<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171</id><updated>2012-02-03T03:13:56.024Z</updated><title type='text'>Eglantine Community Garden</title><subtitle type='html'>The Eglantine Community Garden, or the “Anarchist Plot” began life at a 
visioning day in Belfast for community, peace, social justice and 
environmental activists in February 04.
  We now have a number of veg beds, a beautiful 
array of flowers, about 20 willow trees and some soft fruit. 
  Many new friends have been made. The garden has a community atmosphere, and neighbours who live in the nearby streets are using the garden as a relaxing place to sit. All are equally welcome.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>48</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115804331085554072</id><published>2011-04-28T21:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-04-28T21:29:30.089Z</updated><title type='text'>Garden Day</title><content type='html'>Garden Day Saturday 30th April, from 11am! See you there... M&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115804331085554072?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115804331085554072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115804331085554072' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115804331085554072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115804331085554072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2011/04/garden-day.html' title='Garden Day'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-3914626766041144667</id><published>2011-03-25T11:10:00.004Z</published><updated>2011-03-25T11:25:37.158Z</updated><title type='text'>Planting potatos tomorrow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KgUr6pWTzhY/TYx4ytk6TjI/AAAAAAAAALk/69oL19i1xEk/s1600/summer%2Bgarden.jpeg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone, see you at potato planting at the garden tomorrow from 11am until about 3pm.  We'll  have a picnic lunch if the weather's nice so bring some food if you  can.  We'll also do some tidying up and maybe some work on the fences.   Hope to see you there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a poem someone sent me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Summer Palace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a little garden in your pocket.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dJugqPrK6Ng/TYx7WWRuYOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/USCxYVcGZlk/s1600/summer%2Bgarden.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 165px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dJugqPrK6Ng/TYx7WWRuYOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/USCxYVcGZlk/s400/summer%2Bgarden.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587976861527204066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plant your cuffs with radishes and rocket.&lt;br /&gt;Let a passion fruit crawl up your thigh.&lt;br /&gt;Grow some oregano in your fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a steamy compost of your fears.&lt;br /&gt;Trickle irrigate your life with tears.&lt;br /&gt;Let your troubled mind become a trellis.&lt;br /&gt;Turn your heart into a summer palace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Leunig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KgUr6pWTzhY/TYx4ytk6TjI/AAAAAAAAALk/69oL19i1xEk/s1600/summer%2Bgarden.jpeg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-3914626766041144667?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/3914626766041144667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=3914626766041144667' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3914626766041144667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3914626766041144667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2011/03/planting-potatos-tomorrow.html' title='Planting potatos tomorrow'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dJugqPrK6Ng/TYx7WWRuYOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/USCxYVcGZlk/s72-c/summer%2Bgarden.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-8721735078266474160</id><published>2010-11-22T13:51:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-11-22T14:07:06.438Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp2FetbykI/AAAAAAAAAKw/pxW1n3ymVBQ/s1600/dsc01022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 228px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp2FetbykI/AAAAAAAAAKw/pxW1n3ymVBQ/s400/dsc01022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542372127947868738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Here are a few photos from my visit to Birchfields Forest garden in Manchester. The first is of their Medlar tree, the second shows a tough ground cover strawberry that doesn't mind being walked on, and the third a wide view. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp2FIIijXI/AAAAAAAAAKo/PyaX7LGMgRA/s1600/dsc01021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 215px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp2FIIijXI/AAAAAAAAAKo/PyaX7LGMgRA/s400/dsc01021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542372121887542642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;One thing I'm coming to understand  is that forest gardens aren't dense and shady as you might imagine a  regular forest might be. Rather they mimic young growth forest, in an  ealy stage of succession, which is when they are most biodiverse, I  think. Ordered Martin Crawford's 'How to make a Forest Garden',  exciting, and we're ordering trees to be delivered from England (can't  seem to find the dwarf varieties we want on this island, any hints  anyone?). One thing is that the woody bit in Eglantine is already quite  shady, so it could be that all our species will have to be shade  tolerant, which is ok, but just limits us a bit more, but sure that's  the craic of the thing. Stay tuned for details of a planting day. I will  perhaps get around to turning the medlar picture round sometime soon  also ;oj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp1vNrVfvI/AAAAAAAAAKg/33ep6a2_AQ4/s1600/dsc01018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp1vNrVfvI/AAAAAAAAAKg/33ep6a2_AQ4/s400/dsc01018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542371745418542834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-8721735078266474160?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/8721735078266474160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=8721735078266474160' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/8721735078266474160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/8721735078266474160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/11/here-are-few-photos-from-my-visit-to.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TOp2FetbykI/AAAAAAAAAKw/pxW1n3ymVBQ/s72-c/dsc01022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-8059011050044877328</id><published>2010-10-29T10:13:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-10-29T10:30:43.057Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>It's strange and wonderful, I'm blogging from my seat on a ferry crossing the Irish Sea...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Going on a trip to see birchfields forest garden near Manchester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/node/182&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TMqe0-uFUXI/AAAAAAAAAKY/8qG-7XOpmqA/s1600/forest_garden1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TMqe0-uFUXI/AAAAAAAAAKY/8qG-7XOpmqA/s400/forest_garden1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533409725204746610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'ye reckon eglantine could have a forest garden? :o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll let you all know how I get on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;m x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-8059011050044877328?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/8059011050044877328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=8059011050044877328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/8059011050044877328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/8059011050044877328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/10/going-on-trip-to-see-birchfields-forest.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TMqe0-uFUXI/AAAAAAAAAKY/8qG-7XOpmqA/s72-c/forest_garden1.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-7952684121132453366</id><published>2010-10-07T14:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-10-07T14:44:54.496Z</updated><title type='text'>Our compost bin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TK3cwXTMC5I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/XzO2GSaz7y0/s1600/dsc00580.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TK3cwXTMC5I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/XzO2GSaz7y0/s400/dsc00580.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525315041299794834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-7952684121132453366?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/7952684121132453366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=7952684121132453366' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/7952684121132453366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/7952684121132453366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-compost-bin.html' title='Our compost bin'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TK3cwXTMC5I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/XzO2GSaz7y0/s72-c/dsc00580.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-2915902713671157511</id><published>2010-07-30T22:28:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-08-05T19:10:30.817Z</updated><title type='text'>Whaaaat's been happening in the garden? </title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNSPC7HKGI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Y6Ep5fiCIrA/s1600/dsc00577.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNSPC7HKGI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Y6Ep5fiCIrA/s400/dsc00577.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499829988385826914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A picture of the garden in the sunshine earlier this year. I'm afraid I haven't been active at all in the garden this year, other things kinda got in the way. I'm told other people have been there plenty, so I hope everyone feels free to wander over when they feel like it. We'll have a garden day on the 14th of August, from 11 -3, with tidying, and some nibbles and some craic. Hope you can make it along.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-2915902713671157511?