Our Tiny Veg Growers Gardening Club meets every Wednesday at 5pm in Woodlands Community Garden, Talgarth – and everyone is welcome!

This week, we invited the children to come along and help plant wild garlic and some winter/spring flowering bulbs. We also picked some vegetables and continued the big clean-up of the beds in preparation for next season's crop rotation.

Last week, we had to tackle the huge burdock bush that had outgrown its space – it was getting a bit too sticky and wild! We cut it back and have plans to replant it in a bigger, better spot. One of our visitors over the summer shared a fun fact – burdock is where the idea for Velcro originally came from! The children certainly found that believable after discovering how tricky it is to get burdock seeds out of your hair and clothes – a very sticky lesson learned this week!

We also picked some lovely runner beans and radishes. While snapping the top off one bean, I noticed a few woodlice hiding inside. I suggested we could still eat the bean, but one of our young gardeners asked me, "Why did you destroy the woodlice’s home?" A fair point – and a great reminder that it's not just us humans who rely on vegetables for food and shelter. It was my lesson of the week: we share this garden with so many little creatures, and they all play a part in the ecosystem.

Each week we live and learn in this beautiful environment – and it's inspiring to see the children developing their own awareness of how important it is to care for nature and live in harmony with it.

Our Tiny Veg Growers went home happy again this week. We shared the harvest with three families, giving out three lovely cabbages (we left the base and outer leaves in the ground so they’ll grow more smaller cabbages – we’ve already seen some starting to sprout!), plus some beautiful beetroots and more carrots. Happy gardeners and happy plates all around! 😊

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