SLCG is a nonprofit community-based, membership-funded organisation that manages a community garden in Lex Ord Park South, near the St Lucia Golf Links. This blog chronicles the ups and downs, joys and frustrations of growing food and flowers as a local community group in a public park…
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Busy month. . .
As part of getting ready for the completion of the Second or Lower Terrace (which is now scheduled for the first part of March, 2023, we have had to move plants and the Garden Shed. Which doesn’t sound like a huge task, but it did take a dozen or more members and volunteers, a whole heap of grunting and lifting and a lot of planning and site preparation. However, everything went well, and the new Shed is in place at the end of the Upper Terrace, and a bunch of pineapples, several native grass hummocks, a blueberry and some lemon grass clumps are all either in or on their way to new homes. Remarkably, the Shed was emptied, lifted, relocated, straightened, restocked and operational within four hours. And it didn’t rain…
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What weed is that?
This very useful quick guide to ways to recognise, identify, and deal with some of the most common or troublesome weeds found in Brisbane is excerpted from the BCC Habitat Brisbane group’s February 2023 newsletter: Getting to know your weeds If you’re new to bushcare then the prospect of trying to tell the ‘desirable’ plants…
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Containing the containers
Our weekly collections of containers to recycle was getting both out of hand and insecure, so we have now acquired (using the proceeds of the collections) a secure, locked, stainless steel cage to hold them in for a day or two until they can be recycled. Taking us from this: To this:
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Come in Spinner
The Indooroopilly Mens’ Shed are currently constructing for us what is known as a “compost spinner”. It’s a clever combination of a wooden frame, a barrel formed around old bicycle wheels using wire mesh and another bike wheel to allow it to be easily spun. The idea is to sieve off any larger or lumpier…
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Overdue but excellent news
Our Second or “Lower” terrace has been part-finished for some 18 months, while we pestered Walter Taylor Ward and BCC Parks to complete what they built back in 2020. What proved particularly frustrating was that no other grant source would permit their funds to be spent on an existing but incomplete project (even BCC’s own…
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SLCG’s new Indigenous Garden project
Welcome to the St Lucia Community Garden’s new Indigenous Garden project, “New Shoots From Old Roots”. See the project page to browse the thirty or so species we are already growing (or preparing to grow), and information about their importance to indigenous culture as food, medicinal or ceremonial plants. When you are at the Garden…
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Learnings and resources…
We are just a couple of days away from going live with the St Lucia Community Garden’s latest project “New Shoots from Old Roots”, our Indigenous Garden and matching website, between them reflecting the original and historical native plants and traditional uses of the creek, links and park our Community Garden now shares.https://stluciacommunitygarden.org/new-shoots/ has more…
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SLCG Annual General Meeting, Sunday July 18 2022, 3pm
After a one week postponement due to the unexpected unavailability of our Treasurer on the first proposed date, the SLCG Inc held its first regular meeting on 18 July, as prescribed by our Rules. All current SLCG Members were invited to attend, or to submit proxies via the Secretary, and several parties who expressed interest…
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Hello again…
It’s been a long time between posts on here, but our Facebook Group, our regular Working Bees (currently the first Sunday of each month at 15:00) and our emails to Garden Members have bridged the gap, I hope. A message via this blog, or to stluciacommunitygarden@gmail.com will always get to one or other of the Officers of the…
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Better weather, better Garden
After losing multiple plantings to the very wet winter this year, July and August’s better days let some hardy survivors recover, some plantings happy to have wet feet almost all the time thrive, and some new introductions say hello to the sun. Herbs like rosemary, parsley, mint, dill, lemon verbena, sage, thyme and chervil made…
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A very local plants and gardening Fair for Christmas
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