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/2915902713671157511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=2915902713671157511' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2915902713671157511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2915902713671157511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/07/whaaaats-been-happening-in-garden.html' title='Whaaaat&apos;s been happening in the garden? '/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNSPC7HKGI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Y6Ep5fiCIrA/s72-c/dsc00577.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-1781751074603116502</id><published>2010-05-30T22:15:00.006Z</published><updated>2010-08-05T19:12:29.334Z</updated><title type='text'>New herb bed.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNPdTt3j-I/AAAAAAAAAJw/FdE3-rPmQcs/s1600/dsc00603.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNPdTt3j-I/AAAAAAAAAJw/FdE3-rPmQcs/s400/dsc00603.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499826934876966882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNRU--j9iI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/AaD6gp6-EdY/s1600/dsc00600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNRU--j9iI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/AaD6gp6-EdY/s200/dsc00600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499828990894143010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A photo of the new Wildflower and Herb bed Ruth and the gang made the other day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note the new and groovy graffiti in the background. :o)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-1781751074603116502?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/1781751074603116502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=1781751074603116502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1781751074603116502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1781751074603116502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-herb-bed.html' title='New herb bed.'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/TFNPdTt3j-I/AAAAAAAAAJw/FdE3-rPmQcs/s72-c/dsc00603.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-4808657353897113095</id><published>2010-04-26T07:39:00.006Z</published><updated>2010-07-30T22:35:32.147Z</updated><title type='text'>Wall Fixing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/S9WGN4EDI7I/AAAAAAAAAJo/rjFQ_fZtP4U/s1600/wall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/S9WGN4EDI7I/AAAAAAAAAJo/rjFQ_fZtP4U/s200/wall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464421295829754802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi, just a short note to say we'll be meeting at the garden this Saturday 8st May from 11am to make some more progress with fixing our old red brick wall. Come along to help and hang out. M&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;....Update... Wonderful Wall fixing guys! Go Team!!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-4808657353897113095?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/4808657353897113095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=4808657353897113095' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/4808657353897113095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/4808657353897113095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/04/wall-fixing.html' title='Wall Fixing'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/S9WGN4EDI7I/AAAAAAAAAJo/rjFQ_fZtP4U/s72-c/wall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-2426580526456324398</id><published>2010-01-21T16:26:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-01-21T16:43:24.647Z</updated><title type='text'>January updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/S1iDxYKUmbI/AAAAAAAAAJY/Urm9CEzXBGM/s1600-h/3089769729_daa3a00bce.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/S1iDxYKUmbI/AAAAAAAAAJY/Urm9CEzXBGM/s320/3089769729_daa3a00bce.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429234235117705650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hi everyone, hope youse are all cosy and easing into 2010 ok. Just to let you know about some garden things:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will finish repairing the Victorian brick wall in the garden this spring, hopefully in February, but we're waiting for some good weather. We'll probably do the work on a Saturday, and will probably do it on short notice, as we want to be sure the weather is suitable. But when that happens we'll send out the call, so if you're interested in bricklaying, victorian architecture or just want to be involved, watch out for that message!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A group of traders from St George's market are developing a cookbook to celebrate the market and its place in Belfast society. The Community Garden has been asked to contribute a recipe or two or a poem to the book. Can you think of any special memory that links the two places? I'd thought of the garden tradition that we plant our spuds on St Patrick's day and harvest them on 12th July, thought that could fit in nicely somehow. If you have thoughts or want to be involved let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a few gardening workshops in the pipeline for beginner gardeners, and when I have details I'll let you know. In the meantime if you want any pointers on where to get started at this time of year, either in your garden plot or at home, just give me a shout.&lt;br /&gt;See email address at the side of this page, and let me know if you'd like to be on our mailing list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;---- &lt;-----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the best, hopefully see you in the garden over the coming season :o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miriam and everyone at ECG&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-2426580526456324398?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/2426580526456324398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=2426580526456324398' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2426580526456324398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2426580526456324398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2010/01/january-updates.html' title='January updates'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/S1iDxYKUmbI/AAAAAAAAAJY/Urm9CEzXBGM/s72-c/3089769729_daa3a00bce.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-6153985747034834437</id><published>2009-10-29T17:22:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-10-29T17:49:25.163Z</updated><title type='text'>Garden Pub Quiz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"&gt;Don't miss the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;2nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Biennial&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Eglantine&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Community&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Garden&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Pub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Quiz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"&gt;Join in the antics to win&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"&gt;Prizes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;All proceeds to buy Tools and Seeds for the Eglantine Community Garden in South Belfast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;When?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:00 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Where?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;John Hewitt pub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;51 Donegall Street &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"&gt;Belfast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-6153985747034834437?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/6153985747034834437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=6153985747034834437' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/6153985747034834437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/6153985747034834437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/10/garden-pub-quiz.html' title='Garden Pub Quiz'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-4587024010092258468</id><published>2009-09-21T17:46:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-09-30T15:51:26.068Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;You are invited to watch, visit or take part in Artistic Interventions in the Eglantine Neighbourhood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;1st and 2nd October 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On the 1st and 2nd of October from 2-6pm, 8 young emerging artists will realise public art projects in and around the garden. They are all students of the Masters programme Art in Public at the University of Ulster. They were invited by FIX09 to realise some temporary art projects. They chose the neighbourhood around the Eglantine Garden to locate their activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FIX09 is an international Performance Art Festival that takes place every 2 years in Belfast. This year the festival focuses on participation.&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span class="on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Link" class="gl_link" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://fixcatalyst.wordpress.com/"&gt;http://fixcatalyst.wordpress.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a programme of events please see the comment attached to this post. (Below)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-4587024010092258468?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/4587024010092258468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=4587024010092258468' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/4587024010092258468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/4587024010092258468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/09/you-are-invited-to-watch-visit-or-take.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-3307734796977658798</id><published>2009-06-28T09:33:00.027Z</published><updated>2009-09-21T16:34:31.116Z</updated><title type='text'>20June 2009-Community Garden Tour in Belfast</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkdAz2j3HOI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JzkPp5gGdCI/s1600-h/IMG_0865.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkdAz2j3HOI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JzkPp5gGdCI/s320/IMG_0865.