Grow Your Own is the Abingdon Green Forum focus for quarter 2 of 2024, from April to June. This is the best time of year to get started with growing herbs and vegetables. A stall on the Market place had free veg seedlings. There will be another stall in two weeks time where people can swap plants.

Volunteers were planting the containers and raised beds at the Edible Abingdon Garden at Old Station House today where there was an open day. Volunteers will maintain the plants over the summer.

Many of the residents from Old Station House were enjoying the sunshine and some cakes and tea, while staff showed visitors round parts of Old Station House.

The Edible Abingdon display shows how much can be grown in containers and small gardens and even balconies. They included:

Herbs: Parsley, Chives, Melissa (Lemon Balm), Bay, Lovage, Mint

Vegetables: Mangetout, Beans, Sorrel, Swiss Chard

Fruits: Rhubarb, Currant bushes

Edible Flowers: Marigolds, Pansies, Nasturtiums