Hawkwood’s seasonal Sunday plant sale days with free training slots to support your growing!
Plants will be available for sale individually every Sunday:
29 April, 6 May, 13 May, 20 May, 27 May from 11am-3pm
at our Hawkwood growing site and plant nursery. From 2-3pm, for those buying plants, there will be a free taster training hour with one of our growers to help you settle the plants into the garden with aftercare advice. Popular favourites such as tomatoes, squash, courgettes and more will be on sale – plants that are hard to get started without a greenhouse.
*Extra* activities on ‘plant sale’ Sundays include:
*Sun 6 May: From 12-1pm there will be a free ‘Permaculture taster’ hour
for those interested in joining this Autumn’s Permaculture Design Course.
*Sun 13 May: We’re joining up with London Community Resource Network who
will be at Hawkwood giving away compost bins and compost. See
http://www.lcrn.org.uk/composting-bin-giveaway for more details.
*Sun 20 May: Special training for food enthusiasts will focus on tomato
training, aftercare and know-how – Taking place from 2-3pm for those with
Hawkwood tomato plants to care for!
*Sun 27 May: Will be our monthly Sunday open day – where the featured
vegetables will be freshly dug Spring (wet) garlic or possibly this
season’s broad beasn… watch this growing space!
Our plants:
We grow all the plants ourselves in our glasshouse that we rent from the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Work is carried out by a team of growers including members of our workers’ cooperative and lots of local volunteers who support the project’s aim to see more food growing in London. Plants are taken from the glasshouses and acclimatised to the outdoors before being dispatched. The plants are strong and healthy, ready to compete with weed seedlings and garden pests!
Other plant stalls this season:
We will also be holding ‘taster’ plant stalls at our Hornbeam and Leytonstone market stalls on Saturday 5 May – come along to find out what’s available this growing season; at the Hornbeam on Saturday 12 May, and at Growing Communities’ Farmers Market in Stoke Newington on Saturday 28 April, 5 May and 12 May.
For other ways to get hold of our plants, including schools packages and bulk group orders, click here for all the details.
Hawkwood Nursery
115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford E4 7UH
Directions and transport details here