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352317941716557026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Belfast Green Spaces Bus Tour was a great success altogether, and thanks to everyone who took part. With buses and drivers donated from the National Trust and CVNI, we toured 5 urban food projects in the South Belfast area alone! Beginning at the Eglantine Community Garden Project off the Malone Road, the 25 travellers heard about the projects beginnings, adventures and hopes for the future. Moving on the the Community Garden at Minnowburn National Trust office, everyone was delighted by the picturesque gardens, which were impressively only a year old. After a sunny lunch and chat with fellow enthusiasts, we visited CVNI's garden at Knockbracken Healthcare Park, and heard about their dedicated local volunteers, and about their "Dig it and eat it" programme.  On arrival at the Belfast City Council Annadale Allotments we were shown around by an allotmenteer, and had lots of fun packing into a tiny shed to hear the allotment gossip. The allotments are beautiful, and a good example of a mature site, from a horticultural and community point of view. Finally we called by the Blythefield allotments in the Village, which is a lovely site, with lots of spare spaces going free!&lt;br /&gt;In the evening we shared food and discussed possible future actions for people interested in community and food green space in Belfast. If you're interested, let us know!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/Skc6u21cwCI/AAAAAAAAAFY/rdSsVltvh-M/s1600-h/IMG_0803.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-3307734796977658798?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/3307734796977658798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=3307734796977658798' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3307734796977658798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3307734796977658798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/06/20june-2009-community-garden-tour-in.html' title='20June 2009-Community Garden Tour in Belfast'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkdAz2j3HOI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JzkPp5gGdCI/s72-c/IMG_0865.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-5186877462915530995</id><published>2009-06-27T12:58:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-09-21T17:45:19.040Z</updated><title type='text'>Garden Play</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/Srev6qxF3ZI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hFXXbMgN5V4/s1600-h/play.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/Srev6qxF3ZI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hFXXbMgN5V4/s320/play.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383965301992185234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span class="on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Well, it would be rude not to put something in about Kristiina's gorgeous play. It brought a tear to my eye, it really did. Monologues from 'gardeners' talking about their reasons for being involved were followed by a dramatic chopping of salad from the garden, which was later doled out to spectators. :o) But the nicest bit was the story between a guy and girl, who are getting to know each other, and decide that the garden is the best place to do it. It was amazing!&lt;br /&gt;PS Kristiina, I have your suitcase!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/Srev6qxF3ZI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hFXXbMgN5V4/s1600-h/play.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-5186877462915530995?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/5186877462915530995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=5186877462915530995' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/5186877462915530995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/5186877462915530995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/06/garden-play.html' title='Garden Play'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/Srev6qxF3ZI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hFXXbMgN5V4/s72-c/play.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-2299823094312279792</id><published>2009-06-27T12:47:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-01-21T16:46:14.109Z</updated><title type='text'>Bee Story</title><content type='html'>I'm sure someone else could write up this story better than me, but we had some miner bees, or ground nesting bees living in the garden last month. Lindsay had to give up her plot cos they'd taken up residence, and Alex helpfully made a sign to warn people. Stephanie from RSPB organised their wildlife gardening campaign from the gardeen, and lovely etymologist Robert from Queen's came and gave us a lovely couple of hours of jumping about the garden identifying 5 differnt species, and even caught one and got us to smell it! Diff bees smell different apparently, and they tickle your nose endearingly while you're smelling them. Thierry told a bee joke and everyone went home happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkYVCKvCjEI/AAAAAAAAAFI/iyqBpiUyY1Q/s1600-h/07beestory.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkYVCKvCjEI/AAAAAAAAAFI/iyqBpiUyY1Q/s200/07beestory.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351988334161988674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkYVCa8fXaI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/RppcT-TsUGs/s1600-h/10beeandsage.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkYVCa8fXaI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/RppcT-TsUGs/s200/10beeandsage.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351988338513370530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-2299823094312279792?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/2299823094312279792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=2299823094312279792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2299823094312279792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2299823094312279792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/06/bee-story.html' title='Bee Story'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SkYVCKvCjEI/AAAAAAAAAFI/iyqBpiUyY1Q/s72-c/07beestory.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-6751863771830343720</id><published>2009-05-24T19:58:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-05-24T20:02:54.548Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Work on the community garden is still going well, and the garden's getting prettier all the time. We're having regular &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;workdays&lt;/span&gt; every Saturday from 10 -2 now, at least for the rest of the Summer, so come along if you're interested (map below). Or you can email to check what's happening on any particular Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There'll be a &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;performance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in the garden this Monday &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;25th May&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;8pm&lt;/span&gt;, all about the garden and the people who use it. Come and join the audience!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love Miriam&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-6751863771830343720?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/6751863771830343720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=6751863771830343720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/6751863771830343720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/6751863771830343720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/05/work-on-community-garden-is-still-going.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-7302087574648731240</id><published>2009-04-24T11:35:00.008Z</published><updated>2010-07-30T22:23:14.987Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGqJ_XUTdI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hAjZwjZQNSs/s1600-h/22_4_09+318.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 153px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGqJ_XUTdI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hAjZwjZQNSs/s200/22_4_09+318.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328226922760785362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Hello everyone&lt;/span&gt;, and thanks so much for your help at the garden day on Saturday. I really enjoyed it, the sun, the food, the people...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Raspberry bed before........and after!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGqKF7euvI/AAAAAAAAAFA/IiNF5KR-qpE/s1600-h/22_4_09+319.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGqKF7euvI/AAAAAAAAAFA/IiNF5KR-qpE/s200/22_4_09+319.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328226924523076338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The raspberries in the new raspberry bed are looking great. And all the tidying has helped get the place ready for summer.&lt;br /&gt;One of the compost bins is missing, not sure where it's gone. Apparently some people had a bonfire during the week and got a bit carried away ("make it a BIG fire, make it BIIG!!!), so it might have been burnt then. but the other lonely bin is still there. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGnL5xQFGI/AAAAAAAAAEw/G5AiBuzy2dA/s1600-h/22_4_09+329.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGnL5xQFGI/AAAAAAAAAEw/G5AiBuzy2dA/s400/22_4_09+329.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328223657083802722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We're planning new compost bins, to be installed sometime this year, and hopefully they will be more permanent.&lt;br /&gt;We're planning the next &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;ga&lt;/span&gt;rden d&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;y &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;for &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"&gt;am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"&gt; -2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"&gt;pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;S&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;turday 2&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt; May&lt;/span&gt; (though if anyone's heading to the Mayday march in town there will probably still be people in the garden until 4 tidying up).&lt;br /&gt;We'll be working on the new (very small) "starter plots" for people wanting to start growing their own in the garden.  So anyone who is interested in coming along and working on their own bit of ground is welcome.