Bodmin Road Church, Bransholme, Kingston Upon Hull

After a Session turning over the entire garden we started to prepare a bed and take all teh grass and weeds out. We also took out around 30 old clothes pegs, a dozen marbles, 3 toy cars a whole host of stuff.  Look at treasure corner to see some of the things we foun.

The soils as everywhere in Hull is heavy clay but with a donation of a compost bin full of well rotted compost the first bed took shape well, with the help of 9 volunteers aged from 7 to 40 something. We will dig the next 2 beds and then start on some road side verge the other side of the fence....te heee.

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St Matthews Church Hall, Hull Youth For Christ, Boulevard, Kingston Upon Hull

It has taken a lot of very very hard work by a team of up to 10 people to get this place looking as it does now.  We had many dilemmas about what to do for growing space here.  The soil was so badly contaminated with broken glass, roof tiles, bitumen tar chunks and dozens of other more curious finds we feared we would have to replace all the top soil.

Some 50 man hours of work later, we are half way through sieving the entire top 6 inches of soil across the whole site.  During the process we have found 100 year old coins, an old car starter handle, a 1950s toy car, and many other treasures.  Please look at the post called 'Treasure Corner' to see some of the finds.

It turns out that once sieved, the soil is very good loam, if still with some tiny shards of glass, so we will do a finer grade sieve and add some beds with imported soil for root crops to be on the safe side.

We hope to be planting here in around 4 weeks time. Keep coming back to see.

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St John's Church and Community Centre, Rosemead Street, Kingston Upon Hull.

Work has now started at St Johns with a keen team of volunteers setting to work. Sadly we forgot our camera on the first day of digging so when we next pop in we promise a bumper crop of photos.

If you would like to help grow, or learn to grow here please get in touch.

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BODMIN ROAD CHURCH, Bransholme, Kingston upon Hull

This is the start of our next big growing push.  It may look small but acorns turn to oaks, and its only the beginning, We have plans to do gorrilla planting nearby too once we have a trained up team.

This is one of the volunteers unused back gardens round the corner from the church.
The next time you see this we will have dug this over and started to break the soil down and added some compost and manure all being well. If you go to Bodmin Road Church and want to join in get in touch with us or Marie or Tony in church and lets get growing together. Equally if you dont go to any church but want to join in let us know, everyone is welcome.

Bodmin Road Church will be the first place we offer some cooking sessions too shortly, so this is one exciting place to watch. If you or someone you know needs help with money issues we can help with those too so please get in touch with us and we can help meet your needs.

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St Mathews / Hull Youth For Christ, Boulevard.

After a few test digs and a few hard hours trying to clear the site by hand and electric saws and hedge trimmers we resorted to a 1.5 ton digger kindly hired to us for a smashing low price by Humberside Plant Hire.  This enabled us to clear the site in one afternoon, once we had learned how to use it, most of us had a go, but some were better than others...tee hee.  That's Anna at the controls, which made a scream noise each time she used them for some reason. Have a look below at what we did in an afternoon with 3 adults and a few young people, all of whom had to keep a close eye on that digger arm, it had a mind of its own....honest.

John Paul with one of the less exciting tools that day, bad luck son.

At the start of the day, work was slow as we tried to remember how to use all 11 levers !

by the end of the day, one pile of old rotten fence and wood, and one pile of brambles and weeds, oh and no fence anymore !

One clear site - looks good enough to eat out of right ? well you can't see in the pics but that's mostly rubble, broken glass, and grit, but with lots of sieving and care it will grow.

The one lovely tree on site, we really must identify that now its in leaf, a guess anyone ?

Next step is 2 skips, a community meeting to plan the site, and a lot of wheelbarrows, manure and sieving....if it sounds like your kind of fun please come and join in.

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ST STEPHEN'S NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, Greatfield, Kingston Upon Hull

Adrian is working with the ever lovely Sister Anna and Josie to do some growing within the church grounds, but also nearby we have one of our gorilla gardening plots. Please pop in and see the sisters or get in touch with us if you fancy some of the growing action here. We have already put some potatoes in (photos to follow) but have plans for much more.

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BODMIN ROAD CHURCH, Bransholme, Kingston Upon Hull

An amazing place full of people with big hearts, we had to work with Bodmin Road Church.  We will be doing our first cooking sessions here in a couple of months once the bulk of the growing activities have started, but we have a plan for some growing here to, but we are going to do it differently, using redundant back gardens.  We want to try and work in as many ways as possible and experiment with what works best in Hull, based on what has worked elsewhere. There is just a chance that something might happen on that grass there on the left in time too ;-)

If you live on Bransholme and want to join in or would love to volunteer here please let us know.

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