Master Gardeners' blog posts
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
Reduce, re-use, recycle. So goes the primary school mantra as they transform old cardboard boxes into rockets and dolls’ houses, newspapers into plant pots and papier-mâché. Sitting in my garden rocking chair, sloe gin and tonic in hand, the sun on my face, I realize that my family and I have just spent a whole [...]
Sowing Seeds and Herding Cats
Don’t miss a crop with our spring planting guide
Events
1 & 2 June 2013: Become a Master Gardener to help local people benefit from growing food.
We’re looking for gardening enthusiasts to become volunteer Master Gardeners during spring 2013 in Lincolnshire. Master Gardeners mentor and inspire individuals, couples and families to grow and share food. Over 4,000 people supported in 1,900 households across 5 programme areas since May 2010. Master Gardeners promote food growing through events, talks, schools, and other innovations [...]
May 23rd: Louth Festival of the Bees
May 12th: The Stamford Garden Show
News
Spring Kitchen free April and May recipies
Spring Kitchen in Lincoln are producing seasonal recipe cards, available here as a pdf download. April and May include Spinach and Cheese Tortillas, Coconut Curried Leeks, Carrot and Coriander Soup as well as how to make your own Pesto and what to do with it afterwards. This is a great little resource – look out [...]
Testing your soil
Sowing New Ideas
Case Studies
Master Gardenering
A couple of quotes from Master Gardeners in the south of the fair county of Lincolnshire. ‘These children are incredibly well organised and are well on the way to getting raised beds installed as well as a composting system. They are already roping in parents and two of the three class teachers have worked the [...]