&lt;br /&gt;If you want to be on the regular events list, mail &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;eglantinecommunitygarden--@--googlemail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love and luck, Miriam&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-7302087574648731240?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/7302087574648731240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=7302087574648731240' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/7302087574648731240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/7302087574648731240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/04/hello-everyone-and-thanks-so-much-for.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SfGqJ_XUTdI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hAjZwjZQNSs/s72-c/22_4_09+318.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-9126630527347931905</id><published>2009-03-23T10:04:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-01-21T16:51:54.871Z</updated><title type='text'>Design Workshop results</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone, thanks so much for your hard work and contributions at the Garden design workshop last weekend, it was really inspiring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd like to propose a date to set up the association. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;**This meeting has been postponed until wednesday 29th April at 7pm**&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a flavour of the ideas we produced...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~Permanant Fire pit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Evergreens to shade out rubbish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Fence untidy bits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Shrub sculptures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Big rocks for seats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Keep the brambles! good for blackberries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Water collection along the top of the wall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Plant into nooks in wall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Mural&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Abandoned christmas tree sanctuary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;random seed bombs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;have a stage on the concrete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Have bbq or compost facilities on concrete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Have a weather station or weather vane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;rainwater collection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;gnomes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Recycling bins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Non flamable seats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Bird feeder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Bird bath&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;cement shells into walls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;plant for the birds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;concrete seating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;project (films for eg) onto concrete walls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;have a classroom area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ask a school to sponsor an area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;have a "tasting station" bed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;hens?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sinage: welcome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Arch over the alleyways, in iron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;info board&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;paint alleyways a brighter colour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;have planters along alleyway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;have seats in the sun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Poss in future when site is more secure have a polytunnel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;wheelchair access&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;biodiversity areas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;pond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;compost area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;lights/cctv?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;...or just a sign saying there's cctv?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Maypole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Tarp/sheltered area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;notice board informing of work to be done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ign posts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;contact info&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;reflexology path&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;chainsaw art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;tory board with history of garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Ask Housing exec or council to provide a regular skip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;trim trail for people exercising&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;logs as stepping stones for kids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;music events&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;backing board behind "stage"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;security light at each end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;pond in bit that's already dipped&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;seats and fire in centre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;willow fence by carpark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;wildflowers near the house of the neighbour who would look after them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;orchard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;compost near concrete, shielded by orchard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;shed for tools on concrete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;publicised grafitti wall, painted over every month for fresh art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;keep spirit of garden, not too hyped up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Keep relaxed and not over publicised&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;smell and touch things for disabled people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;events&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;appropriate signs "enjoy the garden, but treat it well..." etc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Get schools to donate bird feeders from their woodwork classes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;dedicate trees to different groups in the area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Have mural to depict different groups in area, young, old etc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Snake path or hopscotch path&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;pond with fishes for kids to feed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;gnomes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Easter trail for kids with hidden choc eggs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;get schools to plant flowers, with plaques to say who planted them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Water pipes to collect water to water beds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;BBq&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Swings and slides for kids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Less obvious things for kids to climb on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Flowers for bees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sundial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Colour in the garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Spring bulbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Fence in trees with the willow, rather than a straight line fence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Round flower bed near carparkto demarkate space rather than straight fence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ow maintenance flowers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Only light alleyways, let garden stay dark, for insects, lovers, astronomers and people who like sitting under trees in the dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Seating on concrete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Mural or tiles in concrete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;logs for seating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Don't have too many seats, nice to sit on grass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Have a mowed strip between concrete path and trees to make it look tended&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Enchanted evenings in the garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Cut out willow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;mow grass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Take out ivy, birds or no birds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Rapberry bed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Veg beds all along wall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Replace goat willow with fruit trees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phew! and lots more.&lt;br /&gt;Love Miriam&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-9126630527347931905?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/9126630527347931905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=9126630527347931905' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/9126630527347931905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/9126630527347931905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/03/design-workshop-results.html' title='Design Workshop results'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-1838055143476527239</id><published>2009-02-26T10:06:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-02-26T10:08:12.301Z</updated><title type='text'>Compost facilities in Eglantine community Garden</title><content type='html'>Just to let you know that the compost bins are now accessable, after a few weeks of them being covered by a partial wall collapse. There's still a bit of work left to do to get the garden in pristine condition for summer. Happy composting!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-1838055143476527239?