spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 15/12/2024February is flatpack build month - a greenhouse and a big shed - and then in March we’ll start some Public activities with some gardening skills workshops. For now though, from all of us here at the Spode Rose Garden - happy yuletide to you all - and here’s to a better 2025. xx 000
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Remarkably, digging in Stoke, so near to an iconic pottery factory, excavation brought no ceramic finds - but there was this haul of lovely shiny bricks which will form the steps into the polytunnel. Looking forward to finishing this landscaping stage in January. 100
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 15/12/2024But one spadeful at a time the ground has changed shape into what can now be imagined as a productive growing space for our group to try and cultivate a new array of #SpodeChinaRoses along with new plants for the garden and some for sale to sustain ourselves. 100
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 15/12/2024That’s about it for this year - 6 weeks ago the first spade went in the ground to develop our new nursery project - the land was thick with buddleia and bindweed, and as we explored further - significant amounts of rubble 100
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 13/12/2024our new growing space just stepped up 000
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 03/12/2024readying the ground for our new polytunnel 000
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 29/11/2024a good week’s work on our new nursery ground project - 5 raised beds installed. Next up a polytunnel!! 000
Reposted by @spoderosegarden.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024On the banks of the Trent Mersey canal in Stoke on Trent. Dark. Snowing. Inappropriate clothing. Filming a documentary here now feels like a failing gamble. Outskirts of Moscow 1941 vibes. 1624310
spoderosegarden.bsky.social @spoderosegarden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024our new patch with two new beds - looking forward to start growing our own from spring 25 051