dad who used to 'do' our gardens for us).    

I like the idea of urban garden spaces where residents can work together growing & using/selling their produce.  Would encourage people to think with a 'more healthy' hat on & possibly take responsibility themselves to eat better.