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/1838055143476527239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=1838055143476527239' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1838055143476527239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1838055143476527239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2009/02/compost-facilities-in-eglantine.html' title='Compost facilities in Eglantine community Garden'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-567581012767271586</id><published>2008-09-22T16:44:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-09-22T16:49:41.683Z</updated><title type='text'>The people have the power...well so far!</title><content type='html'>After the positive South Belfast news article regarding the garden and our concerns about the parking vehicles we are to be meeting with Anna Lo!!!! This Frida, many of us (to fit into her office) are invited to come and speak our views, ideas and basically put forth what we would like her to do!! and the ideas that she has for us!. &lt;br /&gt;I am really happy and grateful to have gained this opportunity to speak with Anna and hope that we can set in stone a garden protection policy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over and out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will let you know how it goes if you are not making it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-567581012767271586?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/567581012767271586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=567581012767271586' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/567581012767271586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/567581012767271586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/09/people-have-powerwell-so-far.html' title='The people have the power...well so far!'/><author><name>Alexandra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11083297252577524895</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-5847009306355659007</id><published>2008-09-21T09:44:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-09-21T10:28:58.242Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>So it has been a quiet summer in the Garden, but there have been things happening all the same. The kids who are the primary inhabitants of the garden nowadays learned to pick blackcurrants and raspberies, so we kissed goodbye to that crop ;o)&lt;br /&gt;There was, however, a great crop of potatoes, and herbs, especially earlier in the year.&lt;br /&gt;I spoke to one of the landlords who own one of the strips of land that comprise the garden, and while the conversation was not as fruitful as I hoped she gave temporary verbal permission for us to be there.&lt;br /&gt;We're working on coming up with articles of association, so that we can get a bank account for the garden. There are two possible funding sources that we could apply to for money to buy some of the land. Let me know if you've experience in funding applications!&lt;br /&gt;We had an article in the South Belfast News, which was sympathetic. I didn't agree with some of what they wrote, and they made up some of the quotes attributed to us, but I looked ok in the photo, so...&lt;br /&gt;We've got lots of positive feedback from local people who say they appreciate the garden and who use it. That's the main thing, ay?&lt;br /&gt;We have a meeting coming up with Alliance MLA Anna Lo, when we'll discuss the garden and see if there's any help she can give us. We'll have a discussion beforehand about our plans for the garden, on Fri the 26th Sept, so let me know if you can make it (see email address on left).&lt;br /&gt;If you'd like to blog on this site about the garden let me know too!&lt;br /&gt;Love Miriam&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-5847009306355659007?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/5847009306355659007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=5847009306355659007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/5847009306355659007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/5847009306355659007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/09/so-it-has-been-quiet-summer-in-garden.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-555191112942463085</id><published>2008-05-26T13:57:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-05-26T14:00:12.752Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Wow!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; Summer is really here. Please feel free to visit the garden, sit in the sun, tidy up, pick herbs, use the compost bins or watch the wildlife. Whatever makes you happy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-555191112942463085?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/555191112942463085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=555191112942463085' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/555191112942463085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/555191112942463085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/05/wow-summer-is-really-here.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-3559781856068118166</id><published>2008-03-15T23:52:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-03-15T23:54:43.665Z</updated><title type='text'>St Paddy's Day Picnic</title><content type='html'>The great annual St. Patrick's Day Picnic! Starting at 3 on monday the 17th (despite the pope's reshuffling of the date;o)), but if you want to help set up come for 1pm. Bring barbeque-able food and whatever else you like. The weather forecast says it's going to be sunny! m:o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See below for a map.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-3559781856068118166?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/3559781856068118166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=3559781856068118166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3559781856068118166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3559781856068118166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/03/st-paddys-day-picnic.html' title='St Paddy&apos;s Day Picnic'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-3977984680841123920</id><published>2008-01-28T22:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-28T22:48:12.579Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>70 metres of path dug! Wow, you guys are amazing!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Path &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" &gt;FILLING IN &lt;/span&gt;to occur this sat, see here for more details.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-3977984680841123920?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/3977984680841123920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=3977984680841123920' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3977984680841123920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/3977984680841123920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/01/70-metres-of-path-dug-wow-you-guys-are.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-4540111915564012681</id><published>2008-01-21T22:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-21T22:29:42.814Z</updated><title type='text'>Path Digging photos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Photos from Saturday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr922iaZI/AAAAAAAAABA/ioQKM5V2j6g/s1600-h/00001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr922iaZI/AAAAAAAAABA/ioQKM5V2j6g/s320/00001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158006921174870418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr-22iaaI/AAAAAAAAABI/GKpArxGwxzc/s1600-h/00009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr-22iaaI/AAAAAAAAABI/GKpArxGwxzc/s320/00009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158006938354739618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr_W2iabI/AAAAAAAAABQ/-6QSy0pN644/s1600-h/00013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr_W2iabI/AAAAAAAAABQ/-6QSy0pN644/s320/00013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158006946944674226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr_22iacI/AAAAAAAAABY/-JyGcW4DJqE/s1600-h/00016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr_22iacI/AAAAAAAAABY/-JyGcW4DJqE/s320/00016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158006955534608834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;Here are the best of the pics from Saturday. See below for a write up on the day. Everyone welcome for another day of digging this coming Saturday 26th Jan, 10am -4pm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;Bring good shoes, warm clothes and work gloves if you have them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;And now for the pics:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-4540111915564012681?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/4540111915564012681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=4540111915564012681' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/4540111915564012681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/4540111915564012681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/01/here-are-best-of-pics-from-saturday.html' title='Path Digging photos'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5Tr922iaZI/AAAAAAAAABA/ioQKM5V2j6g/s72-c/00001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-2192854613342086677</id><published>2008-01-21T21:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-23T11:58:19.312Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5UUiG2iadI/AAAAAAAAABg/8Swoxjf76Y4/s1600-h/00017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5UUiG2iadI/AAAAAAAAABg/8Swoxjf76Y4/s200/00017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158051524410239442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5UUom2iafI/AAAAAAAAABw/C2fR7LX_3tU/s1600-h/00022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5UUom2iafI/AAAAAAAAABw/C2fR7LX_3tU/s200/00022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158051636079389170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5UUtm2iagI/AAAAAAAAAB4/oFWbWbyk5zk/s1600-h/00029.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-2192854613342086677?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/2192854613342086677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=2192854613342086677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2192854613342086677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2192854613342086677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/R5UUiG2iadI/AAAAAAAAABg/8Swoxjf76Y4/s72-c/00017.