Queen’s Wood Organic Garden
Lucy Roots gives us quick tour of Queen’s Wood Organic Garden. Behind the Lodge building is an organic garden often overlooked by wood and café users. It is surrounded by trees but in spite of this has a tranquil quality with flowers, fruit and vegetables growing side by side and bees from the hives gathering pollen. The garden was started in 1998 when the derelict Lodge building was reclaimed and restored. It was the original garden for the Lodge Keeper, and so the soil had been well nurtured in the past, but had become overgrown with trees and shrubs. Now it is a thriving example of what can be achieved in a small space with apple and quince trees, red, black currant and gooseberry bushes interspersed with vegetable plots. Among these grow forget- me- knots and a variety of companion planting flowers to attract pollinators and pest predators. Around the edge the ivy, bluebells, teasels, wood avens, and herb robert create a woodland edge effect. The garden is maintained by volunteers who work there on Mondays and Thursdays, from 9am to 2pm. Leave your details at the Lodge café if you are interested in helping. Plant sales are held often at weekends or at special Plant Sale Open Days. The garden has also held workshops on recycling and compost making for school and other groups of children. A booklet on organic gardening is available from the Lodge café – price £1.50. Contact Lucy Roots at jlnew@blueyonder.co.uk for more details.
9 Responses to Queen’s Wood Organic Garden
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@jdaviescoates thank you.
VonLeachim
December 30, 2011 at 3:54 pm
@VonLeachim also be sure to check out my useful collection of beekeeping docs at
files . uniteddiversity . com / Beekeeping
jdaviescoates
December 30, 2011 at 4:51 pm
@jdaviescoates I may do just that, thank you, perhaps a local keeper can be found.
VonLeachim
December 30, 2011 at 5:08 pm
@lifearoundhome yeah, I must make the effort to start volunteering there again! 🙂
jdaviescoates
December 30, 2011 at 5:29 pm
@LuxLuma thanks for the thanks! 🙂
jdaviescoates
December 30, 2011 at 6:13 pm
@VonLeachim good question. I guess some do and some don’t. I’d recommend getting in touch with beestrawbridge.blogspot.com/
jdaviescoates
December 30, 2011 at 6:18 pm
always wondered with bees if the ‘organic’ keepers feed them sugar ..
VonLeachim
December 30, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I like this garden too. i’ve been there twice. a great place to stop by. beautiful woods great to walk dogs too, just a few hundred yards from Highgate Station. thank you for the video!
LuxLuma
December 30, 2011 at 7:56 pm
beautiful garden- green, green, green
lifearoundhome
December 30, 2011 at 8:43 pm