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-2914439343381397882</id><published>2008-01-21T18:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-23T11:48:23.554Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0  (Linux)"&gt;&lt;meta name="AUTHOR" content="emma cowan"&gt;&lt;meta name="CREATED" content="20080119;17220000"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="emma cowan"&gt;&lt;meta name="CHANGED" content="20080119;18370000"&gt;              &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;  &lt;!--   @page { margin: 2cm }   P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }  --&gt;  &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-size:180%;" &gt;Emma's Reflections on Path Digging Day Number 1!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;I wanted to write a little about today, as way of reflection so here goes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;I really had a fantastic afternoon thanks to an email from a friend Miriam. Today I visited and helped to dig a pathway at the Eglantine Community Garden (or the “Anarchist Plot” Community Garden). It was my first visit, so I wasn’t even sure when I left my home in the West if I would find it. Directions from the blogsite did help.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;SO I arrived with a spade my father had lent me, ‘workie’ gloves and boots and a supply of food in my rucksack. There I found my fellow digging mates enjoying a cup of real coffee. Good start I thought. A strange site, picture this, three souls sitting on plastic summer seats, spades and wheel barrows and lots of dirt and surrounded on all sides by back walls of imposing buildings. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but a fully fledged garden ornamental walled garden it was not. However, there was a definite sense that what I saw in front of me was the accumulated work of many people over time, four years as it turned out. The area behind Eglantine Avenue or behind Malone Avenue, depending on your method of approach, is a treasure of discovery.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;Gerard, Miriam and Darren had already dug a substantial way on the proposed pathway through the plot. After coffee Miriam gave me a guided tour,  pointing out willow, blackcurrant, a new apple tree, strawberries in raised beds….with each new discovery I was filled with joy and delight. When you first enter the garden it looks like a jumbled mess, but on closer examination it is incredible to note just what is living and thriving there.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;Spade in hand, we progressed with the path, moving earth and leaving a tunnel to be filled in with hard core and stones in later weeks. Others joined the fun Budu, and lovely Doris.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;I shared such a lovely moment with Budu who is from Nepal. He has been here for six months and has a sister here in Belfast and a brother in Nepal. I was using dad’s spade with glee and he was coming after and scooping up the dark brown dirt mixed with terracotta red bricks into the wheelbarrow. He began to hum, so I asked him to sing. He agreed and then paused, gently leaning on the shaft of the spade, then began singing in Nepali. What a lovely lilt. Obviously I no idea what the lyrics meant. But hey, to be sung to on a cold January day warmed my sense of delight in being alive and in the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;There were so many other highlights, but here are a few:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Darren finding a  buried jumper: uncovered it looked like an A-level art  project-definitely art darling!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Discovering that  Gerard has an allotment near where I live, and that he is looking  for help/or to allow me to use part of it!! Im SOO excited&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Watching 4 year  old little girl dressed in pink boots holding a small shovel reminding us  that she loves ballet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Realising that  Doris and I had already made a connection via email- small world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;LUNCH- at 3pm.  Eating and talking around a wooden table, sharing food and  appreciating food, followed by a whisky coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Mirko, Phillip and  Valerie joining us- the German contingent which reminded me of time  in Portugal on the land there- everywhere I go I meet fantastically  skilled Germans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;I have to say I would recommend that others come down, next week in fact. More digging and path preparation to be done. From 10-4pm.The welcome was super, meeting new people with similar interests in the outdoors, social and physical transformation, gardening, creating and cooking! Wow! The added benefit of the physical exercise is not to be underestimated. I felt so good afterwards that I am bursting to tell others.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-2914439343381397882?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/2914439343381397882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=2914439343381397882' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2914439343381397882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/2914439343381397882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2008/01/dear-miriam-emmas-reflections-on-path.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-1248371387832098978</id><published>2007-12-13T14:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-12-13T14:18:32.300Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Thanks to everyone who supported the garden path fundraiser in october. We raised £150, and  we're now planning a work day to dig the paths, probably sometime in december.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-1248371387832098978?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/1248371387832098978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=1248371387832098978' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1248371387832098978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1248371387832098978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2007/12/thanks-to-everyone-who-supported-garden.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-1466689659016923285</id><published>2007-09-29T12:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-09-29T13:07:56.948Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" &gt;Garden Day 30th Sept&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;so  the plan is  to remove one of the beds, to take out half of the willows and to build up the beds at the back of the garden. Phillip is delivering some compost for us.  The idea is to end up with  a lawn at one end of the garden where people can sit and enjoy the garden without having to hack through the undergrowth. I hope you all can make it to help our remodelling!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-1466689659016923285?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/1466689659016923285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=1466689659016923285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1466689659016923285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/1466689659016923285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2007/09/garden-day-30th-sept-ok-so-plan-is-to.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-578756891716129332</id><published>2007-09-15T16:52:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-09-15T17:20:25.281Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RuwUPa4SElI/AAAAAAAAAAs/SlCwEIhg9mQ/s1600-h/Cottagegarden.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RuwUPa4SElI/AAAAAAAAAAs/SlCwEIhg9mQ/s400/Cottagegarden.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110481932304650834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Garden Path Pub Quiz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In&lt;br /&gt;The John Hewitt&lt;br /&gt;7pm, Thursday 18th October&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We’re raising money to construct paths in Eglantine Community Garden in South Belfast. Teams can be formed on the night, for General Knowledge, Gardening and Music rounds, with plenty of space for chat inbetween.  There'll be a raffle and some info on the garden and our plans. Hope to see everyone there :o)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-578756891716129332?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/578756891716129332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=578756891716129332' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/578756891716129332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/578756891716129332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2007/09/garden-path-pub-quiz-in-john-hewitt-7pm.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RuwUPa4SElI/AAAAAAAAAAs/SlCwEIhg9mQ/s72-c/Cottagegarden.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-8670184757618805420</id><published>2007-04-15T16:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-04-15T17:23:47.086Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJbIOmm18I/AAAAAAAAAAM/R-WtNig0APk/s1600-h/games1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJbIOmm18I/AAAAAAAAAAM/R-WtNig0APk/s200/games1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053701928780224450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;~~&lt;/span&gt;Garden Update&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;~~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi, Thanks to everyone for a lovely St Patrick's Day picnic, 'twas lovely. Here are a few photos Mark took of the games that Annie organised, and great for keeping warm they were too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJbIemm19I/AAAAAAAAAAU/IYAtPMHX8qM/s1600-h/games2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJbIemm19I/AAAAAAAAAAU/IYAtPMHX8qM/s200/games2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053701933075191762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stuff in the garden is growing buck mental at the minute, everything is lush and plentiful. this could also indicate that everything is about to go to seed, so sowing seeds is a priority, so we'll have things to replace plants on their way out.&lt;br /&gt;We're also looking at getting some topsoil to build up beds and improve their water retention. Looks like it's going to be a hot, dry summer...&lt;br /&gt;The neighbours are coming out of the woodwork, though. We had a big dumping incident last month, when people living in one of the flats on Malone Av dumped about 20 binbags worth of household rubbish in the middle of the garden and set it alight. I&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJeKumm1-I/AAAAAAAAAAc/xyUIQbMTNw4/s1600-h/00004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJeKumm1-I/AAAAAAAAAAc/xyUIQbMTNw4/s320/00004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053705270264780770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;t was an awful pain to get it cleared up, but it seems to have got all the neighbours on our side, cos lots of them have been coming out in the last few days of warm weather to talk to us and say how much they like the garden being here. Some have even started harvesting some herbs for their dinner! Today people from another flat on Malone Av had a big family barbeque out the back, with about 20 peope, young and old. It was great to see people using the space, and smelled good too.&lt;br /&gt;So there's lots of good news. We'll probably have to sort out the compost to reduce the number of flies around, which is silly at the minute, but apart from that all's good. See youse soon for another garden day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, Miriam&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-8670184757618805420?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/8670184757618805420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=8670184757618805420' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/8670184757618805420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/8670184757618805420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2007/04/garden-update-hi-thanks-to-everyone-for.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/RiJbIOmm18I/AAAAAAAAAAM/R-WtNig0APk/s72-c/games1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-7271498569223398338</id><published>2007-02-21T18:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-22T09:49:43.605Z</updated><title type='text'>Growing for life</title><content type='html'>Visit the Northern Ireland Environment Link to download the "&lt;a href="http://www.nienvironmentlink.org/publications/index.asp"&gt;Growing for Life" directory&lt;/a&gt;, which is a guide to community and small scale food production and distribution in NI. EgComGarden is in there too! (follow the link and scroll down to directories to find "Growing for Life")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come to the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Garden Day&lt;/span&gt; on Saturday 17th March. The garden has been growing wild over the winter, so there's lots to do. You could sow some seeds now to plant out for &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;St Patrick's Day&lt;/span&gt;! See the post below for more details.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-7271498569223398338?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/7271498569223398338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=7271498569223398338' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/7271498569223398338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/7271498569223398338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2007/02/download-growing-for-life-directory.html' title='Growing for life'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-5473885864072190419</id><published>2007-02-21T18:25:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-09-21T18:23:57.898Z</updated><title type='text'>Garden Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"&gt;Hello everyone, please put a big gigantic sign up on your fridge in your kitchen to remind you about the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"  &gt;COMMUNITY GARDEN DAY&lt;/span&gt; -Saturday 17th March!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some details are still to be confirmed, but we'll be kicking off at 1.30pm and finishing at 430. There will be yummy food and lots of sunshine, i know cos i'm in direct contact with god. OK, I do know that there will be a chance to plant whatever seedlings you've been bringing on, so if you were meaning to sow something, get it going now and it'll be ready by Paddy's day. There will also be a seed swop, so you can bring along whatever seeds you have too many of, and take home some of the ones I have too many of. There will also hopefully be a weed identification quiz, and some sign making.&lt;br /&gt;Hope to see you there, to welcome in the spring. Get back to me with any suggestions or ideas for activities...&lt;br /&gt;Love Miriam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-5473885864072190419?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/5473885864072190419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=5473885864072190419' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/5473885864072190419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/5473885864072190419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2007/02/garden-day.html' title='Garden Day!'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115678366657276126</id><published>2006-08-28T16:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-28T16:47:46.590Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Hi, I wanted to give an update on things in the garden.&lt;br /&gt;1. Practical stuff: There's loads of food in the garden at the minute ready to eat, so please call round and harvest some on your way home to dinner. Things that are most abundant are: Potatoes, in the big bed at the back, Lettuce in the bean bed at the back, and parsley dotted everywhere. If you wanted a job to do there's lots of litter, and docks which have gotten really big and could be weeded out. The raspberry canes need cut back, if you have a pair of sccateurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The next Garden day is this Sunday, and apart from food, any tools you can bring along for the day would be appreciated. Especially sacceteurs, a garden fork, a slap hook and a spare spade. We have spades already, but we had a idea we might dig some of the raised beds into the ground, so extras will be useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. We are hopefully going to be included in a map of community gardens and organic producers in Northern Ireland, which is being compiled by NI Environment Link. I'll keep youse updated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. I'm going to be contacting people about a strategy meeting for the Garden sometime soon. It has been suggested that this meeting is small, for the "hard core" gardeners, as smaller meetings are easier to make concrete progress in. Let me know if you'd like to be regularly involved in the garden via a comment to this post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks lots, Hope to see youse all on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOVE! Mims xx&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115678366657276126?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115678366657276126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115678366657276126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115678366657276126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115678366657276126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/08/hi-i-wanted-to-give-update-on-things.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115600256644526084</id><published>2006-08-19T23:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-19T15:49:26.470Z</updated><title type='text'>Come help in our Community Garden !</title><content type='html'>On the 3rd of September (Sunday) we'll be having another gathering in the garden, (see below for map), and would love to see you there. Come help turn compost, prune fruit bushes, cut weeds, pick rubbish, make tea or just sit and chat. Bring sensible shoes, and tools you can carry and a bite to eat and to share, if you can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll probably start at 2pm and wind it up around 7, although if anyone wants to stay and tend a fire, you're more than welcome. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of love, Miriam&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115600256644526084?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115600256644526084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115600256644526084' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115600256644526084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115600256644526084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/08/come-help-in-our-community-garden.html' title='Come help in our Community Garden !'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115428476791473671</id><published>2006-07-30T18:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-30T18:39:27.926Z</updated><title type='text'>Garden day 13th Aug</title><content type='html'>Quick heads up that there's a garden work/ play day on the 13th of august, from 2pm probably. Bring food to share. Love to see you there, whatever you are......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(see map below)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;xxx&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115428476791473671?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115428476791473671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115428476791473671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115428476791473671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115428476791473671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/07/garden-day-13th-aug.html' title='Garden day 13th Aug'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115081910784152592</id><published>2006-06-20T15:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-20T15:58:27.840Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>hi, here are just a few of the photos taken a the garden party last sunday. i'll hopefully be uploading some more soon. thanks to everyone for a lovely day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115081910784152592?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115081910784152592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115081910784152592' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081910784152592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081910784152592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/hi-here-are-just-few-of-photos-taken.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115081877542643760</id><published>2006-06-20T15:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-20T15:52:55.426Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/00020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/320/00020.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115081877542643760?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115081877542643760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115081877542643760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081877542643760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081877542643760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115081857986872055</id><published>2006-06-20T15:39:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-05-26T14:10:04.801Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SDrEsIi1dtI/AAAAAAAAAC8/zaAsxWQId5U/s1600-h/00034+%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SDrEsIi1dtI/AAAAAAAAAC8/zaAsxWQId5U/s400/00034+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204688581866911442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a pretty wallflower discovered by annie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115081857986872055?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115081857986872055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115081857986872055' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081857986872055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081857986872055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/pretty-wallflower-discovered-by-annie.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SDrEsIi1dtI/AAAAAAAAAC8/zaAsxWQId5U/s72-c/00034+%282%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115081787644362496</id><published>2006-06-20T15:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-20T15:37:56.446Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/00075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/320/00075.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dock leaves at one of the entrances to the garden&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115081787644362496?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115081787644362496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115081787644362496' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081787644362496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081787644362496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/dock-leaves-at-one-of-entrances-to.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-115081746209839805</id><published>2006-06-20T15:05:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-05-26T14:07:38.951Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>broom pods&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SDrD1Yi1dsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/y6dlf1RCnQ8/s1600-h/00071+%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SDrD1Yi1dsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/y6dlf1RCnQ8/s400/00071+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204687641269073602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-115081746209839805?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/115081746209839805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=115081746209839805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081746209839805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/115081746209839805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/broom-pods.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DSFTv0HNcAE/SDrD1Yi1dsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/y6dlf1RCnQ8/s72-c/00071+%282%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114993570254198307</id><published>2006-06-10T10:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-10T10:35:02.543Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/DSCF1110.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi, looking forward to seeing yiz all at eglantine community garden tomorrow. We'll be gettting together between 3 and 7 tomorrow, and there's some talk of a fire and music later on. fingers crossed it's sunny!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114993570254198307?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114993570254198307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114993570254198307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114993570254198307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114993570254198307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/hi-looking-forward-to-seeing-yiz-all.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114993538702281107</id><published>2006-06-10T10:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-10T10:29:47.030Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/320/map.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The garden is off the malone road, near queens university in south belfast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114993538702281107?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114993538702281107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114993538702281107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114993538702281107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114993538702281107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/garden-is-off-malone-road-near-queens.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114925619665150197</id><published>2006-06-02T13:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T13:49:56.653Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/wilo%20and%20garden%20019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/320/wilo%20and%20garden%20019.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114925619665150197?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114925619665150197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114925619665150197' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114925619665150197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114925619665150197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/wilo.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114925562068622456</id><published>2006-06-02T13:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T13:40:20.686Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/wilo%20and%20garden%20004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/320/wilo%20and%20garden%20004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;apple blossom, (Orleans Reinette), May 06&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114925562068622456?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114925562068622456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114925562068622456' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114925562068622456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114925562068622456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/apple-blossom-orleans-reinette-may-06.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114925511942025145</id><published>2006-06-02T13:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T13:31:59.430Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/wilo%20and%20garden%20001.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/320/wilo%20and%20garden%20001.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;daisies, May 06&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114925511942025145?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114925511942025145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114925511942025145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114925511942025145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114925511942025145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/06/daisies-may-06.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114891985799776250</id><published>2006-05-29T16:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-29T16:24:17.996Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/DSCF1049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/400/DSCF1049.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loadsa babies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114891985799776250?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114891985799776250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114891985799776250' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114891985799776250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114891985799776250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/05/loadsa-babies.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114891965974298846</id><published>2006-05-29T16:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-29T16:20:59.763Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/1600/DSCF1349.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6890/3071/400/DSCF1349.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lorraine with funny shaped potatos, August 05.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114891965974298846?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114891965974298846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114891965974298846' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114891965974298846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114891965974298846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/05/lorraine-with-funny-shaped-potatos.html' title=''/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28934171.post-114891921151411108</id><published>2006-05-29T16:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-29T16:13:31.516Z</updated><title type='text'>Inviting You to a Summer Garden Party!</title><content type='html'>@ Eglantine Community Garden.&lt;br /&gt;(Between Eglantine Avenue and Malone Avenue off the Malone Road)&lt;br /&gt;From 3pm til 7pm on Sunday 11th June.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to contribute cucumber sandwiches and fairy cakes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bring any vegetable seeds you would like to sow in the vegetable beds or flower seeds you would like to scatter artistically about!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Love&lt;/span&gt; to&lt;/span&gt; see you there!&lt;br /&gt;                              &lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Eglantine Community Gardeners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28934171-114891921151411108?l=eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/feeds/114891921151411108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28934171&amp;postID=114891921151411108' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114891921151411108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28934171/posts/default/114891921151411108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eglantine-community-garden.blogspot.com/2006/05/inviting-you-to-summer-garden-party.html' title='Inviting You to a Summer Garden Party!'/><author><name>M</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06597644374245691612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
